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April '07 - Jacob's 2000 Lightning

Jacob's 2000 SVT F-150 is #3414, of 4,966 for that model year, 1 of 928 in Oxford White. He acquired the Lightning in September of 2005 after his Land Rover was totaled. He & his father were looking for a replacement. Jacob had a list of vehicles in mind including an LS1 powered Firebird WS6 or an LT1 powered WS6 and 3rd choice was the Ford Lightning. After checking with the insurance company his father convinced him to go with the Lightning. Jacob spent his free time searching autotrader and ebay and found his truck. His parents, wanting to surprise him pretty much blew off the truck saying that they weren't too impressed with it, and would keep looking for another. That Friday, I was coming home from college and saw it in the driveway.

After getting the SVT F-150 the SES light was on and a Ford dealership had mentioned it was due to the chip and everything was fine, however this was not the case, after about 4 months he got the DTC codes and it said banks 1&2 were running lean, at the time he didnt really know about programming and thought it had to do with the chip, well about 7 months later coming back from a car show in August, the number 4 piston decied to get rid of one of its rings and the motor was toast, then 4 days after getting the truck back (after waiting for 4 months) the transmission burned up, thanks to the first shop apparently knocking of the converter and draining the fluid. When the 4 month long headache stopped Jacob now had a practically new truck, with a warranty, new factory longblock, and new transmission. 100,000 miles on the clock and still ticking on the chassis at least.

Dyno results 376whp 468wtq on street tune

Modifications- JDM 4# crank pulley Polished JLP Coolant expansion tank replacing the stock one and washer fluid tank, Polished AEM Brute Force cold air, Dynomax bullets and Magnaflow X pipe, LFP E-fan, self painted graphite wheels with 3 coats of clear. polished emblems, blackouts on the headlights and tails, SCT Xcal2

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