I know why his user name is foundonroaddead! He drives a chevy!

Go figure, it's not hard to put 2 & 2 together!



1988 F-150, SWB, 5.0 EFI (formerly 4.9 EFI), M5OD 5 speed, 3.08 gears, Summit shorty truck headers, Custom built Flowmaster exhaust system. Force 4 LP6000 lightbar, Federal signal PA-300 100 watt siren, Icom IC-V100 50 watt mobile radio.
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1965 F-100 (just purchased 1/18/01), SWB, 390, C-6 auto. Dual exhaust, Not much else to do to it.

Can see both below.

[link:www.geocities.com/hotrodford_88/|Hotrodford_88's Webpage]

 

Hey to all those on the board here,

Ive been reading along throughout the many posts to this board (and this is a hot topic obviously) ive noticed something thats kind of interesting to me at least. Many of the Lightning fans out there are using hard numbers in their arguments and actually giving the vette credit where its due. While the chevy guys are resorting to alot of mud slinging. Why is that? I mean i know for myself at least that i think a Vette is a fine piece of hardware, but i also think that (and this might just be the engineer in me) the Lightning is an incredible machine. maybe its making a truck go from 0-60 in 6 seconds I do have a little bias towards ford yes but the other thing you have to notice here is were comparing a sports CAR to a TRUCK and the truck isnt doing all that bad. for 10K less and tack on a few hundred extra pounds, id say SVT has done a D&** good job. And by the way Foundonroad...take the practicality test....how much weight can your vette pull and then how long does it take to get that weight up to highway speed...i know your just itching to run out and stick a class III reciever hitch on your fiberglass hunk and see what that baby can do!! And dont come back yelling about the Silverado SS...ive heard about it...so where is this brilliant piece of mechanical mayhem, cuz i know one thing: a ghost truck isnt going to outrun the one that just left a burning pile of rubber in the lane next to you.

Patrick C

90 F-150 short bed
Red/White
351 CID

 

first of all son, you've never seen a such a heavily modified impala as mine. what do you think about a whipple supercharger, edlebrock headers, borla exhaust, 180 hp nos,high-performance computer chip, XGT-Z michelin radial rubbers, a 2 in. body drop, and AS MUCH WEIGHT AS A LIGHTNING, but pushing 500 horse, i can eat a 1/4 mile in 12.64 and any lightning you wanna throw at me and got the timeslip to prove it. oh by the way i was riding with my friend in his trans am firehawawk, and we just happened to see a lightning on the interstate and just happened to blow him away at 150 while the poor lightning was geared so low at 140. winner-trans am! (darnit, chevs(or pontiacs, the same company) just seem to win every time don't they!?) ok, i will say one thing though, the lighning is a nice truck and is fast, but just can't hang with superior sports cars from g.m.

 

Hmmm, this story sounds vaguely familiar. Anybody remember the 140 mile an hour Ford 1/2 ton?

Gee 150 miles an hour huh? And what interstate was this on again?

And with a supercharger & nitrous I can't wait to hear the KA BOOM from that 350! As far as a 2 inch drop, that should be really interesting, since the impalas were already low enough as it was. Exactly how fast are you able to go over speed bumps? Or do you have to go over them at an angle?

Please, go somewhere else and spread this nonsense. Sounds like somebody wants to give out figures, and with nitrous & a supercharger it just won't handle it!!!!!!!!
Exactly how many ngines have you gone through with that combination?

Want real power try a Ford 460, with a supercharger, then come back and talk.
1988 F-150, SWB, 5.0 EFI (formerly 4.9 EFI), M5OD 5 speed, 3.08 gears, Summit shorty truck headers, Custom built Flowmaster exhaust system. Force 4 LP6000 lightbar, Federal signal PA-300 100 watt siren, Icom IC-V100 50 watt mobile radio.
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1965 F-100 (just purchased 1/18/01), SWB, 390, C-6 auto. Dual exhaust, Not much else to do to it.

Can see both below.

[link:www.geocities.com/hotrodford_88/|Hotrodford_88's Webpage]

 

I was going to respond to Foundonroad but i think hotrod took care of about everything i had to say! I like those stories that start out "we just HAPPENED to see a _____ on the highway and we smoked him"...ok..so uhh how fast were you going to begin with. Was this a lineup start or were you already going 60 apiece. Or was he going 55 in the right lane like he should have been and you had used about 60 miles earlier to get up to 150. Oh and if you turn off that nitrous that 500 horseys doesnt seem so impressive...ya know 500-180=320.

Patrick C.

 

foundonroaddead,

You just don't get it and you can't read either. Check my sig. Want a part of my daily-driven '95? And that's with a SINGLE power adder on radial tires! I don't need to boost and spray to run 12s, much less 11s.

Hey, point me to some information about that Whipple supercharger you have. I can't seem to find a kit ANYWHERE (and I've never seen one either). Paxton and Vortech, yes. Whipple? Hmmmm...

