6 Speed Ford Lightning - Early Test Drive 

@@24hen1985 On white-man's RU-vid? Perhaps.... on the white-man's iPhone?

Jameriquai Erna he is just jealous that the hood dosen’t have this much freedom

LOLOLOL...I thought the exact same thing! Badass!!

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+dopex2xdeath Looks more like the handle off his floor jack... but it works, I guess..

your fucking stupid

Ford Lighting's only come in automatic he built it from scratch fam

dopex2xdeath he's also got no shoes on

dopex2xdeath It will sure beat your car in a race though lmao.

@Kongcrete 818 you mean the raptor?

Even if ford made a another lightning, it would probley have a eco boost v6 in it.

Today Ford showed everyone their new all electric F150 Lightning . May 19 2021

Instead of the all electric POS, we should've gotten this years 4×4 Whipple powered 5.0 F150 labeled as a Lightning package 😞

DatCarGuy310 -alot of power! That is one fast truck.

I would say he put your life in danger!

Lol. I wonder what the permanent set will look like.

Thank you! It's the only way I would have it.

Close.... It's a jack handle. I've got the interior finished now, and there's a proper shift lever in place.

that's good !

AaronDC8402 Let us see some pics!

John Interceptor Check out the last couple of pages in this post. www.lightningrodder.com/forum/showthread.php?t=105975

AaronDC8402 Love it! Nice work, good sir!

+One strange one I have a couple other videos on RU-vid that show the interior finished. I've got the shifter biased a little towards the driver, and I think it worked out perfect.

+AaronDC8402 yes i have seen them it worked out very well looks factory kust like an enthusiast would want !!

Chase Swanton i had a 2001 f150 5 speed manual and for whatever reason didnt come stock witha tach. Ended up stealing one that had one from a junkyard and putting it in, had to take it to a dealership to get it reflashed. Guy at the dealership told me it would work but that he would try. Should have seen the look on his face when it worked.

+tim ray Rear end gears are 3.73:1. The trans is a T56 Magnum with the wide ratios (2.97:1 1st and .5:1 6th).

Nice man what kind of RPM you see at 80 in 6th ? and how much better MPG with the T-56.

+tim ray It's 1700 rpm at 80. A lot quieter than the auto which was 2500 at 80. Fuel economy is 20 mpg if highway only. I don't do much highway only driving though.

Nice! Thanks for the reply's.

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+BayouBassKing This is the thread about the transmission swap. You can search my forum name on LightningRodder to see some of the other stuff I've done. www.lightningrodder.com/forum/showthread.php?t=105975

+AaronDC8402 Awesome thank man!

+ItzHiiper This is pretty close to a bolt-in swap at this point. The following link contains about all the info you could want to know. www.lightningrodder.com/forum/213-lightning-hd-auto-standard-conversion/105975-2001-lightning-6-speed-build-thread.html

+MJorgy5 It doesn't do too much just-highway driving. I've had a few tanks that have averaged 20 mpg. If I did all highway and took it easy, I'm sure it could do better. It's hard to drive it easy with the manual though.

Feels perfect to me.

danwil752002 weird ass

I never really intended for this to be a review. I have been working on a mic setup and multiple cameras to do "reviews" of some of my vehicles. Look for that sometime in the next few weeks.

You're right. Ford never built a manual version. This is a custom swap.

+Mike Smith Not since 2004.

naw

Think it might have actually been AutoZone. Not sure though. It's been a while since I bought it.

Who is canelo?

I think the reasoning was that they didn't have a manual transmission at the time that could take all that torque, but that sounds kinda ridiculous when you look at what can be done with stock supra transmissions from around the same time

+IamManateeMan Agh nah..it has nothing to do with TQ.

You should plan on about $6k for all the parts (including a new T56 Magnum). I did it over the course of a few months. I'm guessing it was about 40 hours of work.

Nope. Floor jack handle.

Too much gas!

And very expensive gas/petrol here... 5 dollars per gallon..

