93 V-R4 Vs. Ford Lightning

99GSR · #1 08-11-2003, 12:51 AM

The reason i'm asking this question is because my uncle has a 93 V-R4 and the other day he let me take it for a test drive I couldn't belive how fast the car was it pushed me back into the seat every time i hit the gas anyway this guy in a 02 Ford Lightning told me he could smoke me in the V-R4 who do you think would win? both cars are bone stock.

Trogdor · #2 08-11-2003, 11:49 AM

VR-4 easy!!! granted for a truck, the lightening is incredibly fast, but... it just isnt faster than the VR-4! thats all there is too it! VR-4 has it beat in 0-60 times and in 1/4, and in top speed!! now this guy was prolly just doin the ussual ford owner thing and talkin shit about his car that is nowhere near reality, so u cant realy blame him... its like an unwritten law... if u own a ford u gatta talk stupid shit about ur car that it and u cant hope to back up in reality... lol but yeh dude... VR-4 all the way! unless there's something mechanically wrong with it, or u just plain cant drive, u should win.

YogsVR4 · #3 08-11-2003, 01:09 PM

Stock to stock, mod to mod, the VR4 should win hands down. These two are close enough that an inexperienced driver vs someone who knows their ride inside and out could have a different outcome, but the VR4 is the faster ride.

blasian_man · #4 08-11-2003, 01:12 PM

lightnings only come in auto right?

YogsVR4 · #5 08-11-2003, 04:18 PM

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Originally posted by blasian_man
lightnings only come in auto right?

The 2003 models only came with an auto. I've never seen any model with a manual, but I can't say they never did.

Trogdor · #6 08-12-2003, 11:44 AM

they dont make them in automatics. now i cant say that there are none, because its always possible someone did the work themselves and made it one, but i know from the factory they didnt make anything but automatics. (<- turd of a car! what kinda perfomance car only comes in automatic.... thats ford for ya!)

96talontsi · #7 08-12-2003, 02:41 PM

i think it would be a good race even though i am leaning more to the vr4 because of the advantage of 6 speed all wheel drive vs. auto 2wd and the 867 pounds in diff between the 2 cars... but look at it this way the lightning has 380hp and 450lb/ft stock and the vr-4 has 300hp and 307lb/ft stock.... but i still think that it would be a great race.. one i wouldnt mind seeing...

m3mark · #8 08-17-2003, 03:21 AM

Im a big fan of the 3kgt [I have 2] but a bone stock lightning can run 13.4 with the right weather. Thats faster then a stock 3kgt. But then again it all depends track conditions ect. Overall the 3kgt rapes the ford in every catagory but 1/4 too close to call.

m3mark · #9 08-17-2003, 03:26 AM

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Originally Posted by Trogdor

they dont make them in automatics. now i cant say that there are none, because its always possible someone did the work themselves and made it one, but i know from the factory they didnt make anything but automatics. (<- turd of a car! what kinda perfomance car only comes in automatic.... thats ford for ya!)

You do realize that the lightning is not a car, it is a truck. Every model lightning is a A4 trans. If there was an manual in the truck you would be twisting driveshafts and breaking rears all the time. The A4 is more consistent and offers better traction for pulling loads because one more time, this is not a performance car but a truck....

500hpvr4 · #10 08-17-2003, 05:35 PM

I raced a modded lightning, he had a pulley and intake and I dont know what else. He claimed 500hp. I had a 5.5k launch and took him hard off the line I held him till I hit 4th when he started to catch up. I put on the brakes before he caught up. lol.

He was very fast!

If you dont bog your launch, you got him. Have you learned how to launch yet? Its not so easy.

Good luck and keep us posted.

Trogdor · #11 08-18-2003, 12:32 PM

yeh man i realize the lightening is a truck... not a car! (i live in Texas, so trucks are more common than cars! lol) but the track tests on the lightening that i have seen say its only a 13.62 truck. now granted for a truck thats fast as snot!! but not as fast as the VR-4! and next, when has any ford lived up to its claimed capabilities??? perfect example... any mustang 80's and up! now if u like fords im sorry, but im anti-ford! and again if u dissagree or happen to like fords, then i apologize! but yeh i def. agree with ya that the VR-4 rapes it! and as if u didnt already know, nothing ford will every messure up to that Z06 when u get it!!! those things are so badass its not funny! and 500hpvr4, nice kill man!! i dont think he woulda passed u tho... pulled closer, but i dont think he woulda overtaken ya...it couldnt on the slightly modded Trans-Am i raced one in, so i would think that he wouldnt have actually overtaken ya. but granted i dont know what ur guy had in it so... but he would still "just have a fast piece of sh*t"!-m3mark! (lol thanx man, no hard feelings, and sorry again if u like the lightening) but still... nice kill man! so how do u launch it? u an e-braker?

500hpvr4 · #12 08-18-2003, 08:54 PM

No I dont e-brake it, mine doesnt even really work

I tack it up to about 5.5k and when the clutch is about half way when the car barely starts rolling let the clutch out fast and floor it! The car launches so hard like that it sucks you right into the seat.

I dont do that all the time, 5.5k is a really hard launch with AWD.
I only launch that hard when I think im gonna lose.

Thanks for the compliments.

m3mark · #13 08-18-2003, 11:32 PM

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Originally Posted by Trogdor

yeh man i realize the lightening is a truck... not a car! (i live in Texas, so trucks are more common than cars! lol) but the track tests on the lightening that i have seen say its only a 13.62 truck. now granted for a truck thats fast as snot!! but not as fast as the VR-4! and next, when has any ford lived up to its claimed capabilities??? perfect example... any mustang 80's and up! now if u like fords im sorry, but im anti-ford! and again if u dissagree or happen to like fords, then i apologize! but yeh i def. agree with ya that the VR-4 rapes it! and as if u didnt already know, nothing ford will every messure up to that Z06 when u get it!!! those things are so badass its not funny! and 500hpvr4, nice kill man!! i dont think he woulda passed u tho... pulled closer, but i dont think he woulda overtaken ya...it couldnt on the slightly modded Trans-Am i raced one in, so i would think that he wouldnt have actually overtaken ya. but granted i dont know what ur guy had in it so... but he would still "just have a fast piece of sh*t"!-m3mark! (lol thanx man, no hard feelings, and sorry again if u like the lightening) but still... nice kill man! so how do u launch it? u an e-braker?

No hard feelings here..

LOL to be honest I dont care for fords either. I am just an all around car guy. I am just posting from experience. My friends lightning runs 13.4 consistently bone stock. Which is faster then my bone stock vr4. No comparision the mitsu spanks the lightning!!!

mikegee · #14 08-20-2003, 05:22 PM

well i am a lighting fan and also a ford taurus sho fan. but i like no other ford at all. being who i am i look at reality not what i want. in reality with a good shifter behind the wheel of the vr4 it should launch harder and never be caught until the vr4 slows down. end of story.

mikegee · #15 08-20-2003, 05:30 PM

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Originally Posted by blasian_man

lightnings only come in auto right?

04 lighting should be the only lighting to come in a stick, itll have an a/c system cooling the air for the supercharger in place of an intercooler. i think 500 or 525hp? then in 05 right back to an automatic.

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