jwanck11

Find a guy on here named mechanicboy - shoot him a PM. I believe he runs the fastest blown 5.0 on the forum.

Nice looking truck - good luck with it!

HULZAZZ

Because I tow my boat, haul ATVs, building supplies, used to have an SCCA car, have two 110lb dogs, like the spaciousness and comfort and frequent gravel roads for work. A cheap high 11/low 12 pickup truck that can support those needs is just fine by me. I don't want to be the fastest thing out there, unless you got endless pockets there will always be someone faster. I just enjoy tinkering around and making my vehicles faster every time I go to the track, with the occasional grudge match for fun.

Honestly I have thought about picking up a 2015 stang when they are released. Be a fun weekend toy, but I have other priorities right now and can't justify the money for a garage queen. Also I have been an import guy pretty much all my life and just enjoy quick cheap street cars. My friends joke that they just can't picture me in a Ford.

Thanks! So far I love it. What originally got me looking at the Ford was the Roush Supercharged trucks running the same times or better as my Tundra and the fact that a warranty was possible. I was thinking how bad *** the 2015's will be 500-700lbs lighter and was going to wait. Well then this little issue with my Tundra came up and after basically being screwed out of my warranty by no fault of my own, I just happen to look online and found this 2013 for a great price 10 min. from the house. The fact that I pretty much no longer had a warranty and seeing the insane prices to replace a Tundra motor, used or new It was too much of a liability. So now I say F warranty after that experience, because they will probably make up some excuse to void it anyway. Plus these Ford motors are a little more reasonable if I did have to come out of pocket.

The Roush kit will run about $7-8k installed with warranty. I am confident I can build a rear turbo setup for 1/3-1/2 the price that can be easily installed and also removed, with no trace that it was ever on the truck. I know the TVS blowers are efficient, my Tundra had a TVS1900, but a turbo has zero parasitic loss and should be able to make more power at lower boost if sized correctly. Also I know mine would get heat soaked pretty quick down here in the South during the extreme heat months. The turbo fueled with e85 should keep things a bit cooler.

I had an idea to supercharge my SCCA Civic and people said it wouldn't work, blah blah blah. $500 later and some redneck engineering I had an extra 100whp and a pretty fun unique/quick grocery getter. The only reason I did it was to prove it could be done. Never quite got it dialed in 100% and traction was a **** being FWD.


I won't be taking the same approach with the F150 lol, but I think I can pull off a clean simple cost effective setup.


Thanks man!
I know I haven't been here long, but your truck hands down is the best RCSB I have seen. Love the stance/look. I would love to drop this one, but I am enjoying the stock comfy ride for now and I really don't want to put a bunch of money into it. If the 2015's RCSB are 4-500lbs lighter I will be picking one up in a couple years. Performance and MPG should be greatly improved if that is the case. Hell I am getting 18MPG in town right now. My three other Tundras I have owned barley got that on the hwy.

A Tundra with a blower is pretty stout and a fun ride, but can be pricey. I got a hell of a deal on my blower/install and loved the truck, just had poor service from my local dealer.

Thanks!
Kinda, they are pretty rare, especially one with a bench seat. I had two double cab 5.7s before which ran pretty good, and when I saw this RCSB online, I had to have it.

Seems like we are on the same brainwave. I just tend to get a new toy every 2 years. lol These little Fords have some potential though from what I have seen. Good luck with yours.

My friend had a 2013 5.0 mustang and said the reason he got the Intune was because it was untraceable. The only thing it does is leave behind the same count as if the battery was disconnected. I hope I don't have any issues with just some simple bolt-ons for now, but I guess I will find out when/if the day comes. From what I read on the Diablo site it is safe to run E85 on their 93 tune, but I'm sure a custom tune would yield a few more HP.

Nice time! The are pretty quick in stock form for a 5000lb truck. Heavy SOB's too.
I ran 14.2@98 stock, traction limited and 13.7@100 on heavy 22's with catback and a custom 4" intake I made that leaned the overly rich stock AFR by one full point.

LTNBOLT

A little more than a decade ago I helped a coworker put a Jackson Racing supercharger on his Civic in my garage. It really woke it up and gave it some dow low grunt so it didn't feel so high strung.

I believe a stock Tundra is pretty fast. It has the same four valve overhead cam technology as the Ford 5.0 with 48 more cubic inches of displacement.

7upstang91

Welcome to the Ford side!

Not sure about the whole tune thing...every tune I've heard of is traceable in the Ford computers since 2011, the F-150s, Mustangs and heck, even the diesel trucks. I would think ID 1000s would be good for your application.

ns_redneck

nice truck. can't wait to see what you do to it.

jgiddy

Congrats on the new truck, I'm about to pick up the same one except in gray and with 3.55 LS :P

What was the actual trade-in value of the Tundra? And was $15909 before or after TTL?

mechanicboy

Give credit where credit is due, King L26 is the fastest... by 0.01

Now if you say fastest crewcab then you'd be right

nihilus

http://www.summitracing.com/parts/ed...view/make/ford
It's not half the cost but still very tempting. The new bypass valve has all but ELIMINATED parasitic loss. Not sure about how much boost the turbos are getting, but some of the TVS setups get over 100 hp/tq with only 5-7 lbs. That is pretty tough to beat.

hi-rev

welcome to the RCSB club, you should check out this thread i started with nothing but lowered RCSB's and a few supercharged ones in there, i only know of one guy who put a front mount turbo on his truck and he is from mission, texas

here is the link to the thread its a pretty long thread and full of pics you will like alot of what you see on there

https://www.f150forum.com/f38/lets-s...rt-box-184408/

HULZAZZ

Thanks again guys. I don't remember exactly what they gave me, but after all was said and done TTL everything. I walked out the door with no money out of my pocket. $16909 for the truck and I got $1000 coming back in the mail from my unused worthless Toyota extended warranty. So $15909 basically the way I see it. I want to keep the suspension stock for now while clearing/building on our land, but looking at that thread really makes me want to drop it. Some very clean looking trucks. Maybe later, but then again I am trying to not put too much into this truck as I would rather have a lighter 2015+ RCSB 4x4 in the next two years. I really wanted a 4x4, but this truck was such a steal IMO and I had the opportunity to unload the Toyota. Got some goodies arriving today. InTune, K&N CAI and lakewood traction bars. Still trying to burn this 87oct. Damn you Ford and your excellent MPG!