Jon Moore’s 8-Second Lifted Crown Vic Is The Ultimate Street Sleeper

The drag-and-drive scene is filled with non-traditional race cars, and that’s what makes it cool. If you’re going to stand out in that crowd, you’d better have something that’s pretty radical. Jon Moore took that challenge head-on and, in the process, built the world’s quickest and fastest Ford Crown Victoria.

Jon is no stranger to drag racing and the high-performance world. The owner of Moorseed Performance has been racing for the better part of two decades. He first cut his teeth in the front-wheel-drive racing world behind the wheel of a 1,000+ horsepower Dodge Neon.

After a nasty crash claimed the soul of his Neon, Jon decided to move on to another project. A 2011 Crown Victoria fit the bill for Jon’s plan, but it wasn’t originally intended for drag racing.

“We started doing some off-road racing with the HooptieX series and events like the Gambler 500. That was a lot of fun. It’s really similar to drag-and-drive events in the sense that you’re driving around, checking out unique places in the middle of nowhere, and doing a little racing here and there.

We used to race this thing off-road on short-course dirt tracks. At one of the LS Fest events, where they had the off-road experience set up, we started talking to some of the Holley guys and asked how they’d feel about us doing a drag-and-drive event with it. They were all about it, and that kind of sparked the whole thing,” Jon says.

So Jon put a Turbo 400 transmission behind the six-liter LS engine, added a turbo kit, and the Crown Vic ripped off a 9.97 elapsed time while still rocking its off-road stance. The Crown Vic’s epic look comes from a set of 31-inch-tall tires up front and a 29-inch-tall Mickey Thompson slick on the rear. A Donk two-inch lift kit launches the front and rear of the Crown Vic into the sky.

The suspension setup on the car is actually very traditional. Up front, the Ford retains OEM control arms, knuckles, and brakes. Viking Performance coilover shocks were added to help the car perform at the track. In the rear, you’ll find a Ford 8.8 rearend filled with parts from Strange Engineering that also uses Viking coilover shocks. Stock control arms were kept on the Crown Vic.

Under the hood, Jon kept things brutally simple with the boosted LS combination, and it works extremely well.

“The whole engine combination basically came from Brian Tooley Racing. One year, we blew up a motor and needed a replacement quickly, so we picked one up Friday, installed it Saturday, and raced Sunday. This car has a 427 cubic-inch short-block from Brian Tooley Racing, along with Trick Flow cylinder heads supported by Brian Tooley. It also has a custom Brian Tooley camshaft with shaft-mount rockers,” Jon explains.

A Precision Turbo & Engine turbo provides the boost through the custom turbo kit that Jon built himself. Behind the engine is a Turner Racing Transmissions Turbo 400 that’s matched with a torque converter from Turner. A Holley Dominator ECU controls the entire package.

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The Crown Vic weighs just over 4,200 pounds, and this engine combination makes around 1,800 horsepower. Jon ran a new personal best at Sick Week 2026 with an 8.07 at over 170 mph. Let that sink in, a two-ton passenger car with a lift kit is nearly running seven-second passes in the quarter mile. Wild stuff.

When Jon says the Crown Vic is a streetcar, he’s not joking. Last year, he competed in five drag-and-drive events. The car racked up nearly 8,000 miles while pulling a trailer and making eight-second passes.

Moore continues to refine his Crown Vic with the goal of making that first seven-second pass. When he does light the board with that magic number, it will be thanks to a lot of effort, testing, and the will to make a car do something it clearly shouldn’t be doing.