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He never took it, He bought the truck Brand New. He had the truck in his driveway with 20 sometwhat miles on itand swapped the pulley and put on a new belt, and we headed to the track. But stock lightning where I'm at usualy run in the low 9's or higher 8's in the 1/8.
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you are either seeing people that push their motors beyond it's limit or people who use nitrous foolishly without the proper safety equiptment. I know of many many people with nitrous and can't think of a sigle person that blew their motor on nitrous. I ran it on my old motor UNTUNED for 4 years and had 121k miles and ran like a top when I pulled the motor. I can't think of anyone who put a s/c or turbo on their car that can make that claim!
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Thats true. But I'm just saying I have seen more people with nitrous blow their cars up then people with turbo or s/c. So I dont think that s/c or t/c does the same to a engine as n20
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I dont think ford would put out Vehicles with superchargers on them if they were not going to make it over 121k Miles. A buddy of minebought a 02 Lightning brand new and that same day he bought it heputon a diff pulley and was running high 7's in the 1/8 and he drove it everyday to work and as a daily driver.A couple months ago he put it up for saleso he couldget a four door truck and the lightning had 168k mile's on it, and still ran brandnew,and for the six years he had owned that truck he ran it every weekend during drag racing season. I hardly see a nitrous car makeit throughone drag race season.
obviously you like a s/c and I like N2O so we will never agree 100% on the subject. I do think we are comparing apples to oranges. I'd hope thatwhen Ford puts out a vehicle with a supercharger they intend on it to last over 121k miles. Look at the 03 Cobra, it comes with manley rods, forged pistons, better fuel system, etc. Does that means the S/C is safer than N2O or they built a better motor? (I'm not sure what the lightning motor has for internals, but I'm sure it's no worse than the GT).As for putting a blower pulley on a lightning, you can't compare adding a few #'s of boost to a truck that was designed to have a blower to a stock GT and adding a 100+ rwhp of nitrous. And for not making it past a season with nitrous. I made it 4 years, JayC has too and many more. I sprayed so much I had toget 50# cylinders and fill my own. I did this on the stock GT motor, untuned, stock 19# injectors, stock MAF, just about everything was stock. Don't get me wrong, I like supercharges but do I think it's safer than nitrous? Not really. Can it be made safe? Sure, with some good tuning it may last for quite some time. N2O and a S/C both have their good and bad. Obviously the bad to the nitrous is having to fill the bottle and that can get costly after a while. But the good to me out weighs the bad, I could run on 87 octane when I didn't spray so gas prices weren't that big of a deal to me, the torque is amazing,and the biggest part is my car ran just as good when it was 95* out as it did when it was 60*. I've seen plenty of blower carsrun nearly a 1/2 second slowerin the dead of summer.
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First of all, I do have a supercharged car and love superchargers, and I also like nitrous, so dont get me wrong here. But as for what you said aboutputting a blower pulley on a lightning and getting a few #'s of boost, I guarantee you he ran faster with that pulley swap than he would if he put a 100 shot of nitrous on his truck. Down here stock lightning's run 9.0's-9.10, and he ran a 7.90's, so he dropped over one second faster with just that pulley swap and no tune. I see guys running 9.50's in fox body 5.0 stock with just 3:73 gears and thenaddeda 125 shot of nitrous and a tune and onlybrought it down to 8.60's-8.80's. I know we are going to disagree about things, but I have no problem with anyone on this forum, and think all of you are very nice to talk to and toget info from, but we all are going to see things in a different perspective. Heck before it's over with I'll probably add a small shot of nitrous to my cobra. lol. But I have got nothing against younitrous guys.
I had a stock 5.0 with 3.73s, 150 shot and a decent set of drag radials and ran some 7.7s. I ran some 8.0s and 7.9s with 125 shot. It takes very poor driving to run 8.6s and 8.8s with that much gas. A friend of mine had a lightning with nothing but a pulley swap and it ran 8.4s. Sounds like your friend might have something he don't know he has.
I HAVE INSTALLED A SEX 82117 NITROUS KIT FOR MY 1999 COBRA. IAM PLANNING ON RUNNING ONLY 75 SHOT. I ALSO ADDED THE TRACTION CONTROL WIDOW SWITCH, BOTTLE PRESSURE GAUGE, BLOW DOWN TUBE. MY COBRA ONLY HAS 40,000 MILES AND I DO NOT WANT TO HURT IT. DOES ANYONE THINK IT WILL BE SAFE TO RUN SOMETIMES. THE WINDOW SWITCH IS PROGRAMMED TO NOT SHOOT NITROUS IN 1ST GEAR AND TO CONE ON AT 3,000 RPM AND SHUT OFF AT 6,000 RPM. I STILL HAVE NOT TURNED IT ON YET AND IAM LOOKING FOR ADVISE IF THE SETTINGS WILL BE SAFE FOR THE ENGINE
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