Been Playing With The F-150 Configurator

"MtrRider Just Wants Doritos" (MtrRider) 11/16/2013 at 19:56 • Filed to: None

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The cheapest way into a 6.2L F-150 is a XLT super cab with 4x2. It costs $39,675 with zero options, just the big engine. If you add 4x4 and the 3.73 locking axle, it costs $44,005.

A Raptor, with a 6.2 engine, 4x4 and a 4.10 locking axle starts at $44,415. For $410 more you get all the Raptor goodies.

What do you think, Oppo?

PatBateman > MtrRider Just Wants Doritos 11/16/2013 at 20:00

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Depends. Will it ever see dirt?

MtrRider Just Wants Doritos > PatBateman 11/16/2013 at 20:03

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That's up to you. Even if the answer is "never" you still get a Raptor, and the resale on them is much better than any other truck.

PatBateman > MtrRider Just Wants Doritos 11/16/2013 at 20:07

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True, but you can negotiate the price down on the XLT. Less wiggle room on the Raptor.

MtrRider Just Wants Doritos > PatBateman 11/16/2013 at 20:25

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Good point, dealers will be less willing to negotiate on a Raptor. Although I know for a fact you can get Raptors for $500 over invoice reliably.

Pabuuu, JDM car enthusiast & Italian parts hoarder > MtrRider Just Wants Doritos 11/16/2013 at 20:46

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Raptors look really cool.

Especially in orange.

MtrRider Just Wants Doritos > Pabuuu, JDM car enthusiast & Italian parts hoarder 11/16/2013 at 20:48

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Orange was the best color. They stopped painting them Molten Orange in 2012, although you can get a ST in that color now.

Busslayer > MtrRider Just Wants Doritos 11/16/2013 at 21:50

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What about a F250? I think you can go all the way up ty 4.30 gears with a rear locker. You can even get rubber floors and vinyl seats if you want.

Dingers Ghost, Champion Jockey > MtrRider Just Wants Doritos 11/16/2013 at 21:51

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I mean paying that $410 extra is waaaay cheaper than it would cost to turn the XLT into a Raptor.

MtrRider Just Wants Doritos > Busslayer 11/16/2013 at 22:07

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Completely different beast. Solid axles up front for one thing.

thebigbossyboss > MtrRider Just Wants Doritos 11/16/2013 at 22:19

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Can you still get pickups with a stick?

desertdog5051 > thebigbossyboss 11/17/2013 at 00:23

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Not in the 150.

desertdog5051 > MtrRider Just Wants Doritos 11/17/2013 at 00:30

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When they can make a truck that is more than cosmetically an off road truck, I would consider it. And I drive a Ford truck.

http://www.autoguide.com/auto-news/2011…

MtrRider Just Wants Doritos > desertdog5051 11/17/2013 at 02:20

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If you believe that a Raptor frame can be bent with anything but reckless stupidity you are an idiot. Let me tell you about the frame bending run.

There is this company called Outlaw Offroad. When the Raptor came out, they started a sub company called Outlaw Raptor that specializes in Raptor parts. They bought a few Raptors and started selling parts for them- wheels, bumpers, skid plates, shocks ect.. They got on some Raptor forums and decided to do a "Raptor Run" that owners would buy into. They pre-ran a course (That I have personally driven many times in a bone stock Raptor) at stupid speeds and broke their trucks. They didn;t disclose that doing what they did would break you truck of course, they just modified their and told everyone to put their foot down. (to give an idea of how fast they run, they rolled one of their Raptors, and now all their chase vehicles are caged and built like Class 8 race trucks) They didn't mark the course, they didn't give out maps or course notes. They just had a bunch of noobs go balls to the wall in their brand new trucks. There was no communication between the trucks. Most of the trucks had aftermarket leaf springs (sold to them by Outlaw Raptor), which made the compression softer so it handles small bumps better but was less resistant to bottoming out. All the trucks but 1 that bent a frame had these leafs, and one of the 2 trucks that didn't was stock , the other highly modified.

The Raptor has 12.1" of travel in the rear, from full droop (when the truck is airborne) to fully compressed (bottomed out). At rest or driving, it sits in the middle and has about 6" of uptravel. The truck also has a electronic speed limiter of 100 MPH. Most of these trucks had removed the limiter, and were exceeding (according to one of the drivers on the run) 120 MPH and "jumping the road". Remember none of these people had seen this road before, and had no knowledge of it.

There are a couple spots on the road where it crossed stream beds, and there is a small but steep bump there. About 12" is normal for this. This is why prerunning is so important. If you don't prerun before you go all out, you will break your vehicle weather you are in a Raptor or a Trophy Truck, no fucking exceptions. So if a Raptor hits a 12" almost vertical (like a curb) lip with 6" of uptravel, what happens? Something has to give.

It can be a shock or two. That would almost certainly make the vehicle lose control at high speed. Not good. You can break an axle, again causing a loss of control. You can bend the frame, an $800 fix that doesn't change how the truck behaves. Which option do you choose? The only fault the Raptor has is the bump stops, or rather the lake thereof and the people driving them like Robby Gordon that have no idea what they're doing.

AutoZealot > MtrRider Just Wants Doritos 11/18/2013 at 10:08

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Raptor... Because Raptor, that is all.