Ford850

And, hence your title to this thread.

OMAC

touché my good sir

Feathermerchant

Be careful with hauling and aftermarket wheels. Aftermarket wheels can be significantly heavier reducing performance (acceleration and braking). And also keep in mind that lower profile tires are more subject to damage and worsen the ride.

OMAC

I got stock sizing this time, 275/65/18

jonbar87

Nothing other than replacing the stock springs with the Skyjacker leaf springs. Nah I don't carry heavy loads that often, just help out friends for fun.

BigJoe913

so basically you're not disappointed with the truck.... you're disappointed you didn't do your research.... got it.

OMAC

Yes, it's advertised otherwise and I should have researched the specifics

shazam

Be grateful it's not a Raptor: 900 pound payload capacity.

DieselDennis

This thread crossed my mind today as I was reading some blurb about the 2015 F150.

If they "save" 700 lbs of weight by making the body out of aluminum, will all the payloads increase by 700 lbs?

Make sense to me, but those manufacturers do funny things with weight numbers.

Mike Up

Pickuptrucks.com did some dyno tests with many many problems. They had to call in Ford because they could never get the rated torque at lower rpms.

Pickuptrucks.com found out that the Ecoboost doesn't make it's rated torque in 1st gear and doesn't make it in other gears unless loaded. Ford even said that the Ecoboost doesn't produce the rated torque in 1st gear.

That 5.7L was said to have 90% of it's torque down at 1000 rpms. So that would be 297 lbs of torque. Even at 20% loss for driveline loss, that's still 238 lbs of torque. Then add into the equation the power mods that he added, then how much lighter trucks were from that generation, and you have a truck that's excellent at hole shots!

Your not going to get the pull of a V8 unless you power brake the truck to load the engine and get the turbos spinning. Otherwise, you'll make power at much higher rpms like the 5.0L.

The conclusion was that the Ecoboost does produce it's rated torque, just not in the lower gears. The lower gears are where off the line power is going to come into play as the OP stated with his low rpm torque heavy 5.7L. This engine was known for it's exceptional low end torque as stated by numerous auto magazines.