[Shotimes] cutting vent holes in the header panel

[Kirk Doucette]

Well I just listed one for you on ebay as Police, towing and Taxi :)  Covers
all the bases.. also listed a BOS kit all broken down

Kirk J Doucette
NESHOC President
Stormtrooper-97 White

-----Original Message-----
From: shotimes-admin@autox.team.net [mailto:shotimes-admin@autox.team.net]On
Behalf Of Ron Porter
Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2003 1:03 AM
To: 'Donald Mallinson'; 'Shotimes'
Subject: RE: [Shotimes] cutting vent holes in the header panel

Well, a lot of things were a part of the Police package, and the HD Cooling
- Trailer Towing (now I don't recall if these were one & the same or not)
was just one component.

There are a LOT (well, "were" a lot) of the SLOs with the slotted grill
around Detroit, and a bigger bunch around Louisville. There was even at
least one regular SLO with the grill in the junkyard when I bought my seat
track, but I already had the grill on the '89 and they weren't in short
supply yet. Through the late '90s, I saw more of those grills on SLOs than I
did on SHOs. And I don't recall seeing them on very many police cars,
although IIRC Louisville had a couple of old SLO department cars still
running around.

If someone has one of the old Sales Brochures for Tauri from the '89-'91
era, I'm sure the exact listing of the option will be there.

IMHO, SHO folks called them Police grills, because that sounds better than
the "Taxi" grill or the "Towing" grill!!

Using the grill is a "looks" thing, it's the only reason that I and other
got it in the first place.

Ron Porter

-----Original Message-----
From: shotimes-admin@autox.team.net [mailto:shotimes-admin@autox.team.net]
On Behalf Of Donald Mallinson
Sent: Monday, September 22, 2003 10:39 PM
To: Shotimes
Subject: Re: [Shotimes] cutting vent holes in the header panel


Ron,

Yep, and it WAS part of the police package, so thus not
misnamed.  :)

We had lots of taurus police cars in city and county use in
the midwest.  Although there are few taxi's in our area, so
I never saw one of those, doesn't mean they don't exist.

I would put good money that there are almost NO "heavy Duty
Cooling" Tauri out there, but a LOT of POlice and taxi versions.

IT is named correctly.  I don't remember any definitive
discussion ever that said the "police" grill is misnamed.

Yes, the outer boundry layer may be pushed somewhat over the
hood, but all those bugs that die in the grill and front of
the bumper don't ride in on nothing other than inertia
(which is part of it yes) but there is plenty of air that
hits the grill at speed.  Yes it helps with flow with the
fan at low speed too.

Don Mallinson

Ron Porter wrote:
> Don, go in into the "wayback" machine, this was discussed years ago!!
>
> It is a part of the Heavy Duty Cooling Package on "any" Taurus.....the SHO
> community decided to call it the "police" grill for whatever reason. Yes,
> the Taurus police cars have the HD Cooling package and therefore have the
> grill, but when I lived in Louisville (home to two Ford plants), I saw the
> grill on more taxis and run-of-the-mill SLOs than any police cars (never
saw
> any SLO Police cars around there anyway). It was also a part of the Towing
> package.
>
> The purpose of the grill was to aid airflow at low or "zero" speeds, as
> idling in traffic, and while stressing the engine at lower-speed towing.
> With the aerodynamics of the front bumper, I'll bet that it does about
> nothing at speed for getting in more air, as the bumper will deflect the
air
> up over the hood.
>
> Ron Porter
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