318 Factory Four BBL Intake Manifold

Right, our South Los Angeles California Highway Patrol office had a small fleet of 'em (and one 5.0 Mustang manual transmission). The Diplomats were slow as mud. No where near the balls of the earlier Dodge Polara 440's. I was a CHP officer there in 1983.

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My old partner and I were sitting in operator shack one day and hear an odd but very familiar noise :wtf:. We go outside to the street and see one of those CHP Rustangs, in private sector form, just absolutely roasting the tires just outside the fence :eek:. We had no trucks to load so we watched for a while. Driver makes numerous smokey passes past us and eventually stops to talk. He had opened a business in town developing and selling a centrifugal blower system for those FI 302s and the surplus Mustang was his test bed. He was marketing it towards the law enforcement entities that were using them at the time and of course hot rodders. Even with the boost he said it met the smog laws at the time after some tweaking on the ECU.