F-150 with Twin-Turbo Coyote V8 is a 10-second Truck
Ohio shop adds a twin-turbo setup and boost to create a Ford F-150 FX4 that can outrun a 2020 Mustang Shelby GT500.
A vehicle’s quarter mile time isn’t the end-all-be-all measure of its performance, but it’s still a widely used way of getting an idea of how quick a performance machine is. When Ford was building up excitement over the 2020 Ford Mustang Shelby GT500, it said it was going to be capable of completing the quarter mile in under 11 seconds. According to Motor 1, that time is actually 10.7 seconds. Achieving a time that low is no easy feat, but it helps when you start with a low-slung, aerodynamic sports car with a quick-shifting dual-clutch gearbox. But what if you’re trying to do the same with a two-door pickup truck? Here’s a tip: Start off by stuffing a twin-turbo Coyote V8 under its hood.
That’s what the crew at On 3 Performance, a tuning shop based in Westerville, Ohio, did in their pursuit of increasingly lower times at the Marion County Raceway in La Rue, Ohio. A man who goes by the name Martin, the host of the YouTube channel Drag Racing and Car Stuff, caught up with the owner of On 3, Chad Roberts, and his company’s ferocious F-Series.
It’s a blue single-cab F-150 XL with a short bed and the FX4 off-road suspension package. If you were to see a truck matching that description on the street, you’d think nothing of it.
But the wheels and tires on On 3’s truck are a dead giveaway that it’s not a regular F-150. That becomes crystal clear when you look under the hood. Martin asks Roberts, “What all’s done to this thing?” If you have even the most rudimentary knowledge of modified vehicles, you know the answer to that question is going to have multiple parts. Roberts’s response is no exception.
He tells Martin, “Stock [Coyote V8] engine, stock trans right now. ’18 Mustang intake manifold. Has the On 3 production twin[-turbo] kit.” That includes “67[-millimeter] billet ball bearing turbos.” Other performance upgrades include an E85 conversion and a modified fuel system.
Those parts pack one hell of a punch. They keeping knock chunks off of the F-150’s times. At the end of the first run, On 3’s truck clocks a 10.51-second quarter mile at 134.79 mph. The time stays roughly the same while the trap speed goes down to 133.98 mph the second time through. Roberts wants to nail down a 10.4 with his third blast down the strip, but he doesn’t – he gets an even better time of 10.37 seconds at 135.10 mph. His numbers at the end of his fourth trip down the 1,320-foot testing ground don’t change much. For his fifth and final run, Roberts decides to crank up the twin-turbo boost. Despite the fact that the F-150’s rear tires aren’t the width of a Honda Civic, they still manage to put down the extra oomph effectively. That hardworking rubber and the additional PSI help On 3’s F-150 absolutely fly through the quarter mile in 10.25 seconds at 138.04 mph.
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