Originally Posted by hellbound F-150

Yeah, if you have a screw model, it will be crappy. However, if you decide to boost....it is worth it.

Whipple got a 2004 Supercab 2WD Lariat w/ 3.55's and stock 32.70" tires on 18" wheels to click off a 14.2 1/4 ET WITH wheel spin on an installed Whipple supercharger system and a tune.

Thank the 3 valve system for that. These engines will see far greater gains on boost than any competitor truck out there.

BTW, my truck bone stock ran a 15.3@90mph when it was new. No mods at that time. At this time I am still naturally aspirated and easily pulling off low 14's at the track with spin.

All in all, I have 1700.00 in mods put into my truck. I special ordered it with a Reg Cab Short Bed, 5.4L 3V, 3.73LS diff on a baseline model. No power anything. I paid a total of 18,995.00 sale price. After rebates and trade in of my 98 F150 (perfect condition) I financed 12,345.00 for my truck.

Since then I purchased a set of Lariat wheels on ebay for 250.00 and installed all of my mods, lowered it for 135.00 on a 2/3 drop and it looks killer. $$$ isnt always the issue unless you want TV's, big stereo, captains chairs and yadda, yadda, yadda.

Originally Posted by RamSS/T

No whats lame is spending $1000s of dollars on a truck (to make it faster) that by its nature is not fast. His question was directly related to performance acceleration...0-60. If you "shaved" .5 second off the 0-60 on these trucks 80% of the cars on the road will still out run it. Look at it this way...you bought the truck for something besides it speed and performance (you had to have or you would have went with another choice...probably a car). Spend your money to make what you liked about the truck to start with better. Its ok to do performance mods to help it out but dont expect their to be a magic pill that makes your truck a sports car.

Originally Posted by GB150

My wifes 4 banger Camry will smoke these trucks and that car surely isn't a racing machine. I was driving the Camry one day I raced a Screw w/a 5.4 from a stop light just for giggles. He didn't have a chance. My 4.6 wouldn't even have done that well.

Originally Posted by emmo2

No, T-Bird I really wasn't referring to you. I guess it kind of looked that way because you had shared a racing story with us right before my post. No, like I said in my post, I wasn't referring specifically to anyone here. We cool???

I was mostly referring to "that one guy" at work (c'mon, you all know him) Who swears his Fart-Piped Civic took a new Vette or Lightning or something stupid like that.

And yes, my best buddy thinks his 94 Trans Am is obviously THE fastest car in town....His mod list consists of a K&N filter. That's it.

Originally Posted by hellbound F-150

There a few guys I know in the high 13's with 4.10 gears installed on NA motors. My truck only weighs 4656lbs at the track minus me. So, add 240lbs and you got a 4896lb race weight.

I dyno'd 280HP at the wheels and 340 ft lbs TQ. I have slips and all that too. I even have video of me stomping a Reg Cab Short Bed 2WD Hemi. Nice !!!

These trucks easily are capable of mid 14's without boost. Once I strap on some P.S.I I hope to see high 12's.

But keep in mind right now I have alot of bolt ons-

Airaid intake (fully insulated)
Magnaflow exhaust (rear cats removed)
Underdrive pullies
Excalibrator tuner set to 96 octane race tune
Electric fans
Plasma Ignition Booster
Ram Air tube (homemade)

So, not even close to stock. Oh, plus I have downsized tires at 28.8 inches which gives me a final drive ratio of 3.92 !!!