Can a V8 Still Compete in a Turbocharged World? We Tune & Drag Race Three Trucks To Find Out!

which Ford f-150 is the fastest well this is the video where we are going to

find

out here I have

three

trucks

we have an f-150 with a 2.7 liter EcoBoost v6 I have a 5 liter coyote v8 and of course the 3.5 liter EcoBoost and in this video we'll put them on the

drag

strip, but also with a five star performance

tune

tune

d to

find

out if it's the v8 or it's the

turbocharged

ring that will win. You gotta see This. This video is brought. to you by our friends at 5-star tuning check them out using the link below.

They have a wide variety of towing performance and fuel economy settings for your truck. Will this

three

-way comparison be predictable? I'm not so sure because that coyote v8 is really loud with a tune, that's how we'll do this 3 truck comparison

race

first. I'm going to get the numbers on each of the

trucks

in the 7, the 5 liter ecoboost and the 3.5 liter and then we'll compare them. Between themselves, the 2 7 will raise the 5 liter and finally the winner of that test will

compete

against the 3.5 liter, but before that let me turn the numbers into seven, here you know, all these trucks are silver, but underneath from the hood of this one.

It's the 2.7 liter EcoBoost v6 and the factory rating on the 87 octane crankshaft is 325 horsepower and 400 pound-feet of torque and all of these trucks have a 10-speed automatic and are all four-by-fours. Gotta get the baseline and this Ford 2.7 liter stock tuning everything stock the truck is totally stock running four wheel drive to make sure I'm on high traction control disabled advanced track also disabled let's go to increase the brake target to about 20 that was fast 6.15 the tuning process is very easy in this case we are using the HP tuner activation device with the five star custom tunes at the end of this video I'll show you an overview quick how-to here 5-star man dinner results 2.7-liter ecoboost v-6 with significant increase in power and torque with a small

turbocharged

engine, power increases quickly, peak torque arrives shortly after 3500 rpm to 4300 RPM, the 93 octane performance tune adds almost 75 horsepower and 90 pound feet of torque at the wheels this is the tuned midget on the F-150 with the 2.7 engine say four point eight three four point eight three that's pretty crazy at sea level in a truck with a two point seven engine under the hood of this truck is actually my favorite This is the five liter V8 from the Coyote and the factory rating is 395 horsepower and 400 foot-pounds of torque.

Really interesting, same torque output as the 2.7, so I need to baseline a 5 liter flavor with its stock. 93 octane. I am going to do the same procedure as with all the trucks raised. I'm going to turn off the traction control. I don't want the electronic babysitters taking my energy away, okay, here we go, six point nine four is the baseline. for the five later, let's see what it does in June, so how did it do on a dyno? Making extra power from a naturally aspirated engine with just a tune is not easy, however, the five star guys managed it as I revved it closer to the big sound.

As a result, you get fifty-five additional horsepower and fifty pound-feet of torque at the wheels around 5,800 RPM. Well I want to turn off the traction control in sport mode, that's Ben's track 5.44 in tune mode tune 5 liter 5.4 for the The noise was pretty spectacular. Is it good to hear a proper V8 even with a stock exhaust system? Well they got some numbers on a 2.7 and also the 5 liter but Jacob is here to take on me so I'll drive the 2 7. Cool that's my one and you I mean you did that tune right yeah you developed a lot man, so I'm a little nervous, but I think this one could be a little bit stronger mm at 8, so it's already done, but we.

We're doing a quarter mile, a quarter mile right now. Alright, here's a

drag

race

. 2.7 liter Ford vs 5 liter Ford. I'm in a 2.7 liter F-150 and Jacob, the 5 star tuner, we had our hands on that tune. for the 5 liter it's in 4th great on a 2.7 my foot is on the floor if five liters come at me I guess I'll have to go up to seven verses 3-5 good as far as the Ford lineup goes What worries me It is the tourist engine they have apart from the Raptor and limited trucks. The standard rating for the 3.5-liter EcoBoost is 375 horsepower and 475 feet of torque, but this 3.5-liter EcoBoost also has a banked intake system.

