Supercharged Ford F-150 Runs a 9-Second Quarter Mile
All Ford trucks are made to get work done. This F-150’s only job is completing a quarter mile as quickly as possible.
Drag racers who compete with Ford F-150s typically get their trucks with the two same characteristics: a single cab and the 5.0-liter Coyote V8. Then they usually add some type of forced induction.
But the results aren’t always the same. Some trucks are faster than others. It’s all a matter of final output, transmission tuning, tires, driver response time, and a hundred other things. The person behind the wheel of the Ford F-150 in this video from High Tech Corvette clearly has things figured out.
Aside from its red paint (and ovals) and the Lightning badges on its front fenders, this F-150 is visually low-key. Key word: Visually. It’s not blasting fire out of a pipe exiting from one of its front fenders. There aren’t rubber steamrollers under the rear wheel arches. There’s no parachute hanging off the tailgate. In fact, there’s no tailgate at all.
It’s a different story under the hood. An ominous black supercharger sits on top of the Coyote V8 and pumps boost through its predator veins.
However much that happens to be, let’s just say that it’s enough for the F-150 to make some blistering passes on the drag strip. The slowest of those is against a ’90s Pontiac Firebird. Soon after starting down the track, the F-150 tries to put down a little too much power at once and spins its rear tires. It quickly regains its grip and bolts forward. Despite that momentary slip, the F-150 still manages to beat the F-Body by a huge margin. It finishes the quarter mile in 10.576 seconds at 144.77 mph. The Pontiac clocks a 10.993 at 131.24 mph.
With only itself to compete with, the F-150 crosses the line in 9.413 seconds at 146.50 mph. Oddly enough, the F-150 does its best when it’s lined up against another Ford. In this case, it’s a yellow New Edge Mustang that was clearly built for quarter miles. The pony car suffers some sort of injury that prevents it from reaching a full gallop. Whatever its affliction is, it’s not contagious because the F-150 charges ahead without hesitation. The “Lightning” flashes across the line 9.239 seconds later doing 146.11 mph.
There are a lot of moving parts in every drag machine. Whoever put this F-150 together found a way to make them all work together at peak efficiency and with maximum effectiveness.
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