Title: World's Fastest stock motor F-150 runs 9's! Source:
YT URL Source:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1lOL34y4aE Published:Jan 19, 2019 Author:Riley Neufeld Post Date:2019-02-16 03:36:53 by X-15 Keywords:F-150, lightning Views:1999 Comments:53
Watch this new truck move out like a boss!!
"Stock motor and transmission, Whipple (supercharger) 2018 F-150 running 9.99 first pass off the trailer. Second pass it ran a 9.94 making it the first 2018 F-150 in the 9's as well as the first F-150 in the 9's with a stock motor and transmission."
Also,they are running on a 1/8th mile track,not a 1/4 mile track.
I knew when I saw the title it could not be 1/4 mile. The best time for a stock Challenger Hellcat is 10.56, and I suspect it has a massive power to weight advantage.
I knew when I saw the title it could not be 1/4 mile. The best time for a stock Challenger Hellcat is 10.56, and I suspect it has a massive power to weight advantage.
One of my personal all-time favorite You Tube videos is of a brand new Hellcat drag racing a 61 Valiant stationwagon with a slant 6 on a quarter mile track,and the slant 6 eats his ass UP.
I think there was even something wrong with the engine in the Valiant.It sure didn't want to run very smooth at idle. Seemed to have a miss. Who knows how fast it would run if the guy would tune it up and get rid of that miss? (G)
BTW,both cars are the same shade of green,and the same guy owns both cars. He had just bought the Hellcat,and wanted to run it against his Valiant just for grins.
I think there was even something wrong with the engine in the Valiant
MoPar had a Power Pack kit for the 225cid (tall block) slant six, with duel carbs, long runner ram induction intake manifold, tri-Y headers, and if I remember corretctly even a super slinky thin head gasket that boosted compression a hair.
Those things ate up the Ford & GM sixes in the junior class sanctioned racing, 1962-64 or so, to the point they were banned.
I'm one of the few folks that love a straight six, they actually run better than V8s because of the physics. Each rise/fall/fire/discharge is perfectly counterbalanced by opposite action in mirrored cylinder. No heavy crankshaft counterweights are needed, as they are on crossplane V8s.
I'm one of the few folks that love a straight six,
Me,too. I am leaving the flat 6 in my 51 business coupe,and adding a 3 carb intake,cast iron headers (if I can find them,split manaifolds if I can't),and a finned aluminum high-compression head (if I can find one) to go along with the 3/4 grind cam.
These things sound really nasty with a hot cam,split exhaust,and glasspacks.
I'm making plans on doing pretty much the same thing with my 33 Dodge 4dr that is getting a 251 DeSoto flat 6,and my 42 Dodge business coupe that is keeping it's original 30k mile 230 flat 6. Already bought new Edgy finned aluminum heads for both,as well as the intakes and carbs.
The only negative about the flat 6's is that hi-po parts are hard to find,and you have to buy them when you find them no matter if you can afford them or not right at that moment. I missed a deal on a finned aluminum high compression Edmunds head and matching 3x1 intake from a guy on the HAMB by trying to get him to hold it for me for a week instead of just going ahead and putting it on my credit card. Been two years and I haven't seen a head for a flat 6 Ford since then.
Pretty much all the aftermarket hop-up stuff of that era was for Ford flat-head V8s, until Caddy and Olds came out with OHV V8s in 49.
Yup,but there is a surprising (to me,anyhow) amount of hop up equipment still available for flat 6 Mopars and especially the old Stovebolt 6's. If you get into stuff like the 250 and 292/302 Chevy and GMC inlines,there is even stuff like Wayne 12 port heads available. Kinda pricey,though.
The Ford flat 6 was never very popular with hotrodders because hotrodders bought Ford's to get a V-8. Because of this hop up stuff for the flat 6 Ford is hard to find and expensive.
The flat 6 only has 10 hp less than the V-8 flathead,but the inline 6 has around 30 more ft.lbs of torque,and it's torque that moves these old cars off the line.
Stovebolt 6 was OHV from 37 on, wasn't it? 150HP as Blue Flame Special in early Corvettes, from 231ci. Ford FH (Merc 239ci, final iteration, 1953) topped out at 110 HP from the factory.
You can only wring so much power out of what is essentially a lawnmower engine.
I think Chevy had OHV inline 6's starting around 1929. I used to have a 34 Chevy pu when I was living in Denver,and it had a OHV inline 6 in it when it was new. Despite being splash oilers,they were pretty good and reliable engines. I think they got pressurized oil in 53 or 54 when they went to 235 cubic inches.
I forget right at the moment,but I THINK the OHV inline Chebby engines were around 219 cubic inchers at first.
I was looking and lusting at a 292 inline GM 6 with a turbocharger on it that sat on the floor of the Bandeymere speed shop in Denver for my chebby pu,but my mother died,my father had a heart attack,and I had to sell it and move back to the east coast to take care of him. That turbo 292 with a turbo 400 behind it would have made a killer package for that little pu.
And of course I would have lied and told everybody it was the original engine in it. Most people would never know the difference.
Funny,but true story. I saw a write up in Rod and Custom on a rich guy's 30's style "track T" 28 Ford roadster pu. Unchanneled,no fenders,hood held down by two big leather straps,skinny wire wheels,etc. The owner talked a lot about how much fun he was having spanking new Camaros with it after challenging them to run him in street races. The Camaro owners thought they had it made because they could clearly see it was a 4 cylinder engine he had it it because only one hood side was cut for the headers to stick out. The owner admitted to them that the engine was hopped up,but left them free to assume anything they wanted to assume.
Nobody seems to have noticed the tach with the 15 grand red line. It was the big 250-something cubic inch OHC Offy engine out of a Indy racer. That freaking thing would FLY!
Nobody seems to have noticed the tach with the 15 grand red line. It was the big 250-something cubic inch OHC Offy engine out of a Indy racer. That freaking thing would FLY!
LOL, those Offy's could could be bumped to something like 1500HP if you only needed to get three hours service life out of them.