Ford F-150 with tires that extend way out past the body uses V8 power to roasts the rear rubber.
When a modern Ford F-150 enters a burnout competition, the driver will often install smaller rear wheels and tires to improve the chances of success. Small wheels weigh less, thus taking less effort to spin, while smaller tires effectively increase the final drive ratio, also helping to get the tires spinning. This week’s Tire Smokin’ Tuesday video comes to us from the Rough Gliders YouTube channel and it features a new F-150 that has taken a different approach, rolling into the competition with huge wheels and wide tires.
High Riding F-150
There are no details on this Ford F-150, but we can tell from the styling that it is from the current generation and based on the sound, it is powered by the 5.0-liter V8. In stock form, that mill delivers 385 horsepower and 387 lb-ft of torque, but we don’t know whether it is stock or modified.
What we do know is that this F-150 is wear a ginormous set of wheels wrapped in wide, low profile rubber. These tires are considerably wider than the stock tires that would have come from the factory, and this wheel-and-tire combination is surely heavier than the stock setup. With that in mind, this F-150 may have some extra horsepower via an engine tune or something, but in any case, it has the powered needed to roast the hell out of these big tires.
Also, while this doesn’t have any impact on burnout capabilities, this F-150 appears to be lifted a bit, making room for the big rollers.
Burnout Competition
The burnout action begins immediately as the video starts, with the huge rear tires spinning easily on the wet, smooth concrete pad of the Trinity Auto Meet Season Opener 2019 at Flamboro Speedway in Canada. Within a few seconds, smoke begins to pour off of the rear tires and before long, we can no longer see the rear half of this high-riding F-150.
After a minute or so, the driver lets off, ending the burnout and rolling out of the way, giving us a good look at the side and design of the wheels. We don’t know how this F-150 did in the burnout competition, but for a truck with this wheel-and-tire setup, it put on an incredible smoke show.
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