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Daily Slideshow: 650HP Power Stroke F-100 Proves This Old Timer Still Has It

This 1964 F-100 narrowly escaped the scrap yard to live again, low to the ground, with 650 horses under its hood.

By Brian Dally - January 5, 2018
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1. Saved
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2. Power Stroke Plans
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3. Tube City
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4. Flush
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5. Swapped
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6. Finishing Touches
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7. Selected Bits and Pieces
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1. Saved

The pickup you see here almost gave up its life to be recycled into soup cans, chain link fencing, or even Honda automobiles. “The truck sat for nearly two years in a San Diego neighborhood while I was stationed overseas. When I got back stateside to Houston, Texas, I learned the city had threatened to tow it away and crush it," owner Dorian Reyna says. But Reyna saw something in the condemned Ford and he wasn't about to see it disappear, "So a buddy and I scraped up some dough and headed to California to pick it up.”

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2. Power Stroke Plans

What Reyna saw involved ripping out the lunched 390 c.i. gasoline engine and replacing it with a proper Power Stroke. The pickup would have to wait patiently in Texas while Reyna started up his business, Power Stroke Enginuities. He was lucky to have some helpful friends and they did what all helpful friends do—they nagged him to start working on Reyna's unfinished but potentially fun-for-them projects. “I met a lot of awesome people in the Marine Corps, and a few of them really wanted to see me turn the old F-100 into something special,” Reyna confirms.

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3. Tube City

Once Reyna's pals got involved things got serious and before they knew it the truck's original frame was nixed and the F-100 was sent out for a new, full tube frame. “At first, I was just going to build something with big tires in back, like a traditional hot rod, but I received so much help from friends and fabrication shops that I decided to go all out,” Reyna relates. Chassis Fab, in Pasadena, Texas, got to work fabricating the square-section tube chassis for the F-100, constructing frame rails that were narrow enough to facilitate long-travel suspension arms and the wide 275 tires Reyna was looking for.

4. Flush

It took more than just suspension travel to get the F-100 flush with the ground, to that end, and to give ample clearance to the truck's 6.0-liter diesel engine and Ford 5R110 five-speed automatic transmission, the firewall and tunnel were modified to provide more room and the oil pan was shortened by 2 inches. Adding a 3-inch tall cowl-induction hood bulge also provided extra space for the Power Stroke, which Reyna installed using a Cutting Edge Diesel S300 mounting kit, and a narrowed four-link rear axle provided room for the fat tires and travel for the air-bag suspension to do its work, providing a full 11 inches of ride height adjustment.

5. Swapped

With the chassis sorted, Reyna turned his attention to the engine compartment, and he decided the slick new tube chassis called for something more in the motor department than a simple swap. “I wanted it to make some impressive numbers on the dyno, so I couldn’t just stick a stock engine in it,” Reyna confirmed. He sourced a rebuilt 2005 Power Stroke with forged internals and treated it to an intercooled 66mm turbo, uprated injection, and a nitrous oxide system. Speedlab Creations' Jose Jimenez was enlisted to build a custom intake and exhaust systems, in addition to fabricating the custom radiator and intercooler.

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6. Finishing Touches

When it came to the appearance of the F-100, Reyna wanted to keep the look decidedly 'barn find,' with one exception—the USMC-themed seats he commissioned Ryan Alford at Sheetmetal Designs to design and construct. “The first time I hit the key and fired it up, I knew all the hard work was worth it,” Reyna gushed. “People love the truck, they love the tribute seats, they love that it’s a diesel, and they love that we stuck some 18-inch meats out back.” And he can light those meats up at will, with 650 hp and 1,100 lb-ft of torque on tap. We'd like to thank Reyna for his service in saving this little piece of 1964 from the crusher—we'll take 650 horses over a bunch of recycled cans any day.

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7. Selected Bits and Pieces

Engine/Transmission

•6.0L Ford Power Stroke V-8 with ARP rod and head bolts, Carrillo rods, River City Diesel pistons, fire-ringed heads, Odawgs Diesel Performance ported intake manifold

•SCT Livewire programmer with Gearhead Automotive Performance custom tuning

•Elite Diesel Engineering 225hp/100-percent-over injectors, Aeromotive A1000 lift pump, Caterpillar fuel filters, Power Stroke Enginuities fuel return, River City Diesel Thumper II high-pressure oil pump

•BorgWarner 66mm S300 turbocharger, Cutting Edge Diesel S300 mounting kit, Speedlab Creations intercooler

•Speedlab Creations 4-inch downpipe, custom tubing, and muffler

•5R110 five-speed automatic with Gearhead Automotive Performance tuning and a Powertrain Control Solutions standalone controller

Suspension/Chassis

•Tires: 275/40R20 Nitto Invo (F), 29x18.00 R20 Mickey Thompson Sportsman S/R (R)

•Chassis Fab chassis built from 2x4-inch 0.125-inch-wall square tubing

•McGaughys Suspension Parts custom A-arms with Air Lift Performance airbags (F), four-link with Fox Racing shocks and Air Lift airbags (R)

•Axles: Shortened GM 14-bolt with 3.73 gears

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