F-150 packs nearly 800 rear wheel horsepower, but it looks like your average Ford truck.
The 5.0-liter V8 engine that has been offered in the Ford F-150 since 2011 is one of the top V8 engines in the segment, but in addition to offering solid power in stock form, the “Ford Five-O” takes well to modifications. Like the Mustang GT powered by a similar V8, the F-150 can quickly be transformed into a high performance machine with the simple addition of forced induction and the video above is an excellent example of the potential gains.
This video comes to us from the YouTube channel of VMPPerformance and it features a 2013 Ford F-150 XLT making a quick run on the rollers and the results are nothing short of awe-inspiring.
The Build
The 2013 Ford F-150 XLT shown here is powered by the 5.0-liter V8, which in stock form back in 2013 offered 360 horsepower and 380 lb-ft of torque. This truck has a built engine with a 10.4-to-1 compression ratio, topped by a VMP TVS Gen 3 2650 supercharger wearing a 69-millimeter pulley and fitted with stainless steel headers. The engine has been tuned to run on VP Fuels MS 109 racing gasoline and a combination of Caltracs traction bars and a set of Nitto 305-50-20 all-terrain tires help get the best possible traction on any driving surface.
Most importantly, while this 2013 F-150 has a built-and-blown V8 engine and custom wheels, it looks like a stock truck. There are no “supercharged” badges or anything suggesting that it has nearly 800 rear wheel horsepower, but it does.
Dyno Action
The video above begins by giving us a quick look at the engine and other key attributes of this sleeper truck, followed by a quick rip on the rollers. The blower whines loudly and the built V8 roars through the custom exhaust as the Nitto tires fight to keep the power to the dyno and when the run ends, the results are incredible.
As you can see in the dyno sheet here, this 2013 Ford F-150 packs 788 horsepower and 706 lb-ft of torque at the rear wheels. Using an 18% drivetrain loss ratio, this half-ton Ford truck could be making somewhere in the area of 960 horsepower and 860 lb-ft of torque at the crankshaft.
In other words, this 2013 Ford truck doesn’t look special, but it can likely hang with a great many sports cars in a heads-up race.
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