Actually, I've seen Impalas modified WAY more than yours - and a Lightning that runs in the 7s at 180 mph, but I was talking stock for stock. And an Impala weighs over 400 lbs less than a Gen 1 Lightning. Check your facts.

And there you go again - "A Ford truck can't match a purpose built sports-car from GM that costs $20K more." WELL DUH! But how about ANY GM truck? Hmmmm... now that shouldn't be a real head-scratcher for you.

Later!
Jeff S.
Lightning #74 in '95 - 11.92@115.2
Lightning #582 in '00 - 13.36@101.75

 

Dang all us ford people must think alike fmos!

Patrick C.

Red/white F-150
shortbed
351 CID EFI

 

Hey,,,

If SVT puts that sc engine in a mustang I'll sell my 1989 turbo transam and buy the ford.

I've had 4 corvettes 1981,1986,1991,1993 there good cars but they beat you up on long trips and have no room. Where would I fit my 3 kids in a vette? Oh by the way those new corvettes are ugly,, ugly,, ugly!-The lighting is a better looking ride.

Wish the lighting was made in an extended cab version I'd of bought that instead of my 2000 xlt 4x4

 

lol hell chevy boy.i just raced a fire hawk from lights to lights probelly little less then a quarter mile with my 2001 lighting.i kept wondering what happened to him, lol.guess i ll never know.but when i took off i thought his motor died lol.as for vets?havent been beat yet.

 

[font size="1" color="#FF0000"]LAST EDITED ON 08-Jul-01 AT 04:27 PM (EST)[/font][p]I think you are full of crap mr impala. You dont have to lie to kick it.

 

Got a question. You fellas' say the lightning will outrun the vette,right? Then that means a lightning will outrun a viper also. Correct? Seeing as to how the viper is the only Big3 vehicle that will outrun a vette. And that is with 2 more cyls.,more horses,more cubes, and an extra gear. And the viper was just barely able to do it. Get real, people. If any of us thinks GM or MOPER(IT'S SPELLED RIGHT!)Is going to allow a truck
to outrun their prize sports cars,we had better pick up our brains and slide them back into the cranial cavity's. Because we definately lost our minds somewhere. It would be nice though.
By the way, Chevy is building a new factory close by to manufacture their new sport trucks. Man,they are funky lookin'!They're also busting loose with a 494(?) cubic inch gas engine.
8.1 litre. Not sure if is's going in the new sport truck.
Thanks for lettin' me speal out my 2 cents.


Garett

 

No, the Lightning won't outrun a Vette unless the Vette driver sucks. The whole thing is that it's ridiculous that the best thing HotRod mag could do was compare a Corvette to a Lightning since GM has no truck that is even remotely close to a Lightning.

The point is that a Ford truck was at least worthy of comparison to the mighty Corvette. But let's face it, if you stuck 1000 lbs of extra weight in the Vette, the Lightning would be faster. And if you put 5000 lbs of trailer and car behind each one, the Vette probably wouldn't even move while the Lightning just did its thing. I mean it's a truck! Cut it a little slack.

The joke was the guy with the Impala talking smack.

Later!
Jeff S.
Lightning #74 in '95 - 11.92@115.2
Lightning #582 in '00 - 13.36@101.75

 

[font size="1" color="#FF0000"]LAST EDITED ON 11-Jul-01 AT 06:58 PM (EST)[/font][p]Jeff
I agree with the HotRod thing 100%.Just f__king pathetic!
I know for a fact the Lightning will eat up the late model Camaro
with the hipo package and ZR-1 suspension. Saw that in person,
3 times. The Lightning wasted it.
Mr. Imputant SS needs to go lay down somewhere(Impala).
The Lightning is art, man. Plain and simple.

Garett

 

I really wish Ford fanatics(and I include myself in that genre)would engage brain before opening mouth!! To say a Camaro has a ZR-1 suspension and that a Lightning "eats it up" makes us look a little less intelligent. The Camaro SS and Non-Z06 Vette are running consistent low 13's. A stock Lightning runs mid to high 13's. While still very impressive, a stock "Z-28" SS or Vette will beat a STOCK Lightning. Just as my stock Cobra will get beat by a LS1 GM car, sometimes we have to face reality and not be so blind loyal and act like punk-azz chevy jerks.

Off my soap box now!!

 

I just wanted to point out (further twist the knife) one small detail about that incredible impala. Onroaddead is shootin juice from a 180 HP kit. He also claimed that it was making 500 horseys:
500-180=320.

A. That means that even with that mysterious whipple charger and all the other stuff, turn off the nitro and its still 40 horses short of a stock lightning.

B. 36% of the horsepower comes from the nitrous, whereas 0% of the lightnings horsepower is from nitrous. Put that same kit on a lightning and your looking at 540 horsepower. (thats a pretty big number isnt it!)

In conclusion I would like to say that I am still not impressed. A truck that makes 40 (60 if your talking 2001) more horsepower off the assembly line than a car thats been flipped out, now thats something to be impressed with.


Patrick C.