SVT Lighting
 

Hey, does anyone own a lighting...i have a few questions about this car. Are there back seats cause i cant see any in the pictures. Also what cars can the lighting beat when it's stock and what some times they run?

Hey man the Lightning is a Truck not a car. It is a 5.4 litre supercharged v-8. Rated at 380 hp. And no there is no Back seats.

The F-150 Lightnings are running mid 13's stock. Fast enough to beat just about anything on the road.

Here is one pic of a Lightning I have.

hmmm, lets compare the Lightning to the Vette :)

Lightning: mid-low 13's stock, 12's obtainable VERY easily
Corvette: mid-low 13's stock, expensive to modify

Lightning: driver + 2 passengers comfortably
Corvette: driver + 1 passenger

Lightning: haul a load of mulch from the store
Corvette: haul a handbag from the mall

Lightning: ~$32,000
Corvette: ~$40,000-50,000

Lightning: easily my choice
Corvette: choice of rich guys with a need for a chick magnet

I know you asked nothing about comparing the two vehicles, but I like to do so because the Lightning is such an awesome truck and all around (fun, usefullness, power) IMO nothing can compete with it

From what I hear 12 ez with like new Mass air and a Chip in it and you got in to the 12's That is the new ones.

dito
 

lets put it this way ,it's pretty intimidating.
now i have to go take a picture;)

OK, you can't compare a car to a truck. A new ZO6 will spank a modded Lightning, will WAY outhandle, and outstop it. Not even in the same ballpark. It's a fast truck, which for the money, I'd rather have an SVT Cobra.

I never compared the Lightning to a Z06. Just the normal vette

and no a Z06 won't spank a Modded lightning, a decently modded lightning can run very low 12's and whats a Z06 run? like mid 12's. Even mid 12's isn't considered spanking a low 13 second STOCK lightning.

I know it had nothing to do with the subject, but I just thought I would compare the truck he is asking about to a very respectable sports car, and IMO (thats MY opinion, not YOURS) the Lightning is a much better vehicle for the money

Re: dito
 

GRRRRRR :D so NOT fair!

SVO Lightning
 

ghostfacedriver:

Dan McClain - owner and founder of Mustang Works Online - owns a beautiful, bright red Roush-built 1999/2000 Lightning with a full Bassani exhaust system.

He might have some information you could use.
I suggest you send him a PM. (Private Mail)


'Car and Driver' - not exactly a muscle-car magazine - tested a 2001 SVO Lightning and ran a 13.8 in the quarter-mile. A real driver (these Car and Driver guys are all over 40 and drool over anything foreign) could probably see mid-13's.

I'm sure Dan McClain's Lightning could do easy mid-13's, too. This on a heavy truck with an automatic transmission!

Not too shabby for stock.

Re: SVO Lightning
 

Thats correct. Be on the lookout for it to show up in the Project Car section real soon.

After I pay off my Cobra I'm gunna sell it. I'll most likely get a Lightning instead. Just add a shift kit, chip, upper and lower pullies, and exhaust will put it into the high 12's 12.88 to be exact. And thats with ~ 400rwhp! I'd be beating stock Corvette's, Camaros and Vipers! :-D

1) moc, dude, that's a sweet ride you got.

2) i've seen the referance(sp?) to a superchip a few times. now i've been told it helps next to nothing, and from what i've seen in here it helps a great deal. i need to know once and for all, performance chip: good or bad.....

well a chip on a 87-95 will help only a little on the new Mustang it will do more Adn from what I have heard On the Lightings It can do big things.

The Lightning is definetly tops on my list if I was to buy a truck.

However, here's specs that SVT has up for it as well as Motorcity, Autochannel, SVT/SHO pages, etc, etc, etc:

Factory Specifications
Engine: Triton V8
Horsepower: 380 bhp @ 4750 rpm
Torque: 450 lb-ft @ 3250 rpm
0-60 mph: 5.8 sec
1/4 Mile: 13.9 sec
Top Speed: 142 mph
Fuel Efficiency: 13/17 mpg
Transmission: 4 spd auto
Brakes: ABS

That is definetly slower than a Corvette Z06. They are in completely different classes. You can't really compare them. Oh yeah, that 13.9 is the fastest stock time I found. I saw many low 14s being run with the stock Lightning. Vette is definetly faster.

However for a truck the Lightning is God! :D

I dont care if its slower than a vette or not. I WANT ONE.

Brad

once again I NEVER compared it to a Z06, just the normal vette

by the way, MM&FF tested the 01 lightning and got a 13.4 in warm weather the first time they drove it

I don't care either... its like comparing apples to oranges.

Get one... it definetly is like having the best of both worlds... enough power to blow away most cars and enough space to move a fair amount of stuff and be practical!

Just might be a little drain on the pocketbook as a running cost since it likes to *chug* *chug* *chug*

If it was purely a real life situation, I'd pick the SVT Lightning WAY over a Z06.