Supercharged F-150 Runs Steady 10.70s: Truckin’ Fast Wednesday

Ford F-150 with the 5.0-liter V8 topped by a Whipple supercharger crushes muscle cars.

A modern Ford F-150 powered by the 5.0-liter V8 is one of the most capable trucks sold in America. What the Motor Company doesn’t point out is that the V8-powered F-150 is also one of the quickest trucks in the North American market, but more importantly, it shares an engine with the Mustang GT. That leads to a huge collection of aftermarket upgrade options, so it doesn’t take a ton of work to make a new half-ton Ford truck fast enough to beat most modern muscle cars.

This week’s Truckin’ Fast Wednesday video comes to us from the YouTube channel of Boosted Juan and it features a 2019 Ford F-150 making its first set of trips down the track. There doesn’t seem to be much learning curve, as this blown pickup runs back-to-back-to-back 10.70s.

Whippled F-150

The details on this 2019 Ford F-150 are somewhat short, but we know that it is powered by a 5.0-liter “Coyote” V8, mated to a 10-speed automatic transmission and the standard four-wheel-drive system. The engine is fitted with Kooks longtube headers and a 2.9-liter Gen 4 Whipple supercharger with a 3.25 pulley, with the whole system being tuned by OZ Tuning.

We don’t know if there are any suspension modifications, but we know that this F-150 has sticky Nitto NT420S tires all around, allowing this truck to use all of that power. Based on how the truck squats on launch, we are guessing that there is some work done to the underpinnings, but we don’t know for sure.

What we do know is that the 2019 F-150 rips down the track in a hurry.

Steady 10.7s

In the video above, we watch as this 201 F-150 makes a handful of runs down the quarter mile at Wild Horse Pass Motorsports Park. In the first, the truck hops out in front of a Mustang and keeps on pulling away to take the win. We can’t see the big boards, but at the end of the video, we get a look at this time slip. On this run, the blown pickup ran a 10.700 at 129.45 miles per hour with a 1.619 short time.

The second pass is against a sixth generation Camaro ZL1 1LE, and while the lighter muscle car gets out first, the truck quickly catches, passes and cruises to the win. We are told that the truck runs a 10.7, but we don’t have the fractions for this run or the final run.

In the final race of this video, the F-150 takes on a Scion FRS and, as you might imagine, the blown pickup absolutely destroys the little road-handler.

Crank up your speakers and enjoy!

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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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