This is a benchmark at 3.5. Liter EcoBoost truck, let's see what it can do and the stock tune jammed everything else except that, the intake system, this is the best time for the stock three point five six point three six point three two point timing benchmark stock for good, so how did the 3.5 liter ecoboost fare? On a dyno, the 93 octane performance tune starts making power a little slower than stock, but after 3000 rpm the difference is clear near the 5000 RPM mark the tune adds about a hundred horsepower to the wheels compared to the originals, the increases in power and torque are very impressive. 5,800 RPM there, the truck is gaining a whopping 167 lb-ft of torque over the stock, this is the tuned one, let's see how much faster this truck is 4.3 4.3 Wow, that's low on power, that's pretty crazy, okay, that was fast I mean, we're talking about a full-size crew cab 4x4 truck doing all fours on the groomed surface, however, on the drag strip, which helps, but it's

still

fine, so the f-150 from 2.7 liter took the 5 later, but now josh is here, josh is here, so you're going to run the 35 I'm running in 3 5 so you had it in your hands you know, how to tune it yeah, how do you feel?

I feel pretty good about that. I'm on the 2.7 liter and I'll be taking on Josh. the tuner is 3.5 guys it will end up fine for me but we'll

still

do it for science right? I fell asleep a little, the 3.5 liter is very fast. I have to lean on the bow until it was 35. The winner is, you know, I was hoping for five next, maybe even better than seven, but that wasn't the case today. There are a lot of numbers to share, but yes, in the end, the 3.5-liter Ecoboost was the fastest truck for point three and six. seconds from zero to 60 with a 1.96 second improvement over stock and that includes the banks air intake system on this particular truck which was huge the five liters were also very impressive it gained a second and average in a time from zero to 60 and it's better there. 260 was 5.44, that's pretty impressive.

Finally, the 2.7 liter gained one point three two seconds, not bad and 4.83 was its best result there, 260 times in less than five seconds faster than the 5 liter. I was rooting for the coyote, but the turbocharger seems to be working better, especially with a tune where you can move a lot more air and fuel, crystal right, so how does this work? you know the customer buys, they are engaged, they chose me from above the first thing you want to do when you open, you are engaged, you want to connect it to the obd2 port or the diagnostic port on the vehicle, okay, once it is connected and the meter turns on , you will see three main components, just adjustment and diagnosis of marine gauges.

The first thing you need to do is select tuning under tuning, scroll to the bottom and we will want to read the vehicle, this will allow us to see the stock file for your vehicle and based on that information we will be able to create your Tunes based on the stock file. stock of your vehicle, which tells us what operating system you are using. to mark it with the fuel you are using, as well as your modifications, that process takes between five and fifteen minutes, depending on your application, once the file is read and says it is one hundred percent complete, you will be able to disengage the hitch. from your vehicle, attach the file from a PC directly to an email and you can send it to us.

Okay, just attaching an email. Everything is ready. Meg and a half file. The beautiful thing about Compromise is that it is compatible with PC and Macintosh products just fine, so you can use it on a wide range of products that you couldn't use other tunes for. Once the tune is loaded into the custom tunes folder, you will connect the gear back to your vehicle. go to tuning, under tuning you will select load tune and then under tune you will be able to scroll and load a variety of custom tunes, so select if you want to load performance tune 93, you will select the green check mark. and you will shine your vehicle, that process takes six minutes, you can select several, like if you have the trailer tune or something else, and you can review them, yes you can switch between them, select if you want a daily street tune or if you wanted a tune performance or any of the different tune-up offers we make for each vehicle and you can swipe to select the one you want and load it.

It's a quick process any time you want to change your tuning. Okay, now I can go back too. so go back to stock, similar process, yes, similar process has to be implemented on the cartoon vehicle, it will select load stock, it will be a stock file that will send it from the start and show it back to the vehicle.