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Lawman: I had a 85 Ford Crown Vic/Take home car with that VV carb. It was a serious dog. It topped out at 95 MPH and got 10 MPG on the highway.
Actually it was probably a good thing that it wouldn't go fast because it also had puny brakes.
After a few years the city finally pulled all the VV carbs out the remaining fleet and put in an aftermarket 4 bbl. The fuel savings alone paid for the modifications.
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I don't know, my experience was different. I had 2 Police package CVc ( a 1981 and a 1988). I got pulled over in the 88'at 115mph with the AC on max and the speedo still on the increase  This was with about 80k on the odometer.
My younger brother smacked the 81' up bad but it was still rock solid at 95 mph +- This was with a huge dent in the rear quarter panel a trunk that wouldn't close and a tweaked frame. I drove it for a year like that until I bought the 88.
They were pigs off the line but had a good pull from 35mph on up. Passing gear was outstanding. In contrast I had almost the same setup in a couple of Police package 5.7 Caprices a 1986 and 1989 and they were much better from light to light but didn't have great top ends. Don't really recall the gear ratios?
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(Fellow)Lawman. I find it amazing, but believable, that you had a good experience with those VV carbs.
I will file it away under the "Alaska Exception" to "what works". I don't suppose you ever tried to turn one of those things over at -38F???
We ran short shifts and tied up every wrecker in town on the first real cold night those cars were on the street.
Even the Chief and D/Chief didn't make it to work. I can just see them standing in the driveway, in ill fitting parkas, shivering, ordering those cars to start......
Well I guess there is SOMETHING funny to take away from all those years.........
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Well I never really had to run them in cold weather. In those days I lived in the Brooklyn, NY so didn't even have the colder temp. of my current location let alone yours
I know that Ford also had the 5.0 liter setup and that was a real pig. Can't explain why mine ran well though, there were only minor modifications from the standard vehicle. Ford use to list a 5.7 and a 5.7 HO engine but I don't think there was too much HP diff. The only thing I can think is maybe a diff. computer program?
-37 degrees huh? Man you don't want a foot post do you???? Heck, I was a Bike Sergeant for awhile, ouchhhhh!
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Yes. I walked a beat for 15 years. I had a rule: if the dopers and the whores could stand it so could I.
I never saw a day too cold to keep them off the street corners, so I went out to play too.
The sarge gave me grief for turning in tickets written in pencil until he figured out that ball point pens don't work much below 0 degrees.
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Well I would rather be walking in the cold than the heat. All that gear and vest is terrible in the 90+ days. Now -38 might be pushing it 
I worked and mostly walked in NYC and walking is probably faster anyway many times Surely it's leess frustrating than dealing with traffic.
Man we hijacked this thread I was just thinking with all the new pickups out there we are all spoiled. They are so powerful that when people ask if an older vehicle is good enough to pull a load the reaction is negative. With the 320+ hp dieslels with 560 lbs of torque we're driving vehicles that would have been pulling rigs not too many years ago! People were getting by pulling trailers for years with small V-8s with 200hp and now we all want 300 hp in our 1/2 ton pickups just to tool around town.
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My 92 GMC does OK as I said before. I don't go fast partly because of idiot drivers and partly because I don't have a brake controller in that truck for the brakes on the trailer. I think that the GMC 5.7 gas engine in 92 was rated for 225 HP or so. This is not a hot rod; just a good reliable truck that always seems to be ready when I need it to do some work.
For perspective, I did tow a Baja race car halfway across the US with an 82 Toyota SR5 4X4 pickup truck. I think that the speed limits were 55 MPH back then. It is probably a good thing, because I don't think that I could have gone much faster.
The Toy could not have been doing much more than 120 HP, but it was pretty tough. It survived three Baja races as a chase truck running on the course with the big boys. But it is not a good tow vehicle.
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