F-150 with the 3.5-liter EcoBoost engine, exhaust upgrades and a tune effortlessly roasts the huge rollers.
The Ford F-150 with a stock 3.5-liter EcoBoost V6 will do a nice burnout thanks to all of the turbocharged torque, but like all forced induction engines, there is lots of power to be unlocked with a custom engine tune. The video above comes to us from the SPDPerformance YouTube channel and it shows how well an EcoBoost’d F-150 will roast the tires with some basic upgrades. Even though this truck has huge aftermarket wheels and tires, the added output of the exhaust and tuning upgrades allows it to be a great tire slayer.
Tuned F-150 with Exhaust
The Ford F-150 in the video features the SPD Performance exhaust performance package for the EcoBoost V6. This includes a catless downpipe, a resonator delete pipe, a Corsa catback exhaust system and the items needed to bolt this system up to the truck. This setup allows the boosted V6 engine to breathe a little easier and with a proper tune, that leads to more power.
Fortunately, this F-150 has been tuned by Brew City Boost, and while we don’t know the resulting numbers, we know that this half-ton Ford is making more horsepower and torque than it did when stock. That is good, as with the big, heavy aftermarket wheels and wide, low-profile tires, it takes more power than usual to roast the rears, but this F-150 puts on a great smoke show.
All Sorts of Smoke
The video above begins with the tuned Ford F-150 smoking the rear tires. At first, the rear end walks out to the driver’s side and there isn’t much smoke, but once the driver lets the truck creep forward, the burnout intensifies. As the tires spin more easily, we can hear the engine rev higher, leading to more tire smoke until the rev limiter is hit, at which point the EcoBoost engine backfires and spits out a puff of black smoke.
This diesel-like black soot is caused by the ignition cutting out when the rev limiter is hit, causing some gasoline to make it to the exhaust where it ignites and shoots out as a cloud of super-rich soot. However, the F-150 is completely fine from this routine backfire, so crank up your speakers and enjoy!
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