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When the name Ford F-150 SVT Lightning is mentioned, most enthusiasts think of the second generation, which was built for 1999-2004. And the rendering we have here is an example of this, with the work turning the road-biased performance truck into a drag strip monster.
When the Blue Oval introduced the bed hero we're talking about, this was animated by a 16-valve SOHC 5.2-liter Triton V8 engine working with an Eaton blower, which delivered 360 hp and 440 lb-ft (597 Nm) of torque.
For the 2001 refresh, those numbers were raised to 380 hp and 450 lb-ft (610 Nm), which allowed for a 5.4s 0-60 mph (96 kph) sprint and a quarter-mile time of 13.9 seconds, figures that are still respectable today.
Nevertheless, since we now live in an era when you can grab a 9s car straight from the factory, this pixel portrait takes the F-150 SVT Lightning to a whole new level.
The supercharged driving experience, with the instant throttle response and the badass soundtrack, is still here. Nevertheless, motivation now comes with the help of an extreme Roush setup, which you can see in one of the slides of the Instagram post below.
Of course, the added muscle required a boost (pun intended) in the cooling department. And, as far as the visual level is concerned, the transformation provides a fine balance between the understated factory look and tuner vibes, with the lower front fascia serving as the perfect example of this.
The drag strip-friendly setup of the truck involves super-sticky Hoosier rubber, which is wrapped around Centerline's Convo Banshee wheels. Actually, the look of the combo inspired us to come up with the nickname in the title.
And those meaty fenders you see are simply beefier incarnations of the stock units, albeit with the side exhaust exiting the vehicle just before the rear wheels grabbing plenty of attention.
Think of this digital work as a co-op imagination exercise - digital artist Timothy Adry Emmanuel did the heavy lifting, but we're invited to join the creative party.
"The [wheel] size pictured here is completely fictional, but just imagine if it had 18-inch Convo Banshees, man, that would be rad!" the pixel master states. Besides, his further explanations instantly bring a second "livery" to mind: "I was going to do a scallop paintjob, but the stripes seem to work really well!"
For the 2001 refresh, those numbers were raised to 380 hp and 450 lb-ft (610 Nm), which allowed for a 5.4s 0-60 mph (96 kph) sprint and a quarter-mile time of 13.9 seconds, figures that are still respectable today.
Nevertheless, since we now live in an era when you can grab a 9s car straight from the factory, this pixel portrait takes the F-150 SVT Lightning to a whole new level.
The supercharged driving experience, with the instant throttle response and the badass soundtrack, is still here. Nevertheless, motivation now comes with the help of an extreme Roush setup, which you can see in one of the slides of the Instagram post below.
Of course, the added muscle required a boost (pun intended) in the cooling department. And, as far as the visual level is concerned, the transformation provides a fine balance between the understated factory look and tuner vibes, with the lower front fascia serving as the perfect example of this.
The drag strip-friendly setup of the truck involves super-sticky Hoosier rubber, which is wrapped around Centerline's Convo Banshee wheels. Actually, the look of the combo inspired us to come up with the nickname in the title.
And those meaty fenders you see are simply beefier incarnations of the stock units, albeit with the side exhaust exiting the vehicle just before the rear wheels grabbing plenty of attention.
Think of this digital work as a co-op imagination exercise - digital artist Timothy Adry Emmanuel did the heavy lifting, but we're invited to join the creative party.
"The [wheel] size pictured here is completely fictional, but just imagine if it had 18-inch Convo Banshees, man, that would be rad!" the pixel master states. Besides, his further explanations instantly bring a second "livery" to mind: "I was going to do a scallop paintjob, but the stripes seem to work really well!"
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