How much RWHP/RWTQ are Lightnings pushing and roughly how heavy are they. Curious.............

 

bone stock?? lightly modded?? heavily modded?? with towing package still installed and spare tire on??

A better question to ask is what times do they run? On street tires or drag radials, or slicks. Are they getting traction???

Mine dynoed mine bone stock at roughly 345hp and 450 trq, ill have to check the dyno sheets to confirm, and running 8.9's, a few 8.8's on street tires

then with light mods, plugs, tune, 4# lower, cat back exhaust, heat exchanger I was 398/502, again ill have to check the dyno sheets to confirm, I was running 8.0's in the 1/8th with Hoosier 28/10/16 slicks

now with my wideband and tuning software I dont have any need or reason to get my truck dyoned, and I have added WAY WAY more mods since then, to me the numbers at the end of a track are way more important than hp numbers, and they are a poor representation of the vehicle on the dyno as you would on the street tuning with real time data software

With the new JDM motor and whipple being installed in roughly a month I hope to be in the ball park of 600+ rwhp / ??trq on 93 octane, but once again it wont be tuned on a dyno so I might not ever know what hp it makes

 

Bone stock put down 360/430.

Minor mods and I'm pushing 390/490

I'm probably sitting right around 4500 lbs.

Ran a best of 13.017@107 mph on Street Tires. 8.3@84 on the same pass.

Most times, a Lightning on the street is gonna need some tires on it to be a real threat. However, there are a few of us running around that know how to dead hook on street tires. Cut a best of 1.86 in street trim so far.

 

ooohh. ya i ment stock

 

1999-2000 = 360hp & 430lb-ft
2001-2004 = 380hp & 450lb-ft

 

Yeah, I was talking at the wheels.

 

those #'s are from the crank and factory given, subtract 16%-20% for drivtrain loss and that will give you a ballpark for what it would be to the wheels, plus every truck is different

A buddy who's (screen name Band) had a completely stock 2003 Sonic Blue Lightning and on street tires ran a 13.1 in the 1/4, thats bone stock and on street tires, while I was running 13.5's

 

Most trucks tho only suffer around a 11% loss vs. rating. I take that to mean they're under rated from the factory. With our driveline, there's no way we're only losing 11% btwn the motor and wheels. Like I said, I put down 360 bone stock. That's not even a 10% percent loss, lol.

 

I think I dynoed somewhere around 340 but it's been so long ago I don't even remember.

 

and every truck is different some as just freak trucks from the factory, doing the math mine was around 11% drivetrain loss????