lightnings, breakfast lunch and dinner

Subframes and a sticky tire

What year is your dad's lightning? Also, I take from your post that your engine is mostly stock? If so, what is your budget? The explorer top-end swap is common and usually cheap upgrade. Though there are two similiar, but very different set-ups. One has the gt40ps, needs special headers from mac and non-internal egr intake found late 97 and up explorers. The other has the F3ZE gt40s with the internal egr intake, which came in 95-early 97 explorers. All these can be found in a junkyard for a petty reasonable price.

an explorer top end will make an otherwise stock car feel like a rocketship.

my lightning went 13.3ish stock on F1's

went 12.76@107 on nittos a upper pulley (9lbs total boost stock was 8) and a tune
went 12.83@107 on F1s with those mods.

if you got any questions about lightnings lemme know i work for a pretty well known lightning tuner part time

Tfs1 cam will smoke the b cam

if your dad loses have him get ahold of me... i'll have you chasing him again

5.slowmaroon said:

well i want him to do somethin to it like a pulley or intake or sumthin. what are good bolt ons or tune ups for it?

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Personally unless he has the money to buy a built motor i wouldnt add anymore boost. Lightnings are well known for not having the strongest bottom ends. But if you wanted to just do the normal bolt ons. CAI, Pullys, exh., cutsom tune, etc etc but make sure he gets it tuned if he adds more boost or youll sling every rod in it. I got some slicks on rims for a lightning if u want them there practically brand new (truck threw a rod and broke the crank in 3 places)

fox04 said:

Personally unless he has the money to buy a built motor i wouldnt add anymore boost. Lightnings are well known for not having the strongest bottom ends. But if you wanted to just do the normal bolt ons. CAI, Pullys, exh., cutsom tune, etc etc but make sure he gets it tuned if he adds more boost or youll sling every rod in it. I got some slicks on rims for a lightning if u want them there practically brand new (truck threw a rod and broke the crank in 3 places)

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tuning is a MUST on them. but a buddy of mine has put his stock long block truck into the 10's so they arent THAT weak

srtthis said:

tuning is a MUST on them. but a buddy of mine has put his stock long block truck into the 10's so they arent THAT weak

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hes very lucky then. Must have some great tuning.

Good luck, beating him. I guess it depends on what is done to the truck.

From personally experience I will not run Lightnings anymore. There are several 700hp plus trucks running around my area.

fox04 said:

hes very lucky then. Must have some great tuning.

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bunch of them in the mid-low 11's on stock long blocks also. there not as weak as once thought. a lot had to do with pegged MAF's and stuff like that causing them to blow but its known at what point it needs to be swapped out and you always need to keep an eye on it.