***** That's very nice.. I want to live in USA..

Lukáš Luksov Zajíček Gas has gotten down to 1.99 in Texas and Oklahoma

they are in EU i have mine in Norway

+CrazyIrishCarl I always wear my seatbelt. Shouldn't be an issue. Also, the real shifter is in place now. See my updated video, ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-zibe-reUuoY.html

+db It really all depends on how you scale your 1 to 10. I'm going to call it a 6 or 7 with 1 being changing your own oil and 10 being converting a Geo Metro into a mid engine V6 race car.

+db This link contains most of the technical info about my swap. www.lightningrodder.com/forum/213-lightning-hd-auto-standard-conversion/105975-2001-lightning-6-speed-build-thread.html

+AaronDC8402 awesome thanks for the info...great build

So far. I've got an upholstery shop modifying my passenger seat, but I did all the mechanical and electrical stuff. Thanks for the compliment!

Man if i ever come across a good amount of money im coming to pay you for a conversion like that on my lightning...

www.lightningrodder.com/threads/2001-lightning-6-speed-build-thread.105975/

There's also a post in there that I did about setting up the hydraulic clutch. Use the Ford master cylinder. Most people use a Viper master which is more work and a stiffer clutch.

@@AaronDC8402 appreciate the info!

@@AaronDC8402 Now that you've been driving it .. is there anything you would have done different. I don't know if it was yours.or someone else's I was reading about but it said 6th gear just bogged the truck down to much in the highway. Have you checked fuel milage by the way driving normal on the highway by chance compared to.when it was an automatic? Just picked on my lighting engine to go in my 97 Lariat 2wd. It's factory 4.6 5 speed.

@@19jody72 6th gear is fine for the highway for me. If I'm towing anything and driving through the East TN hills, I end up back and forth between 5th and 6th a lot. I have the 0.5:1 6th which is what I would suggest. Unloaded on the highway I get 20mpg. I used to get 16 with the auto. The only thing I might have done different would be to put a higher quality clutch in the first time. I just changed my clutch at 25,000 miles. It was already down to the rivets.

TKTmon Yea, that was temporary. The interior is back in the truck now with a nice LoKar shift lever in place. I plan to make a new video soon showing the swap complete.

AaronDC8402 haha talk about a long throw shifter.

TKTmon That was the point of the custom shift mechanism I built. Get the handle up where it should be, but the throws are still really short.

+Boomer DeClerk Don't worry, it's only temporary for test driving. The interior is back together now. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-9d_BV6QDr10.html ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-zibe-reUuoY.html

+Tyler Wallace Floor jack handle

Clutch is American Powertrain single organic disc for Ford mod motor. Transmission (also from American Powertrain) is a Tremec T-56 Magnum with wide set gear ratio. I haven't taken the truck to a track since getting the manual in. I'm hoping to do that this spring or summer. It definitely feels faster. The gear ratios are better than the auto, and there is less parasitic drag on the drivetrain now.

Wow that's awesome, A lightning with a 5-speed manual. Where did you get the 3rd pedal and the quadrant from? An 04-03 cobra??

I bought it from American Powertrain. Also got the clutch and throw out bearing from them.

I do. Still one of my favorite vehicles.

@@AaronDC8402 I have a white t56 Lightning. Also a Knoxville native and used to run with The Squirting Coronas. Are we twins? 😅

I would sell it, but only if it was for enough money that I would want to do it all over again. The manual Lightning is awesome, but you could put one together yourself for cheaper than buying mine. I don't intend to be offensive, I just really like my truck.

AaronDC8402 no I understand I figured that . I was trying my luck lol. Did you do al the labor yourself ? How much in parts round park was it with transmission and all... and maybe how many labor hours ?

I did all the labor myself except for cutting the passenger seat bottom cover and my shift boot. No idea on amount of labor. I was doing the first Magnum install into one of these trucks, so there was a lot of time figuring it all out. I made a good write up on the LightningRodder forum that would save that time. Figure about $6500 in parts and incidentals. www.lightningrodder.com/forum/213-lightning-hd-auto-standard-conversion/105975-2001-lightning-6-speed-build-thread.html

+Colby R It's a single. All Lightnings have been single cab.

AndrewG2425 It had a 4R100.

It's a stock F-150 5-speed pedal assembly.

GoPro Hero 4 Silver

AaronDC8402 Thanks :)