it's time for show-off Sunday, where everyone has a chance to show off their
own car, and here's this week's winner, hey everybody my name is Eric Knight
this is my 2001 Ford F-150 SVT Lightning, I found this car back in July
of 2011 in Tacoma Washington, and I was stationed there in the air force at the
time and I was able to get it for a great price, of course it had some
cosmetic issues and the wrong wheels and things, but I was able to find those parts
later
but that helped get the price down, the engine had 77,000 miles on it, it
was all stock and that's a big deal when you're looking for one of these, you want
to find one that's all stock, they were produced from 1999 to 2004, this is a 2nd
gen
Lightning, it had new body panels, they were only
available as a single cab with a flare
side bed, the Ford SVT and Roush helped to do a lot of modifications to the
engine to be able to get to handle all the power the supercharger is putting
out, it actually had the A4R100 automatic transmission and they got that
out of a Ford Super Duty pickup, because that was the only thing that could
handle all the torque and the power without blowing up manual transmissions
that was really cool up, of it's time the Ford Lightning held the Guinness Book of
World Records, it was the world's fastest production pickup truck, so that was
another really cool thing about these, my lightning is a 2001 model and that year
had some pretty big changes for the truck, the changes were, they had a lower
intake was redesigned, the air inlet size was increased, power increased to 380
horsepower and 415 foot pounds of torque, the 3.55 axle ratio is upgraded to a
3.73 ratio axle, the driveshaft size increased from three and a half inches
to four and a half inches, six thousand three hundred eighty-one lightnings were
produced in 2001, 1908 of them being black
I was lucky to get the black, because they were the most of that year and
black can be challenging, as far as upgrades that I've done on this pickup
truck, really I kept the engine completely stock as you can see, which is
a big deal I think sometimes when people put too much pulleys and parts on these
trucks they have tendency to have issues, I did have the K&N air filter put in, I
was able to have all four of the wheels restored and as I mentioned before these
grille pieces were found and redone, this one here is very
inexpensive, the part of the bottom is extremely hard to find and
cost up to $400, luckily I was able to find one on Craigslist in Tampa Florida
and my uncle picked it up for me, inside is still all stock, I have been able to
change out the steering wheel with a much better one, I upgraded to a double
din system, just to get it up to the 21st century, it has bluetooth I highly recommend
if anybody's to do this, get one with the car play or Android play, it pretty
much turns your phone onto your screen you can use GPS, Ford called this
preferred suede trim, it's pretty neat you know that's all lightning special, I
brought some Lightning mats and I just did you know generic upgrades and I fix
things and I restore trim pieces
I do recommend, I put this undercover system on here, they are very lightweight
they're very tough, and like any pickup truck you want to be able to have a way
to put your stuff in the back and not have it get stolen, so you can lock this
and I have a reverse camera for safety, helped bring the insurance down too
I did have a tune done a few years ago, 560 foot-pounds
at the rear wheels she's got 361
horsepower and 449 foot pounds of torque,
another real cool thing about this truck is that this sound never gets old
another really good upgrade I did this truck was I upgraded the brake system
and a big thing, I got some nice drilled and slotted rotors, and I had the
red new calipers and some special high-performance brake pads put in
really helps stop this truck and being as fast it is and as light as the rear
end is, that is a big time advantage, as far as driving this truck it's my daily
driver, I Drive it in everyday just about, I still love it, I've had it for all these
years now, I did
upgrade the suspension, I did upgrade the brakes, that's great but I'm telling you the
number one thing that's great about this truck is
hearing that supercharger whine, again I'd like to thank the Scotty Kilmer
channel and everyone for watching my video, hope to see you all soon, thank you
again, well that was this week's video, and
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