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	Even though a heavy front-wheel-drive sedan is far from the ideal drag-racing platform, the SHO is a fairly capable drag-strip racer in stock form. This page is dedicated to showing the drag racing results obtained by various SHOtimers in their cars. Compare to magazine numbers, if you dare.
1995 5-speed	Owner: Tom Birchard Car: 1995 5-speed, all options Modifications: K&N air filter Date and location: July 11, 1996 Milan Dragway, Milan, MI Weather: 84 deg F to 74 deg F Tires: Started with BFG Comp T/A R1 225/50-16, ended with BFG Comp T/A ZR 225/50-16 The graph below shows the results of Tom's 24 full runs, plotted as 1/4 mile ET vs. 1/4 mile trap speed. He had a best of 14.9@94.7mph, with 17 of the runs at 15.3 or quicker.
NE Dragway, 5-speed	15.9 @ 92 mph 16.4 @ 89 mph 15.6 @ 92 mph
Vito's Sable SHO	Modifications: Pro-M 77mm MAF, Very High Flow Cats, Mike Wesley LPM 15.21 @ 94 mph
N2O SHO	Modifications: Nitrous Oxide 14.8
1st Generation SHO	Owner: Mike Wesley Modifications: Dual 2.25" exhaust, catless, Pro-M 77mm MAF, custom programming,underdrive pulleys, retuned intake, lightened to 3090 lbs. with driver. 13.33 @ 111 mph
1993 Automatic	Owner: Brett Russo Car: 1993 Automatic Modifications: Poor man's ram air, 73mm MAF, SuperChips, Dynomax cat-back exhaust Location: Moroso, FL Weather: 72 degrees <d valign=top>0.735 Reaction time 60 ft. time 330 ft. time 1/8 mile 1000 ft. time 1/4 mile 2.459 6.782 10.281 @ 70.62 13.278 15.811 @ 88.98 1.122 2.310 6.612 10.114 @ 70.53 13.114 15.652 0.598 2.388 6.649 10.100 @ 71.39 13.061 15.573 @ 89.24
1992 5-speed	Owner: Tom Kay Modifications: No performance modifications Date and location: May 1, 1996, Bandimere Speedway, Morrison, CO Elevation: 5,280 ft. above sea level Time Temp Humidity 1/4 mile 5:37pm 60 40% 16.901 @ 83.97 5:48pm 60 41% 17.078 @ 84.38 6:03pm 60 41% 17.440 @ 84.32 6:44pm 58 46% 17.047 @ 84.27 7:05pm 57 46% 17.000 @ 84.30
Ted Breaux's Car	Modifications: too many to list Stopwatch timings: 0-60 in 5.96 seconds, 0-100 in 13.66 seconds
Hans Kaspersetz	89 with underdrive pullies, K&N conical air filter,cat-back exhaust (no resonator and two-chamber lowmasters). Temperature was 85 degF. 15.001 sec. at 95 mph.
Frank Hynson	Ford Day at 75-80 Drag-A-Way in Urbana, Maryland. Temps rising in the upper 60's or lower 70's, with low humidity. With the exception of replacement fluids and a great custom stereo, everything on my '94 5-speed SHO is bone stock. On the way home, I passed the 49k mark on the odometer. It wears Dunlop SP4000s with pretty good tread left after 13k miles of use. The tank carried about 11 gallons of 93 octane "no-name" fuel. Run #1 Run #2 Run #3 Reaction time 1.1150 :-( 0.7154 0.7776 60 ft. 2.6774 2.5397 2.4167 1/8 mile 10.8038 10.1755 10.1032 1/4 mile ET 16.2802 15.6339 15.5390 1/4 mile speed 90.5616 90.8148 90.9850
Mike McElree	I own a 1989 SHO with 129,000 miles on it. I took it to the local drag strip in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada and recorded the following times. Keep in note I had no real idea how to launch the car on a drag strip, I'm used to 4000rpm launches on the street: 17.141 @ 87.846mph, 4000prm launch, .198sec reaction 17.249 @ 87.657mph, 4000rpm launch, .132sec reaction 15.772 @ 88.828mph, 2000rpm launch!!!, .669sec reaction!!!!! 18.508 @ 86.082mph, 2000rpm launch, .324sec reaction (forgot where second gear was!!!) Weather was a cloudy day, about 78F. No modifications have been made to car as far as I know, since I've only owned the car for 5,000 miles. It redlines at 7800 rpm, so it seems to redline higher than car magazine tests (7200 rpm).
