what do you guys think of the Ford Lightning

I was at some street races the other night and there was a Ford Lightning there that was destroying everything anybody else put up against it... so I was just wondering what some of you guys think about the Ford Lightning, like how it is as a "street racer" what kind of mods do people make on them and stuff... I personally think that it is a really great concept to be able to do that in a pickup...

It's good,easy to go fast right to 12 seconds on the 1/4
after that the going gets tougher,it's a:cool: sleeper:D

Im not into trucks.........but to be, well, a truck and pull those kind of numbers........it DEFINATELY has my respect

My friend LOVES them, personally i don't like them but you gotta respect them.

those things are sikkk... they can EASILY hang with a tuned corvette according to the shootout Hot Rod did a few months ago.

I don't mind 'em.
Personally, I like the Dodge Ram SRT-10 that's slated for production next year.

The Lightning is easy to make run 12's, but getting into the 11's is damn hard for 'em.

well considering its about as light and aerodynamic as my house......i think 12s is a great accomplishment, i mean GREAT, and thats an understatement

but the srt is gonna kill it, thats just about all there is to it :D

Its funny how the Lighting is faster then the Mustang (short of the Cobra).

well it better be faster than the cobra if its running 12'3, i have never seen a stock cobra run faster than 13 flat, but still its a bad ass truck!

i just looked up the stats on the lightning, i got them from www.fordlightning.com you may be suprised, 0-60 6.2 sec, 0-100 22.5 sec, 1/4 mile 14.6 @97mph, it pushes 360 hp and 440lb/ft torque. its still good since it wieghs 4,670lbs! so who ever said that they can run 12's is mistaking!

but still, for a truck thats damn good

that thing pulls. very good sleeper. its supercharged too...

he meant modded 12s. truckin mag did a feature on a bunch of them... ran 12s w/ 150 shot of nos and not much else...
14.3 is the best ive seen on a bone stock truck

Actually the NEW Lightning makes 380hp.
So, your magazine is a little off.
They will run the quarter mile in about 13.6 seconds (I've personally seen a '01 Lightning do that)

With a few bolt ons, they will run 12's.

true... mine was the older mag... with the 360hp trucks

however, hypertech is comin out with a power programmer for the 00 lightning, which should make a big difference, as there is not a huge amount of stuff out for those trucks, or so it seems...

Another bad a$$ truck is the chevy xtreme. Some guy in town owns one of them and if i had to get a truck i wouldnt mind one of these :) No idea what kind of 1/4 times they turn in, anyone know where i could look into this?

well considering that i got the figures from the official website www.fordlightning.com, i dont know how i could be off, and thats ford doing the testing that means they know what there talking about plus they use professional drivers for the test, so until you can show me proof and the source that you got your info from, your magazine is alittle off, and that lightning that you saw must had more than just stock!

ok... here we are.
i know my shit. i dont know why you doubt.

oct 2001 sport truck magazine.
www.sporttruck.com
the cover has a note that it has an EXCLUSIVE lightning vs viper shootout... not bad eh? the viper runs 12.84

two stock 01 lightnings
14.27 (first time at track)
14.20

modded
13.91, maf, chip 00
13.23, nitrous 125kit 01
12.91 150hp nitrous kit 01

this is all on an 80something summer day too..


and, there was a prob with the intercoolers on the new ones, so there was a recall, and they are runnin closer to 13.9 stock now.
and ford lightning.com is a lighting website, not ford's site, ford's site is www.svt.ford.com, which is linked directly by clicking on the lightning after you goto www.ford.com, no numbers there, but they have hp and weight... figure it out that way...
or you can check out www.svtoa.com

truckin also has a comparo
it had two stock lightnings that ran 14.3, which, noted in the mag, was lower than ford had previously found for a time.


why do you constantly think my info is wrong?

the numbers of 360 hp are for the Lightnings from 1999 and 2000, in 2001 they upped it to 380 hp so none of your info is wrong, its just from different years...

that i understand...
the numbers i have are all 01s...
the numbers from truckin were possibly 01s, but i cant guarantee it... but the other numbers are from the mag in my hand

tankdawg here's your answer for how fast an extreme is (sept. 2000 Hot Rod) the 0-60 is 8.6 and it ran the 1/4 in 16.8@ 80.6 if you ask me that's pretty shit. when you conciter the price for the truck they tested was about 23k :o that's pretty sad. I like to see them on the street though cause the people who own 'em think they are all fast but sadly they'd probably get smoked by a taurus station wagon :D as for the lightning they are very quick I saw one run a 13.8 at the strip over the summer it had slicks, but didn't look very modded otherwise, but looks can be deceving(sp):)

Do any of you know how good the handling on the Lightning is, somebody was telling me that it has really good handling, but I was kinda doubting that because it IS still a pickup truck, no matter how fast it is...

