Ford F150 EcoBoost vs Dodge Ram SRT-10: Muscle Trux Build-Off Begins - Truck Tech S7, E7

a Viper and an EcoBoost will be transformed into ultimate muscle trucks which one has the edge we'll shake them down for power braking handling and speed [Music] [Applause] [Music] when it comes to trucks there's no doubt that the pickup is the workhorse of America but that don't mean we can't have a little fun with it too every now and again the factories will release a special high performance edition of a regular truck and some time ago we did a shootout between two of them the Chevy 454 SS and a first gen Ford lately and they were each built in two totally different styles now I mean once a small block once a big block you got naturally aspirated and want the turbo I'd said it pretty different so we decided it was time for a little shootout of our own we reached given the same exact amount of money and told to go and purchase whatever kind of truck we could dream up not to mention the same budget for the bill and use this choice of where you want to spend that money you could throw it dönitz handling even styling an appearance totally up to you buddy and when we're done we're gonna compete in a series of tests to determine which truck is superior pickups are waiting and we can't wait to show you guys oh yeah I picked out let's kick it off when it comes to muscle trucks no there are only a few choices you've got the early nineties cyclones and typhoons first-gen ford lightnings and the 454 sss and then you have the second gen lightnings and the Silverado SS but all of those pale in comparison to what I chose that's right I found a viper truck and today this still holds the record for the world's fastest production truck and it gets there with a massive v10 underneath the hood an automatic transmission for 56 gears out back and a positron and I don't know what Austin's gonna choose but I can guarantee you this one thing it's not going to be anywhere near as cool as this you're a fool dude how's that red truck so predictable it's a muscle truck shootout I figured why not go big or go home and pick the fastest truck they ever made I thought it was about us getting trucks and building a muscle truck yeah it's like the big guy the gym no the small guy goes to the gym to get me well speaking of small guy I see you picked about the smallest one you could an f-150 and I'm guessing yep you've got the little cute flower on the door so that means you've got the v6 underneath the hood I bet you ain't rockin turbos plus when you trying to prove anyway so I don't need turbos want to have eight point three liters in ten suelen ridiculous well I hope you have some serious upgrades planned for this thing but we'll get to those later on how about we start by just seeing how these trucks do bone stuff unless we roll money keep up if you can yeah plenty yeah so the truck that I picked for the muscle truck shootout is about as good as you could buy a 2005 Dodge Ram srt10 now underneath the hood is an eight point three liter v10 the very same one that was found underneath the hood of the Dodge Viper which was one of America's greatest sports comes yeah I'm very aware this is the muscle truck build-off / quasi shootout but I'm not wanting to be told what to do it I really like listening to rules and staying inside the lines and that's why I chose the 2015 Ford f-150 SuperCrew platinum well will drive on my dad yeah I'm crazy I did pick the v6 3.5 litre EcoBoost it's not about what you start with it's about where you go and the journey it takes to get there that's where the funs at right away you can tell that this truck does not mess around and it was built before the electronic nanny came on board most of the vehicles that you'll find today my right foot is directly connected with a cable to the throttle body on the front of this engine so whenever I put my foot down you're going there's no delay no traction control none of that other stuff that's going to interfere between you and a good time as fat dudes putting out three hundred sixty five ish horsepower and about 420 pounds of torque and that's not too bad considering it's got two turbos and a v6 I mean I would really expect much more than that the v10 is backed up by the 48 re which is a four-speed automatic that's normally only reserved behind the Cummins turbo diesel so you know this is a strong transmission and in the back we've got a Dana 60 axle one of the strongest ones that Chrysler makes and it has a 456 ring and pinion gear in it so you want to talk about pepie that this truck fits the bill this truck is comfortable not gonna lie nice leather seats it's got the Platinum trim the woodgrain heated seats and probably massage you dual split a seat I mean all the benefits and features you could ask for in a late model vehicles such as this it's just nice now you want to talk about a decked out truck this is it right here every single option imaginable in 2005 can be found in this luxurious interior I mean you've got a CD player with FM radio six presets two cupholders in the front two cupholders in the back 4-speed automatic transmission nice little computer up top that tells you how poor our fuel mileage you're getting and has a red push-button starter Oh power seats too so yeah just about as nice as you want it this drunk-ass I can guarantee you that we have some pretty big plans for these trucks as far as I'm concerned the RAM well that's getting more of everything more horsepower less suspension is getting lower more sound you know just about everything that you'd want in a muscle truck yeah we'll tweak the looks a little bit but for me that's not important what's important is what happens when you put your right foot down to the floor as far as kind of improving it well more power obviously blue that's a given when that comes more torque hopefully this week we're gonna need it the stats put some nice tires and wheels