Got bored on my way home from work and spotted a lightning.

I know there's 4 or 5 white ones in town that roll around, and 2 that are in the 670-700 rwhp range.

Naturally, I wouldn't mind seeing one of those.

So I hop on the highway and pull up next to him. drop from 6th to 3rd one at a time to get his attention. He hears it and jumps the throttle. I match him almost immediately, but can't pull him in. from 65-105 he put my front bumper back to his door.

I work with the guy now, and I know the truck has 4.10s, an exhaust, and a diablosport tune. He does NOT have a pulley.

I hate being slow.

<--stock with a lid, flowmaster, and 3.73s

He's also trying to order me a cam.

 

go in 3rd next time 65 in 4th is a bad spot.

 

From a roll, they are fast. From a dig, you will slap the baby powder right off that boys ***.

 

at one point when i had catback and lid
it was almost same race as you but he had
4.10s pully intake throttle body and catback little other stuff
and he hardly pulled...now with my mods he has sport tune and others and i walk him

 

yeah, what the hell were you doing racing from 4th

 

Isn't 65 about the very top of 2nd? Definitely a 3rd gear speed. 4th is just asking to get spanked.

 

LOL its the other way around. they have the aerodynamics of a brick and torque out the ***.

 

Chris barely pulled on me, he got a slight jump.

top of second is ~72 with a 3.42 IIRC. I have 3.73s.

And of course I wasn't in 4th. I might have done that when I just got the car, but I know better. I typed 4rd. That should tell you something.

Yeah. This truck runs an 8.4 to my 8.7

 

I disagree. From stoplight to sloplight they are quick but on the highway...its game over for the ford.

 

Depends on the mods. Stock for stock, yeah.

but a 700 HP truck ain't gonna lose to a bolt on F-body.

 

[borat voice]
vaaaaaaary true.
700hp is alot regaurdless of how much he weighs or how much air he has to displace with that brick just to move.

honestly id love to get the joe gibbs edition truck because its pretty much even with a lighting on paper, and it has a 5 speed. the lightings are all auto. plus the chevy motor is smaller iirc.

 

just did some quick research. 04 lighting is a 5.4L super charged 380hp
04 joe gibbs edition truck is a 5.3L superchared with 395hp. and the chevy is a stick like i stated above.

 

Nice race. Get a some headers and you'll take him.

 

im sorry but lightnings advantage is from a Dig not a roll to the person stating their good up top.

those have to be some of the best gripping trucks ever interms of launching.

i watched numerous times as a lightning would rip me a new hole out of the box. with me even having a better reaction time. i would pull 2.0 60fts so he im assuming was pulling a lower 2.0 60 or 1.9 range. and it would always be me after the 1/8th mile running past him. i would run my 13.5 and he would run 13.7 me @105 and him 102 to 103

 

well they aren't BS we know that. keep your game face on and get those longtubes as stated above. then REMATCH.

 

ill never take anything with FI lightly .... other than a 18wheeler

 

They are serious torque monsters. I had a pulley, intake, shift kit and tune, and i made a heatsoaked 399rwhp/524rwtq with the torque peaking at aroung 3250. As much as i would have loved a manual trans, there was no way in hell, i could come close to the hard shifts with the auto. It spun a little into second, and chirped third.

When me and my girl messed around with her in the 02 WS.6(only lid and catback then) against my truck with just an Intake i would get slowly pulled.

 

I have raced a few lightnings all motor and from a roll they just werent really nuthin. From a dig it got better. BUt eh i dunno. Its a truck

 

<-- bit more stock than you.

 

I have raced good bolt on lightnings and still wasnt close .I know they can be fast. My buddy that works at the local dealership has a clean *** one that puts over 500hps to the pavement.