F-250 Super Duty with a gasoline-fueled engine roasts big BFGoodrich KO2 from multiple angles.
In most cases, Ford F-250 Super Duty owners who want to put on a big, nasty smoke show will do so with cheap tires that are easy to replace. This is why our Tire Smokin’ Tuesday videos often showcase vehicles with mismatched front and rear wheels, but in this video from the Caswell Customs YouTube channel, the owner of this truck is burning expensive rubber.
Fortunately, this F-250 is getting a new set of tires, so to send the BFGoodrich KO2 tires off in proper style, the owner is doing one final burnout with the big, pricey rollers.
Original F-250 Super Duty
While Ford has obviously been making award-winning trucks for nearly a century, the Super Duty became its own line for the 1999 model year. That makes the F-250, F-350, F-450 and F-550 the first generation of the Super Duty model and the truck above it from that first generation. Also, based on the grille and headlights, we would guess that it was from the latter stage of that era.
There are no details on this F-250, but it sounds like a gasoline engine, so it is fitted with either a Triton V8 or a Triton V10. As the camera pans past the front fender, it kind of looks like there is some sort of aftermarket V10 badge, but it is hard to tell for sure that it says. It is not a factory V10 badge, but it appears to be V-shaped and it looks like a 10.
If this Super Duty is powered by the Triton V10 measuring 6.8 liters and we are correct that this truck is from 2005, 2006 or 2007, it would have offered 362 horsepower and 457 lb-ft of torque in stock form. Even by today’s standards for gasoline engines, those are strong numbers.
In any case, we can see that this F-250 Super Duty has big aftermarket wheels wrapped in bigger-than-stock tires, making a smoky burnout more difficult, but the gas-burning torque machine under the hood doesn’t struggle to roast the big rollers.
Burnout, Two Ways
In the video above, we watch this first generation Super Duty roast the rear tires from two different angles. The wide angle is captured from someone holding an iPhone while a GoPro attached to the passenger’s side front fender gets the close-up view. This allows us to see and hear this smoke show from two different angles and in each, this F-250 shows how a heavy duty truck should do a burnout.
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