2019 Ranger Does a Solid Burnout: Tire Smokin’ Tuesday

Ranger roasts the rear tires with EcoBoost power and an accompaniment from Metallica.

The Ford Ranger doesn’t get as much credit as the F-150 for being a great burnout machine due to the fact that the smaller truck comes with smaller engines. Many of the burnout videos that we feature are powered by a monster V8, but the modern Ranger is currently only offered with an EcoBoost four-cylinder. However, while the smaller pickup has a small engine, it delivers comparable power to some fairly modern V8-powered half-ton trucks.

As a result, the new Ranger can do some burnouts, especially when the truck has been upgrades with some aftermarket goodies. This week’s Tire Smokin’ Tuesday video comes to us from the SPDPerformance YouTube channel and it does a great job of showing off the burnout potential of Ford’s popular new mid-sized pickup.

Ranger with Bigger Exhaust

The 2019 Ford Ranger sold in the United States comes standard with a turbocharged 2.3-liter EcoBoost engine that delivers 270 horsepower and 310 lb-ft of torque. This particular pickup is not stock, as it has been fitted with a high-flow downpipe and a full exhaust system from SPD Performance. On the website, the company states that the downpipe and exhaust both improve performance, but there are no hard power numbers. We also don’t know if this Ranger has the downpipe with or without the catalytic convertor, nor do we know if this engine has been tuned to make the most of the exhaust upgrades.

In short, we know that this Ford Ranger is making more than stock power, but we don’t know how much more. If the exhaust upgrades are accompanied by an engine tune, we would expect pretty significant increases in both horsepower and torque, but even without the tune, the free-flowing piping should add a few extra ponies in addition to the sound.

In any case, this compact Ford packs enough power to put together a solid smoke show.

Slo-Mo Tire Slaying

You might think that a burnout video of a Ford Ranger with aftermarket exhaust upgrades would offer a chance to hear the truck roar while in action, but you would be wrong. Instead of exhaust sounds, we get an odd remix of Metallica’s “Unforgiven”, but there is a good reason for that.

This burnout is displayed in slow-motion. If the video included the exhaust sounds, it would be all weird and stretched out, just like the video, so it would not serve as a good representation of this aftermarket exhaust system. The company doesn’t want people thinking that their exhaust upgrades sound like crap, so on the slow-motion videos, they add music.

Putting the lack of exhaust noise aside, this Ranger burnout video is excellent. At first, there isn’t much smoke, but once the tires really get spinning hard, the small truck produces some big clouds.

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Patrick Rall

"Before I was old enough to walk, my dad was taking me to various types of racing events, from local drag racing to the Daytona 500," says Patrick Rall, a lifetime automotive expert, diehard Dodge fan, and respected auto journalist for over 10 years. "He owned a repair shop and had a variety of performance cars when I was young, but by the time I was 16, he was ready to build me my first drag car – a 1983 Dodge Mirada that ran low 12s. I spent 10 years traveling around the country, racing with my dad by my side. While we live in different areas of the country, my dad still drag races at 80 years old in the car that he built when I was 16 while I race other vehicles, including my 2017 Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat and my 1972 Dodge Demon 340.

"Although I went to college for accounting, my time in my dad’s shop growing up allowed me the knowledge to spend time working as a mechanic before getting my accounting degree, at which point I worked in the office of a dealership group. While I was working in the accounting world, I continued racing and taking pictures of cars at the track. Over time, I began showing off those pictures online and that led to my writing.

"Ten years ago, I left the accounting world to become a full-time automotive writer and I am living proof that if you love what you do, you will never “work” a day in your life," adds Rall, who has clocked in time as an auto mechanic, longtime drag racer and now automotive journalist who contributes to nearly a dozen popular auto websites dedicated to fellow enthusiasts.

"I love covering the automotive industry and everything involved with the job. I was fortunate to turn my love of the automotive world into a hobby that led to an exciting career, with my past of working as a mechanic and as an accountant in the automotive world provides me with a unique perspective of the industry.

"My experience drag racing for more than 20 years coupled with a newfound interest in road racing over the past decade allows me to push performance cars to their limit, while my role as a horse stable manager gives me vast experience towing and hauling with all of the newest trucks on the market today.

"Being based on Detroit," says Rall, "I never miss the North American International Auto Show, the Woodward Dream Cruise and Roadkill Nights, along with spending plenty of time raising hell on Detroit's Woodward Avenue with the best muscle car crowd in the world.

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