Quote Originally Posted by dagenham View Post
Wasn't a fan of my gutless 5.4 triton. Of course having highway gears didn't help. New truck is supercab with eight foot bed 4wd. Weighs 6180 empty and has gvw of 8200.
Damn thats a heavy trailer. My 24 foot enclosed is only 7700 gvw.
Enough about tow rigs. Back to the awesome build thread.
Highway gears for sure don't help. Gutless 5.4 - in stock form, agreed.

My 08 MarkLT is a 4 door with short-box and its within 100 lbs of your truck.

The stock tune on the 5.4L 3V, IMO, is an epic fail. Hypertech found a ton of HP and torque simply by tuning for 93 octane premium with a K&N filter. Improved mileage to boot. Also with the tune they are one hell of a lot more fun to drive.

If power were "everything" I'd have a hopped up something or other diesel. A topic for another day...... agreed -- enough on tow vehicles.