has anyone raced a ford lightning with their vortec max? i read that the stock lightnings run about 14.6 in the quarter, so i think it might be a close race if you had exhaust and an intake and a tune on the vmax. a guy tried to race me last night in my vmax with his lightning, but i didn't have a tune, so it would have just been a bloodbath.

That thing has over 500hp, that's 100 more than the vmax at best. I think the lightning would crush the vmax as well as the 6.2.

Whats a Lightning?
Oh wait that ugly looking thing from Ford. I thought they stopped making those back in 03 or 04

Ford Lightnings are not that fast. Modded, then yes. I'm not dead certain on stock 1/4 mile times but thats a click a way on caranddriver.com. The highest HP models (1999-2004) had 380 HP and 450 lbs of torque. And weigh probally around 4,300 lbs. Race a Lighning off a light on the street. with AWD or 4wd launch you'll take him in a VMAX or any other 6.0L model. On the Highway though he'll probally out run ya.

Just my 2 cents.

Just wentto car and driver and they said an 04 lightning does the 1/4 in 13.8 . A bit fast for our full siza GM's. Don't be upset though. That is their largest v8 in a 1500 truck supercharged. If we supercharge a VMAX we'll be pushing well over 500HP and have a quicker 1/4 time.
I was way off on the curb weight too. http://www.caranddriver.com/reviews/car/01...st/specs_page_2


Lightning is the cheapest way to go fast in the truck world. But you'll destroy a Lightning owner's EGO as soon as a fullsize GM thats SC'd Blows his doors off in front of everyone.

I beat one in my 03' Duramax a few years ago. He was stock, I had my Edge set to level 6. Ah, that truck was fun

I smoked a Lighting the other night, he was talking smack and got embarrassed in front of his girl friend!!!!! Gotta love a good DMAX 500+hp and 900+ ft lbs.

NICE

The problem with the Lightnings' is that none of them are stock. You can spend $500 on a supercharger pulley and a chip with a new serpentine belt and add 80rwhp. My lightning ran 12.77 in the 1/4 mile with this mod. It ran a 13.2-13.5 stock. But like I said, it is so easy to mod them, nobody leaves them stock...

I wish GM would make their SS with a blower, now that would be sweet! AWD and all that tourqe would be crazy.

the lightning has nuts, but without the boost its a terd...6.2 with a charger would stomp a pothole in almost anything

the lightnings are absolutley hideous and it looks like a tacky lowrider. just my opinion

Like most have said, Lightnings are pretty mild from the factory, but with a few tweaks, can become beasts!

The first gen ones were awesome. Just looked like a basic F-150, with a bumper lip.

Just sold one of those a about a year ago, bought it from the orginal owner, it was a 1995 and had 65,000 miles on it and was like new. I think the only think ever put in the bed was velvet because there was not a scatch or ding inside it anyware!! I bought it while on travel for work not running for $500.00. Fixed it in about 2 hours, it had 3 bent push rods. Owner thought it had a done somthing worse. I had all the dealer docs from when it was bought, maintence records and a new set of tires. I got lucky, sold it for 5K a few months later on e-bay.

It was a cool truck...

I once got hit by a lightning....

Well when would the lightning not have boost? Thats like saying the 6.2 without 4 cylinders would be a terd...what is you point?

The Lightning is detuned from the factory, so it really doesn't make much boost on the stock settings. Maybe that is what he was trying to say.

Me and a buddy were in his badass SS Silverado about a few months ago and smoked the shit out of a ford lightening... in the ss we could slow down and let him get ahead and then instantly get back ahead so we kept doing that so the other guy just finaly hit his brakes and quit racing haha

the lightnings run mid 13's stock and thats with 8lb of boost. my cousins truck has a +4 lb pully, dynatech headers with magnaflow race mufflers and electrics fans and now runs mid to low 12's. this is at 3500 ft also. hes making 420hp and 540 ft lbs and still get 18mpgs on the highway because its such a light truck theres nothing to it.

It's still way cooler to smoke any of the factory "race" trucks with a diesel!

There's nothing like the look of sheer confusion on someones face after they get beat by a plain jane 6 thousand pound HD diesel! This applies to the ricers as well!

Ditto.