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White-Hot; SVT's Lightning bolts with more power.(Ford)(Brief Article)
How do you improve the hottest sport truck on the market? Give it more power, of course.
Not that the Ford Special Vehicle Team's F-150 Lightning needed any more. Last year it pumped out 360 hp and 440 lb-ft of torque from its supercharged 5.4-liter V8. Ford claimed then that those numbers were good for a 6.2-second 0-to-60-mph dash and a 14.6-second quarter-mile at 97 mph. Apparently, blindingly fast wasn't good enough (blindingly for a 4670-pound truck, that is).
By enlarging the air inlet path of the engine, SVT upped those figures for 2001, to 380 horsepower at 4750 rpm and 450 lb-ft at 3250 rpm. According to SVT, the Lightning should now be good for a 5.8-second 0-to-60-mph and 13.9-second quarter. But after several attempts during AutoFile testing, we couldn't crack either the six- or 14-second mark.
Several factors contributed to our slower times. The track surface didn't allow the Lightning's Goodyear Eagle F1-GS P295/45ZR-18s to lay down a good patch of rubber. Instead it caused the tires to send up a shower of dust, clearly losing power in the process. Also the boost gauge never indicated more than 8 psi, though the supercharger should have produced up to 10 psi. The ``greenness'' of the engine may have contributed to the lower boost, as the odometer read only 853 miles when we received the truck. Finally, a high track temperature called for long cool-downs between runs, proving the truck was touchy ...
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