Vortec 6200 Z71 vs Raptor?

[Deinonychus]

The Chevy is still a little lighter than you. 5700 to your 6000 I do believe.

I've heard a ruff guide is drop 100lbs and drop a tenth of a second in the quarter mile.

Also, you bought the wrong SVT Ford truck for drag racing (should have bought a Lightning).



Speaking of bad quarter mile times, what is a stock Raptors unsprung weight?

 

[BigJ]

I've heard a ruff guide is drop 100lbs and drop a tenth of a second in the quarter mile.

Definitely true. But in my experience, not at 6k lbs with the power we're pushing. I've found it to be a good rule of thumb for cars in the sub 13sec category usually weighing in under 4k lbs (or more specifically with a power to weight ratio somewhere very roughly around 1hp / 10lbs)

For the Raptor... not so much.

 

[Aaron]

I get really annoyed at the people that want to race me on the road, it's pointless in this truck in my opinion. If you like doing it, hey it's your truck and I'm not judging.

It drives the people trying to get you to race absolutely nuts when you won't do it. It's worse than if you did it and beat them. I used to have all sorts of stupid rice rockets try get me to race when I was on my GSXR-1000. In that case it was more that I knew I'd win and why get a speeding ticket proving I"m faster than Timmy's little Fast and Furious civic with a fart can on it.

If you want a fun twist to the drag race though, if you can find a shut down store with a big parking lot and those medians running all the way across it perpendicular to the way you want to run the race....ask the chevy to race you through that. Just don't go balls to the wall and you'll be good. I hit some in a parking lot like that at 35 and it was pretty fun. Chevy guy won't have much fun though.

 

[Droid]

Dad has a 6.2 Denali pickup (AWD). Have driven his truck plenty of times, think he'd win due to weight (Denali is 5400lb, Raptor is 6200lb). Power is roughly the same, but Raptor gearing is shorter. I have a sneaking suspicion mine would be a bit quicker off road though...i.e., in the environment its designers actually cared about.

Gotta love the fact that he thinks Ford copied Chevy by also making a 6.2L. As though an engine design is simply its displacement. I think you'd be hard pressed to find two popular gas V8s on the market that have more difference in design than the GM and Ford 6.2Ls.

 

[Geno]

Street racing is like the special olympics. Even if you win, you're still retarded.

 

[Dr Tone]

Street racing is like the special olympics. Even if you win, you're still retarded.

Why not come up with a less offensive line, instead of just repeating this assanine one?

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[Geno]

If I want to post less offensive lines, I'll go to the other site. Its a figure of speech, if you have a retarded child, my apologies, but we've all dropped the word retard a million times to describe stupid individuals. Btw, if you don't like to read my comments, or anyone's comments for that matter, you can just skip reading them.

 

[Madcowranch]

Daniel Tosh - Retard joke - YouTube

 

[JP7]

In the dirt dude - that's where you can own that Chevy (and his buddy with the Dodge).
T/Haul ass mode is good, but you would probably want 4H in most conditions.

And it's a short-lived race anyways, as our 100mph limiter kinda gets in the way giving them an unfair advantage. These things aren't race trucks - they're heavy, unaerodynamic pigs with a lot of low end power. That being said, I have played a bit to find out my limits, and the only contender that blew my doors off was a +500hp supercharged Land Rover.

 

[verytalonted]

In the dirt dude - that's where you can own that Chevy (and his buddy with the Dodge).
T/Haul ass mode is good, but you would probably want 4H in most conditions.

And it's a short-lived race anyways, as our 100mph limiter kinda gets in the way giving them an unfair advantage. These things aren't race trucks - they're heavy, unaerodynamic pigs with a lot of low end power. That being said, I have played a bit to find out my limits, and the only contender that blew my doors off was a +500hp supercharged Land Rover.

Thank you for a more sincere and thruthful answer.

I was getting tired of the "holier than thou" crowd.

I refuse to believe that I am the only person on the entire forum that uses the 411HP on the road!?!? Not a damn one of you plays with other drivers with the attention we get!?!? Even if it it just barely edging out the Ram next to you as you leave the stop light (i.e. not flooring it but keeping barely in front of him) or timing your entrance to the freeway to not end up behind granny and her buick.

"Nope, Chris, I only use my truck for Baja racing on the weeknds here in Ohio, because I am a REAL Raptor owner. I am not like you and your pavement pounder."

Well I live in San Angelo, and I am gathering that my little town is different than EVERY other town in the whole world. Angelo, is a college/military town in west Texas. And since our town has a large Ag program at the college, we seem to attract many of what I call "Hurley Cowboys".

And these "Hurley Cowboys" love customizing there pickups to look as if they somehow at the age of 18-20 own a very large ranch in the middle of a swamp. Containing no paved or unpaved roads. All customizing is done with mom/dad money.

There trucks of choice seems to be Dodge Cummins lifted as high and cheaply as possible, with RockStar wheel in a 20+ size and Nitto Mud tires.

And when they see my Raptor-licious (Orange with stripes) truck, they chomp at the bits to 'see' what they can do. When this happens, I feel a tingle in my shorts (I believe they are called balls). And I don't have time to arrange an off road match up (plus the city is moving in on our large off road park, because of dumping it has been shut down.)

Sure this truck was intended for high speed baja prerunning. But if that was the only thing it could do the SVT boys would have never made a 6.2 an option. Hell in 2010 the 5.4 will do the job and in 2011+ a 5.0 will prove adequate.

I am pretty sure it says 'SVT' before it says 'Raptor'? Not 'Raptor by SVT'

I will leave with a Jason Aldean song quote; "There's still black marks on that county road, where we drag raced our pick-ups and mustangs, And weathered all the sun and rain"