on it it's a no brainer step fun with it can't fun with Kenya next the dyno gives us a baseline then off to the track where the ramp flexes its muscles all right let's do this see what she's gonna do is it off yeah you don't hear it sounds like you're sewing a blanket I know right the only way to gauge the performance enhancements of our muscle truck build off is by getting a baseline first as far as we know both the Dodge Viper truck and Austin's f-150 EcoBoost are completely stock it's only 350 horsepower 396 pounds of torque 350 350 s more to what I thought oh this crazy thing is these are only rated at 360 at the flywheel take it Alan out honestly you sure you ain't got any tuning loaded up already or something hey nah man no I was thinking if we broke 300 that will be good all right well let's do another one to back it up make sure it's doing what it's doing see if we can repeat that [Music] all right so 346 horsepower and 409 pounds of torque okay that's kind of hard to believe considering the baseline specs on these trucks go 365 at the crank and 420 of torque and normally you expect a little bit of drivetrain loss sometime around 10 to 15 percent depending on the transmission and the rear axle so I would expect a number in the low 300s now I kind of looked online and there's a few people getting dyno numbers a little bit all over the place but here's the thing this is a used truck we don't know the history on it the only thing I can think of as maybe it has a tune on it I don't know yeah we didn't plug anything in to find out but for our purposes this is a good baseline poll for what the truck is right now as it sits before we do anything to it all right well uh let's swap em out see if they're little uh little red wagon will do so I don't know what this is gonna make but I guess as long as it makes more than 350 I'll be okay pretty much guaranteed it will [Music] 434 on the horse and 485 not bad for 3045 [Music] 436 on the horse and 477 on the torque so we dropped a little on the torque but very consistent on horsepower I like the sound of that but too consistent runs each we can move on a more baseline test whatever you got now mad for a little red wagon I know [Music] we're a 10 cm Motorsports Park to get a feel for the speed handling and braking before we tear these trucks down I'll build on all right we're gonna start this off with a little slalom run not really scientific here we just kind of based out the cones maybe he's thinking to himself what have I got myself into not really good think we hit one company see what he thinks it looked like it kind of rolled a little bit what do you think suspension wise it kind of looked like it was leaning over well I mean obviously the drivers full of skill but the truck could use some handling help you are operating this finely tuned machine at its limit the performance it's art seen the far side of the truck nice squeaky brakes you got there hey that's just a sign of high performance right dude clean run looks like it's handling pretty well I mean still got some body roll but you're pretty tight to the cones we don't really have them spaced out far enough to get on throttle too much but I would say rough comparison wise just by looking I mean this is not scientific or measured it looks like this truck is handling it a little bit better than the f-150 but yes I would agree that being said you still got to work and like this I think the hydraulic power steering pump a little low or something because I'm gonna hustle that wheel back and forth but uh this thing you spunk automatically though you're lower you got wider tires I figured it would a handle better it's not really a surprise you know what's next maybe a braking test yeah let's do brake it's rearrange the cones next a bleep LT truly wants a set of slicks on this thing [Music] now LT came clean that he stacked the deck in his favor with what some call the most powerful factory truck ever but it's not about what you start with it's about where you end up I guess that's true but today is about establishing a baseline for our muscle trucks build up so we can rate and score our improvements our only rule is that we're tied to 15 grand budget here we go right now we're testing braking from a 60 mile an hour on a story so there's one thing you may not know but I probably have a pretty good advantage here because this truck actually comes from the factory with 15 inch rotors up front no they're quite large I saw that we'll go ahead and record the best of two runs yeah not bad almost the same just a couple feet shorter well I don't really know how the truck did at first cuz got nothing to compare to so we'll find out here in a second but what I do know is when you throw the anchor out it actually stops in a hurry it kind of throws you ahead so I'm impressed from the press of my truck I don't know about this oh no way oh no that was not 60 dude the last time I look down it was at 59 miles an hour 59 that's that's actually really good alright so here's the problem with my truck it's wearing a - 4550 22 which is a taller tire than it came with from the factory you already make an excuse I just did one run this is math just hold up hear me out for a second okay it's supposed to have a 245 40 on it now because the tires bigger the speedometer is actually going to be reading slower so what I'm going to on the speedometer is actually going much faster so once you ramp it up to about 65 if you can get there and see if it evens things out yeah yeah physics math I don't even get it [Music] Austin's second run was pretty consistent a tape measure will record stopping distance for both that will reference later on so this next test is not exactly scientific but it's something that we like to do to rate all the project trucks that we do and that is burning out for distance then rollin burnout rules are simple roll the truck up with the back tires on the white