from what i have seen...
slalom times are pretty quick, 60-0 is pretty good... handling isnt bad... and these are all comments from truckin' mag, from john hotchkis. he would prolly know if it handles good... i would give the reason mostly to the shocks and the big wide sticky 18s...

trucks dont handle that bad...

was that extreme an auto or stick? 4/6 cyl? the 4 is a dog... xcab or regular? those all make a diff...

but that times not far off...

but my 94 s10 v6 stick isnt slow by any means, so a high 15 would be good for mine, but i have different springs...

and, the xtreme (like me) has softer leaf springs, so it really sits the rear tire down so it will spin if the tire is cold... and it goes from spin to wild axle hop really quick...
if you ease into it, my truck, it will light that tire quick and go...

s10s also dont have lsd, which would make a big diff in my opinion...

but even in sport truck's street truck challenge, an s10 reg cab w/ an ls1 w/auto only ran high 14s ish, while a fullsize truck with ls1 and 6spd (reg cab) ran high 13s... doesnt make sense... i think it comes down to weight... too much power and not an efficient means of power transfer... but dont get me wrong, s10s are quick... i have embarassed alot of "badass" cars in a street race... (if i beat em to 40, thats all i meant to do, it doesnt prove much to fly by me if i slow down!!! so if you are ever in cleveland, and line up next to a black s10 with rally stripes, i'll kill ya to 40, or accept my loss i guess... ):licker:

s10 extremes are slow man! i was at the dragstrip and this guy decides he thinks he can whoop my ass so he challenges me. what? challenge ME? in an s-10 with airbags and otherwise stock? wtf was he thinking? people and their station wagon stereotypes i swear! well anyways we lined up and hes laughing at me in the other lane. the light turned green i ran a 12.9 he ran a 14.8, beat him by 2 full seconds and MY CAR WAS NEARLY STOCK!

oh and it was only a 1000ft long track thats how i ran a 12.9, add approx. 2 seconds to get our 1/4 mile times so i ran a 14.9-15.1ish and he ran a 16.8-17.0ish not very quick at all huh? needless to say he wasnt laughing at me anymore when we pulled back around to the pits. :D

ok i looked at all your sites and i did see the 380hp upgrade, but i didnt see were you got your 0-60 and 1/4 mile times?

i didnt give any 0-60 times b/c there werent any

the 1/4 times are from sporttruck.com go back to the oct 01 issue... or get the back issue... or i'll just scan and post later. if its that big of a deal.
the svt.ford.com site has no times from what i've seen... the svtoa.com site might...

Did anybody mention the old GMC Cylcone, or Typhoon?? They were pretty quick also with a 0-60 of 5.6sec VS the 5.8 times of the lightning. They also had a 1/4 of 14.3 at 93 mph VS the lightning 14.4 at 97mph. I got these numbers from http://www.geocities.com/carspecs/carspectop.html

I think they had 289 HP and 350 ft*lb of torque.

well yeah its a big deal when you tell me that im wrong and you cant even give the source to your information. Hey pikachoo how do you put a picture under your name?

Go under edit options in your control panel, select to change your avatar and type the web address of where the pic is at on the web. There is a size limit of course.

was that extreme an auto or stick? 4/6 cyl? the 4 is a dog... xcab or regular? those all make a diff...


the truck in the magazine was and xcab but the make no mention of the motor they did say that the 2.2 4cyl made 120hp and the 6cyl makes 180hp and that it's the engine most buyers get but as for theirs one would hope it's the four, if it's not then thats REALLY sad:)

oops. by the way the first part of that post was a quote from flylwsi but i don't know how to quote people so I just cut and pasted. How do you quote people??

2 ways,

1. Select and copy the text you want to quote, then on the reply page, you can change the vb code to enhanced. With this option enabled, you can just click the quote button, B for bold, I for italicized, U for underline, ect.... then after you past the text in, just click the close current or close all tags button.

2. Do it your self, type {QUOTE} Then put in the text you want to quote(copy and past) then right after the text {/QUOTE}


WHERE i HAVE {} YOU NEED TO PUT [ ] I just used {} because if I used [] it would have just quoted my words instead of showing you how to do it.

good luck

ps. look in the frequently asked and answered questions in your control pannel and there is a detailed thing about all of the available VB code you can use.

i gave no fucking 0-60. find the post that you are talking about and tell me what you are talking about. then we can talk. i dont know what you are talking about. which post. who is in front, and behind, and what number is it that i posted in this thread. so we can get all this figured out. im sick of saying no i didnt, and you not pointing to what i did say.

chill, chill! dont get your pantys in a wad! ok so you didnt post any 0-60 times, but you did post 1/4 mile times and i havent seen any evidence in that either!

the info is in the mag, may not be on the site. maybe i'll scan the pages... go to the library and find the back issues... i'll scan it when i get a chance...

i didnt find my info on the web... i find everything in mags then research on the web...
if you check the older issues, it's there...