Platinum Diesel 7.3 Liter Turbo on 2040-cars
Yakima, Washington, United States
Most people dont know that Ford had a Platinum option way before the current offering in their lineup. In 2001 the Platinum SuperDuty was sold mainly in the southwest United States and I happened to be living there when they arrived, but had to wait a few years for a nice used one to become available. In 2006 I finally had the opportunity to grab this one and took the next few years to get her into her current state...
-tinted windows all around except windshield -triple pillar with Autometer Pro-Comp silver gauges; Trans temp, Boost pressure, and Exhaust temp -PSP custom chip with; Economy, High Idle, Quiet Idle, Towing, and Performance options -Dual Sears Platinum AGM batteries to completely eliminate terminal corrosion -4 inch Icon lift kit with adjustable trac bar -Bilstein off-road shocks at all four corners -20x9 chrome Helo Hulk wheels -35x13.5 ProComp Extreme All-Terrain tires; two at 50% one at 75% and one brand new -Spray-in bedliner -5 inch MBRP straight-piped exhaust -huge AFE washable airfilter -Ford ambulance upper radiator hose allows belt swap without losing coolant ...after those mods, we wanted to set the truck up to last and added a few carefully chosen mods to help with towing and longevity; -Airlift 5000 airbags to level out the rear when towing, or hauling. -B&W pop-up gooseneck hitch with in-bed trailer outlet -6 inch drop Rapid Hitch for bumper pulls -Tekonsha Electric trailer brake controller -In-dash switch makes factory EBPV an amazing engine brake for downhill towing -Ford 6.0 Diesel Intercooler -Ford 6.0 Diesel Transmission cooler -Caterpillar Extended Life Engine Coolant -external Caterpillar Coolant filter -external Caterpillar Transmission filter Long story short...we bought this truck and set it up as our "last truck" but we have recently simplified our lives to where we no longer tow anything of substance, and firing this beast up to drive 3 miles to the post office is not in anyones best interest. |
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Ford F-150 SVT Raptor sales jumping to new heights
Thu, 12 Sep 2013Ford can't seem to build F-150 SVT Raptors fast enough. The off-road-ready trucks have been one of the Blue Oval's most reliable sellers, with record sales in eight of the last 10 months and a 14-percent jump in 2013. That's impressive enough, considering that the least expensive Raptor starts at $44,000. Factor in the modded F-150's fuel economy (it's rated at 11 miles per gallon in the city and 16 on the highway) and a national average gas price, as of this writing, of $3.55 per gallon, and its success is as unlikely as Ford's home team, the Detroit Lions, winning the Super Bowl this year (sorry, Lions fans, we're just quoting the experts in Vegas...).
Yet for some reason, Raptors spend an average of just 15 days on dealer lots before being snapped up, which is a quarter of the 60-day industry average. According to Ford's truck group marketing manager, Doug Scott, it's capability that keeps the Raptor selling strong. "What's helping drive Raptor sales is that Raptor delivers unmatched off-road performance to our customers. Raptor is also proof of our commitment to offer a truck for every customer and continuously improving them to meet our customers' evolving needs."
To address the strong demand for Raptors, Ford will bump production from three trucks per hour to five. Not much, we agree. But building an extra 48 trucks per day, at most, seems like a prudent way of addressing demand without oversaturating what is ultimately a niche market. Check out the press release below for more.
Autocar pits Formula Ford against Germany's finest
Wed, 25 Sep 2013Ford has quite the racing pedigree, but usually, its racers are relegated to the track. Not the new Formula Ford EcoBoost, though. It's a turbocharged, open-wheeled racer complete with a 200-horsepower, 1.0-liter, three-cylinder engine... and it's legal on the roads of the UK.
That's stressed in this video from Autocar, with the mag going so far as to show the car's tax disc and license plates. Being a road-legal offering, it's tempting to see just how well an open-wheeler that delivers racecar-like performance while also netting over 100 miles per gallon (assume this is on the British cycle, for obvious reasons) stacks up against modern performance cars.
Autocar lined up the Formula Ford against an Audi R8 V10, a BMW M6 Gran Coupe and a Mercedes-Benz A45 AMG in a number of situations to see which would come out on top. Take a look below for the full video.
Man turns Ford Fiesta into a one-car band
Mon, 18 Nov 2013The one-man band is a rather ridiculous idea, drawing up images of one person attempting to manipulate several instruments, at once, in a vain attempt at creating music. It's usually represented by silly scenes like this. Interestingly, the concept isn't much more successful when the "man" in "one-man band" is replaced with "car," as we see in this video.
It seems that someone rigged up and edited (699 times, we might add) a Ford Fiesta, a bucket, 12 PVC pipes and the natural sounds that a car makes to come up with a song. Now, we don't recognize the tune, so we've no idea if this is a cover or an original piece. And while it's hardly Beethoven, we have to admire the amount of effort the "conductor" went to in his attempt to turn a subcompact car into a musical instrument(s). Take a look (or listen) below for the entire video.