line sit there POW will break it get them spinning as fast as you can as long as you want to as soon as you let off the brake see how for you go to the wheel stop turning alright well you got the newer truck so why don't you go first and only make sense oh and by the way if you don't spend both tires you get half the points ah it's not fair that is not fair now the way a man does a burner tells a lot about the character of that man if he just sits there and spins and spins and spins and tries to make a smoke show that's how you can tell he's compensating for something but the real truth lies with how long those marks are and his uh I don't think they're gonna measure up [Music] smell bad hey we got two towers turning I'm actually impressed because I'm pretty sure that's an open differential but let's figure out where would he stop now normally for our official burnout distance we kind of go by where you start to see the individual parts of the tread I think we're over here buddy you think you're over here I mean give me some cream it's pretty light yeah well uh yeah can't see it from here on out huh so that's Austin's mark yeah dude two towers turn it don't they a while for it to settle win a gear at like 2:00 and get those stars spinning fast but uh hey then son let me tell you this and this is me being honest that did a lot better than I thought it would me too I don't think it's gonna be at the SRT but it did pretty good to the floor that's all she's got kind of not really fair I'm not giving you any more than this though not surprised by the result that's just not pleased really okay so just judging based off of an estimate here that's like one two that's four times what you did but hang on dude I caught another gear I got at least another 15 feet I'm just seeing that all right so three what three quarters it stopped it shifted more burnouts so I got 15 more feet okay yeah that's why you want a muscle truck not a grandpa truck is for doing this kind of stuff right here let me remind you it's not about what we start out with it's about where we know what's next I don't know let's find something else to do that was fun look at this go then go over to the technical force for speed laps [Music] all right we finally got this dude out on the track and it's obviously not where it belongs after all it's a pull with Drive f-150 it's a pickup truck for a stock truck I'm actually impressed with my first little bit here out on the track I'm certainly not pushing it to the limit yet but it just it feels pretty flat it's not body rolling too much you just have to put light pressure on the brakes and it'll slow down I've got to say even though it don't sound cool it's still you know what handles quite well really does the tires kind of hearing screaming a little bit they give you plenty of warning before they're about to let go just all about having fun so I guess we can't come to a road course without actually doing a couple of times laps so just kind of let it all hang out have some fun good to go uptime is on you baby three two one go look body so Austin's truck I actually I'm kind of impressed with it so far it seems like it's doing pretty good for having a small turbocharged v6 engine I know people give them a hard time from such a little engine but those two turbos on there they're very responsive and they're very torque I honestly can't wait to see what he pulls out to modify this truck to make it a little bit better now he is at a clear horsepower disadvantage now but that's okay because knowing what I know about trucks is you can easily make up that difference in power handling I guess we'll have to see what he comes up you may decide to lower I don't know he may decide to lift it it's hard to say but uh well times are ticking away let's see how he does and time so I told you ahead of time what was kind of a good range of some of the other trucks that we've brought up here right what did I say I don't know like two minutes oh okay so some of the last trucks we've had here anywhere between like a minute 11 and a minute 19 killing me smalls what I get pretty good 1:16 oh do this yeah no so you did pretty good so that means I've got my work cut out for me in that RIM I don't maybe make it match this time we'll see yeah few corners well Oh Lewis but uh we kept it in there so I know this trucks got the muscle to beat that f-150 but I don't be honest I don't know if I have the skills to do it but uh oh yeah either I know the truck definitely has the skill so we'll see what happens there's a lot of outer angle here hi three two one go well he started off right threshold braking that means you run that car or that truck right up to the apex as far as you can get on those brakes as hard as you can right before you lose traction that's threshold braking rattle out Hammond down to the next turn the truck way better set up what I got an f-150 it's got bigger brakes bigger tires that are wider that means you've got more traction those front tires are gonna bite when he turns it's not gonna want to slide out might want to push just a little but not too much and he's lower and I don't think his truck has neared up body rolling my god so probably do better overall what's he gonna have what's he gonna have man Mickey got me man I couldn't tell you if that was faster slow fast truck huh not a fast driver how did I do come on 109 whoa no no dang 500 dude what do you expect well here's the thing I know this truck if you put a pro driver behind the seat could be a lot faster but uh but you hit that apex in that second turn right on I bet because that's where the biggest time gap is yeah there's there's a lot there about way off when I got in the bed there's only one way to officially close out the day burnout burnout I'm down [Applause] Oh

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Id: 4XEYcgOhGeo

Length: 21min 32sec (1292 seconds)

Published: Sun May 03 2020