I figured they were 33" tires?? (285's was my guess..) But, I do like that look a whole bunch better then something lifted to the stars with those 'wagon wheel' wheel/tire combos on them!

Is this "6.2L" engine just a bigger displacement 5.4? Now, I'd like to have one of those to TOW with!

Mitch

 

Nah, those are 35's , they confirmed in the video - BF's I think.

The 6.2L their calling a Boss Motor. Not sure what's boss ? I guess that would be the numbers it makes - 400hp and 400 + ftlbs.

TOW with ? Hell, you could pull tree trucks from the ground or maybe move the neighbors house further down the block. - Now I have to have it, it's versatile

 

paschal performance has had a 6.2 kit out for a while...

 

I think they went above and beyond with this truck and I mean that in a good and a bad way. It is nice they put that much R&D into the truck but I think the prices is going to be so high that the people that could afford it will not realy uses it for other then a show peice or mall crawler. I would have rather then them go a route like dodge did with the Power Wagon, hell if the would have just put a solid axle under the front it would have been nice. If they would have put that much money inot the lightning I would probibly have bought one insted of my truck.

 

When did Ford bring back plans for the 6.2 cause last I heard or read bout it was dropped back in the summer when the price of gasoline was so high???

 

The main intent of this truck is to be a high speed off roader, able to take high speed ruts & bumps @ 90 MPH! Your solid front axle design would fall out of the truck in no time with that kind of abuse!............

 

i agree w/ risupercrewman... Independent front suspensions have been proven to do better in desert offroading than solid front axles. despite all the bitching about IFS on this site, and elevation of SFA, IFS does have some advantages over SFA suspension.

 

Of course it's new!! They are sweet. I checked one out at the SEMA show and they are very beefy trucks!!

 

Then why does everyone who wants to take a 3/4 ton truck and run baja that does not have an endless budget run dodge and ford with SFA. Now I understand why IFS is used with the high budget because of the amout of travel you can get. But how many of us have the money to go out and higher a race crew and go run baja where the truck is ment for. But the kinda off roading that I do in the woods and tight areas the flex of SFA would seem to benifet me more. Also they are cheaper and easer to lift. Not to mention as coil spring SFA truck can ride just as nice as ours. I just sucks that factorys put a crapy set of leaf springs under SFA and makes them ride like crap which makes IFS look good. If someone would take the time to make a good set of leaf springs it would not be as much of a problem. It is proven that you can get leaf sprung vehicles to ride nice, look at the 04 to 07 F150 which where told to be some of the best riding leaf sprung vehicles.

 

don't mean to take away from this site - but my friend who runs the Ford GT site also opened up the Raptor site.... It is frequented by SVT designers that work on the Raptor.

http://www.raptoroffroad.com/forums/index.php

 

Nice site! But man, I can't believe some of those Fox racing questions lol. Fox has been around for decades - Hell, they were making piggy back (reservoir) shocks back in the 80's.

Moto-X-Fox is Fox, a family business. Maybe I should post that over there ehh.

 

So this 6.2L is for real now?? Please tell me so

They are going to put it in other applications aren't they, to compete with Dodge and GM??

 

Mostly SuperDuty applications!.......Instead of the V-10 Triton!........

 

And the 7.0L 700hp @7000rpm ones that Jack Roush has.

 

i was lookin at some videos on youtube and this truck has 8 to 9000 dollars worth of shock absorbers on so i was also thinkin around the 50k range