Ah, the Lightning. Ford’s sport truck. I mean, we have the Tremor now, but that’s hardly what I’d call a sports truck. It can handle itself pretty well with a tune, sure, but I don’t think it’ll be as easy to wring big power out of the Ecoboost as it was with the Lightning’s V8. […] More »
By: Marcus Slater | December 18, 2013
The air is rare in Colorado. Where naturally aspirated engines would falter, the boosted Ford F-150s are on nearly equal footing. Nearly. There’s several years of engineering difference between these two, but I’d still anticipate the Lightning pulling the Ecoboost were it stock against stock. It weighs less and superchargers don’t have to build boost […] More »
By: Marcus Slater | November 1, 2013
The Lightning is awesome, obviously, but there’s a stunning shortage of youtube videos of it actually being awesome. We’ve featured a bunch on the site before, but this one somehow slipped under my radar. It’s one of the few dyno videos that I actually cared to watch all the way through. Admittedly, it’s not very long […] More »
By: Marcus Slater | October 30, 2013
The Ford’s got an EcoBoost, and the Ram’s got a Hemi with an exhaust note that will give you a semi. Which one will win the drag race? You’ll have to wait until the end of the video below to find out. Before the drag race, the Ram, F-150 and 2014 Toyota Tundra do some […] More »
By: Manuel Carrillo III | October 7, 2013
Same engine. Different body. Well, there’s a lot different between and Mustang and an F-150, clearly, but there isn’t as big a difference in the quarter miles times as you might think. In this case I think the Mustang might need a driver mod. They should be in the twelves no problem. Still though… I […] More »
By: Marcus Slater | October 2, 2013
Making a truck go fast is a different kind of challenge. Cars are generally built with some concern towards aerodynamics and efficiency. Trucks through? Their purpose is to move heavy things from one place to another safely. Speed is typically not a factor in this equation. It’s for that reason that fast trucks are cool. […] More »
By: Marcus Slater | June 25, 2013
Fact: Drag racing is fun. Fact: Mudding is fun. Combining the two feels like the most natural progression there could ever be. It’s almost as natural as a Ford beating a Dodge in a drag race. BOOM. Seriously though, the lift kit on the F-150 definitely helped out a lot. I don’t doubt that the […] More »
By: Marcus Slater | May 16, 2013