Brent Kanon	Here is my best time with my 1989 SHO. Mods were Vortech Supercharger 14psi. C&L 73mm mass air. C&M Racing chip. Stock Y-pipe. Stock Exhaust. Environmental conditions: Temp 52&ordm; F Relative Humidity 72% Elev. 5280 + 1/4 mile Results: 13.599 sec. @ 101.17 MPH
Randy McCante	Proving that even a Gen 3 SHO can race, here's some commentary by Doug Lewis on a fast '97. Randy McCante owns a red '97 SHO that I modified to go dragracing. Randy brought me his car and wanted a nitrous system installed so that he could go street racing back home in New Orleans. I did a bunch of things to the car including a 120hp dry manifold system and line locks. Randy took his car to the strip and ripped off some incredible times. RT 60ft ET MPH .568 2.07 13.67 102.8 .602 2.09 13.69 102.1 .603 2.11 13.71 101.8 .606 2.10 13.76 101.6 The car works great. You switch the system on by flipping two switches. One for the nitrous and the tranny modification (I substitute a 10 ohm resister for the EPC circuit, this makes the tranny run at max line pressure), the other is for the computer chip. The chip has two programs, one for street and one for nitrous. On the street side, the engine management is set for max performance. With good timing and fuel maps for power and performance. The nitrous side takes a ton of timing out to keep the motor safe under fire. It also runs the motor rich and shortshifts the tranny a couple of hundred rpm. The nitrous system is a NOS Dry manifold system pilled for 120hp. This much bottle requires a lot more fuel. For this, I installed a 190lph Motorsports pump in the tank. I also have the system tied into the line locks and a timer relay. After the switches are flipped, you purge the system and do your burnout. Then pull into the beams for the start, step hard on the brakes and push the button. This engages the line locks and stages the nitrous system. When the lights come down, you let off the button and the car takes off. Then about half a second later the nitrous comes in and the car makes a move that is impressive. The tranny shifts hard and positive like a performance car, not a sedan (too bad it can't do that on the street). I've probably had the most experience in destroying motors on the bottle. I took that in mind when I did this car. I made sure to take enough timing out of the nitrous side of the chip, while giving the motor enough fuel. I also installed straight copper plugs(that was a *****) because nitrous doesn't like platinum. So far, Randy has run about 50lbs of nitrous thru the car and it has been flawless. It hasn't skipped a beat. I was able to drive the car while it was in my car and now have a new respect for the car. It handles like mine and is as fast as mine on the motor.We raced from Atlanta to Commerce (where the track is) and I've never had anyone eat my ass at 150mph before like Randy in his '97. That car is fast and I'll have one at some point. Here's a list of mods: Red '97 SHO w/3.4L V-8 Enki 16x8's with 225/50ZR16 BF Goodrich Comp TA's Lowered suspension and FPS Grooved rotors Conical K&amp;N Filtercharger bolted straight to the stock 80mm MAF Custom switchable SuperChips chip with two programs one for street and one for nitrous Borla cat-back with the post converter removed Motorsports 190lph in-tank pump 120hp NOS Dry Manifold system Remote bottle opener and a bottle heater
1994 ATX JOHN APOSTOLOS	A BEST OF 14.9 @ 92 MPH AT NEW ENGLAND DRAGWAY IN EPPING NH. MY EMAIL ADDRESS IS BOSSSHO@AOL.COM, THE FOLLOWING ARE THE LIST OF MODs DONE TO MY SHO.... SUSPENSION: 96 brake upgrade sub frame connectors aluminum/polyurethane bushings kit all around BFG 215/VR60 COMP TA'S all around Eibach springs 95 Strut upgrade (HORRIBLE) PERFORMANCE weight reduction by stripping off any unnecessary parts to race tape headlight slits for max aerodynamics 25 PSI/front 45 PSI/rear tires to race Home made RAM air, going into the can, going into a home made K&amp;N conical setup going into a Cobra 70mm MAF, going into the stock intake... exiting into Y-pipe, Dynomax exhaust. Superchips Chip. Underdrive pulleys 104 Octane Boost (TRACK ONLY)