Driving down 45 today and an american ricer is whizzing through traffic with his 4 foot wing and coffee can exhaust, whizzes pass a mustang at about 80 or 85, mustang jumps up next to him and starts hopping, he backed down REAL quick and got in the right hand lane and through it into cruise control. So mustang speeds away. I'm cruising along at about 70 when a new scsb ford truck rolls up next to me with an exhaust and the "Triton 5.4" emblem on the side and starts reving. I motion with my hand and he hammers it, I gave him a WHOLE truck length before I hammered mine but when I did, I flew past him so fast he didn't even get a chance to see me waving!(that upset me) But needless to say he saw nothing but 2 things, CHEVROLET SILVERADO across the tailgate until I guess his shut down at 100mph. The little guy was trying though, I will give him that......I slowed down to give him a chance to catch up for another run, but everytime I would slow down or hit my breaks, so would he....so I never got another chance before I had to exit.....Those things must be DOG ! It was fun though! (plus when he was next to me. I think he had his girl with him)

 

good kill, dont know much about the triton, but at least it was cool he raced you. I been out of business for about a month, took the nitrous system off and am waiting for my swap in a little over a week. Hopefully after that and geter up and running good, Ill have a few stories of my own.

 

Nice Kill. It seems like like the 5.4 doesn't put as much power to the ground as a 5.3. I could be mistaken, but I can always take them. I am starting to wonder how many more of these my 5.3 can take.

 

Try runnin this type of 5.4.

 

Yeah that sounds like a fair race. I will get my Vette out of the garage and you can try and race that. What I meant was the auto's in behind the 5.4, not the blown lightning engine btw, seem like they dont get as much power to the ground as the 4L60E does. More loss of power through drive train.

 

Nice Kill! For whatever reason my buddys Z71 5.3 EcSb couldnt take down a F150 2wd EcSb at the track!
if the vette is stock Id say the lightning can take it or at least a good race!

 

I know.I was just messing around.The F150s aren't set up to be fast.They're set up to pull.I think it's safe to say as far as trucks go Chevy and Dodge are far more performance oriented.As far as your Vette goes if it's stock and we went from a dig I'd probably get ya up to about 70.Then again you're putting a sports car against a truck.

 

Are they ever going to produce a Lightning in the new body style? That would be a sweet ride.

 

From what it sounds like SVT is totally gone.Supposedly the Lightning and/or Cobra were just put on hold for a while but now it's hard to say.It sounds like the GT500 will replace the SVT Cobra.

 

That sucks. Maybe Roush will get serious and build a truck that has more than basic mods.