2024 Race Truck

[Preston]

Curious to hear how some of you all are setting up and building your trucks for speed. I went ahead and ordered a sleeper 2024 F150 with a whipple and “stage 3” of what this dealership is offering but want to know after receiving the truck what are some must do mods.
I have in mind the following ( my truck is a 2wd )
- Diff brace
- 17 inch wheels and tires ( iv heard you have to put a small spacer on the front or the calipers will rub slightly )
- Oil pump gear ( I’ll do that within the first 2 years because if it does break I’m under warranty ) Edit: just learned this is belt driven now.
- I don’t know if you can run E85 on a stock F150 because I come from dodge but I’ll figure that out
- Once my warranty expires smaller pulley and bigger injectors.
- I need to do some long tube headers and run no cats but haven’t found anything yet so any advice on that will help.

What are some of y’all’s thoughts

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[gagliano7]

Nice setup. I know the 5.0 runs on E85. Not sure if they still do that with the whipple because fuel pump might not be able to keep up to the task.

 

[Preston]

Nice setup. I know the 5.0 runs on E85. Not sure if they still do that with the whipple because fuel pump might not be able to keep up to the task.

yeah that and it might need to wait for bigger injectors along with a fuel pump if I want to run E85 with the whipple. Still learning about this truck and taking all information and advice so thanks.

 

[Babbage]

Looks good, are you going to make sleeper videos? Looks like a low end work truck.

You mentioned oil pump so I assume this one ? https://www.melling.com/7-30-18-new-oil-pump-for-ford-5-0l-dohc-engines/

 

[Preston]

Looks good, are you going to make sleeper videos? Looks like a low end work truck.

You mentioned oil pump so I assume this one ? https://www.melling.com/7-30-18-new-oil-pump-for-ford-5-0l-dohc-engines/

I’m talking about this oil pump “ Gears “ sorry should have been more specific

https://www.lethalperformance.com/m...Xvf-1-5vBe_kuUUdUW-eF93JFeZoQF5BoC1WUQAvD_BwE

and I have a Instagram where I post about my car/truck builds and just having fun. Your more than welcome to follow it and I might start a small YouTube channel just for this truck as a informative channel about what iv learned along this build. My IG username is 864_spider

 

[Babbage]

Good deal. I have heard some stories about MMR, i'm sure their pump gears are fine.
Livernois also has some good stuff:
https://www.livernoismotorsports.com/product/LPP701160/gen-iv-coyote-oil-pump-drive-gear

 

[Preston]

Good deal. I have heard some stories about MMR, i'm sure their pump gears are fine.
Livernois also has some good stuff:
https://www.livernoismotorsports.com/product/LPP701160/gen-iv-coyote-oil-pump-drive-gear

Exactly why I posted this so I get some feedback before my truck arrives, I’ll look into those gears and compare them thanks.

 

[Babbage]

Exactly why I posted this so I get some feedback before my truck arrives, I’ll look into those gears and compare them thanks.

Livernois: We offer high quality Powerstorm oil pump gears for a long list of different applications including 3.5L Ecoboost, 4.6L / 5.4L, 5.0L, and 6.2L Ford engines to name a few popular ones. Our oil pump gears are made from Chromemoly billet steel, US made, heat treated, and the hardness is also verified using the Rockwell scale to ensure the best results possible. Oil pumps on the Ford modular engines are mounted on the front of the block and driven directly by the crankshaft. This design is OK but it does subject the oil pump to all the harmonics that crankshaft sees. The stock oil pumps use weak powdered metal gears in them and they tend to fracture and break when subject to harmonics. Broken oil pump gears will cause a loss in oil pressure and when you lose oil pressure serve engine damage can occur. This failure is most commonly seen when superchargers are added to these engines but can also happen due to detonation from bad fuel or a incorrect tune as well. The gears are available on their own for the Mustang 5.0L, but on your F-150 we would have to set you up with a loaded oil pump with the gears already installed since the F-150 and Mustangs are different. We would highly recommend you replace the oil pump and gears at the same time anyways since we do not suggest to put new gears in a worn pump.

 

[Big Dog Daddy]

As of 2021 the current generation Coyote 5.0's now have a belt driven oil pump and nolonger use the crankshaft driven gear pump.

 

[Preston]

As of 2021 the current generation Coyote 5.0's now have a belt driven oil pump and nolonger use the crankshaft driven gear pump.

Ohhh well that’s interesting, I haven’t heard much on that system if it’s problematic or not.

 

[Jmet8]

If you could change your order to a 4x4 I would. This will be so much power that from any kind of launch from a red light it will just blow the tires off instantaneously. But in 4 hi from a stop it will just pin you back. This is the mod you get now so you don’t go dang wish I would have 4x4 later when some guy in his hell cat try you . No weight over rear end means no traction. At minimum get traction bars. Lund is a good tuner for these applications.

 

[FI300]

As mentioned the 5.0 no longer uses the gear setup and the new belt drive so far hasn't had any issues I have heard about.

This shows the Roush supercharger and not the whipple. Seems strange considering Town And country is know for their whipple upgrades. The Roush is a roots type supercharger and the Whipple is a twin screw design. I think the Roush is cheaper.

As far as I know you loose flex fuel capability on the 5.0 when you go forced induction. According to the Roush web site their tune requires 91. "Calibration optimized for 93 octane fuel (premium fuel recommended, compatible with 91 octane)" There are people with aftermarket FI E85 tunes but require modifications to the stock fuel system.

Should be a nice ride especially with the stage three option.

 

[Preston]

If you could change your order to a 4x4 I would. This will be so much power that from any kind of launch from a red light it will just blow the tires off instantaneously. But in 4 hi from a stop it will just pin you back. This is the mod you get now so you don’t go dang wish I would have 4x4 later when some guy in his hell cat try you . No weight over rear end means no traction. At minimum get traction bars. Lund is a good tuner for these applications.

I’m more of a 40 roll kinda guy but completely get what your saying. I honestly just don’t want to deal with the 4x4 as I push into the 850 HP mark.

 

[Preston]

As mentioned the 5.0 no longer uses the gear setup and the new belt drive so far hasn't had any issues I have heard about.

This shows the Roush supercharger and not the whipple. Seems strange considering Town And country is know for their whipple upgrades. The Roush is a roots type supercharger and the Whipple is a twin screw design. I think the Roush is cheaper.

As far as I know you loose flex fuel capability on the 5.0 when you go forced induction. According to the Roush web site their tune requires 91. "Calibration optimized for 93 octane fuel (premium fuel recommended, compatible with 91 octane)" There are people with aftermarket FI E85 tunes but require modifications to the stock fuel system.

Should be a nice ride especially with the stage three option.

You have to ask Town and Country for the whipple option. The default is roush but both are honestly good choices after roush fixed its heat soaking issue but I’m a whipple fan.

 

[Jmet8]

You will blow the tires off any thing less than 60 to 70 mph . Ask me how I know? Pully down and any none Factory tune will put this over 900hp on pump gas. Add in e85 and some fuel mods and you can see close to 1200. Watch Cletus.pull a wheelie from a roll in 4x4 drive. The transfer case is not the weak point. The trans and converter will start to slip From all the extra Torq. Also get the Griptec pulleys and gates green belt.

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