New daily driver.

[Kris Horton]

A couple weeks ago I decided that I needed something that was a little more practical than my Camaro and my Mustang, yet still fast enough to keep my speeding habit satisfied. A friend of mine turned me on to the SVT Lightning. It's a nice truck that's fast and handles pretty well from the factory without feeling too much like a truck. It's already come in handy (for my friends.) I've helped one friend haul a transmission and another a bedframe and a dresser.

I found a black '03 Lightning in Orange County that was very well-maintained, lightly modified, and going for a good price, so I bought it and gave my dad the Camaro. I know it's not a classic, but ultimately I'd like to see it become a modern g-machine. I've already installed Hotchkis springs on it with sway bars, QA1's, and other suspension mods coming very soon.

Here are the performance mods thus far:

4# S/C Pulley (Seeing about 12-13psi at the moment)
K&N Cold Air kit
NGK TR6 spark plugs
Factory Tech Valve Body
Magnaflow muffler
SCT 4-bank chip with dyno tune

Current dyno numbers are 381rwhp and 471tq. I've got a Bassani midpipe and catback setup going on this week, so I should be breaking 400rwhp pretty soon.

Here are some pictures I snapped of it this weekend as well. Hope you guys dig it!

Kris