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This 2026 Ford F-150 Raptor R hasn’t lived stock life for long. The owner asked the dealership to deliver it straight to a tuner in Texas because he wasn’t even interested in what the truck could do in factory configuration. Weeks later, he went home in a 1,000-horsepower monster, but he can kiss his warranty goodbye. However, he will probably find consolation in humiliating Ram 1500 SRT TRXs from stoplight to stoplight.
The brand-new Ford F-150 Raptor R had just 30 miles on the clock the moment it arrived at the shop. When stock, the 5.2-liter Predator V8 with supercharged firepower pushes out 720 horsepower (730 metric horsepower) and 640 pound-feet (868 Newton meters) of torque.
Those are numbers that bring the truck supercar type of performance. It can rocket from 0 to 60 mph (0 to 97 kph) in 3.6 seconds, run down the quarter mile in 12.0 seconds with a trap speed of 112 mph (180 kph) and max out at 114 mph (183 kph).
But scrap all that. Those are not valid anymore! The owner, Jarrod, wanted more horsepower, and more horsepower he got. He ordered it at the dealer and had it delivered straight to the tuner. It had 30 miles on the clock when it arrived. The truck even had a full tank of gas from the dealer when it was unloaded in the yard of the tuner.
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The Ford F-150 Raptor R baselined at 547 horsepower to the wheels when it arrived. Weeks later, his brand-new truck left the Late Model Racecraft shop with 1,000 horsepower at the crank and 797.7 horsepower to the wheel, which is a solid gain of roughly 250 rear-wheel horsepower.
That’s because for some, stock is never enough. Factory setups just don’t cut it. But how did it get to that sort of figures? From the factory, the Ford F-150 Raptor R comes with a 2.65-liter supercharger. The tuner swapped it with a 3.8-liter Whipple supercharger, which allows them to squeeze more power out of the setup.
They overhauled the fuel system and came up with a larger 132-millimeter throttle body, along with a massive S&B Filters upgraded cold-air intake. The truck retained the factory headers, factory manifold, and factory exhaust. The customer asked for more performance and horsepower, but wanted the truck to drive like stock.
And it does until… it doesn’t. In 2WD High, it spins the wheels, leaving black traces of rubber on the pavement and a cloud of smoke in the air, but keeps good road manners no matter how hard you push it. “Nothing too crazy,” says Steven Fereday of Late Model Racecraft.
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The build can go off-roading, do burnouts on the pavement, and win races from stoplight to stoplight. Well, it could do all these when it rolled off the production line of the Dearborn Truck Plant in Dearborn, Michigan, just a short while ago, but with far less power than it has right now.
The 2026 Ford F-150 Raptor R is the most expensive and most powerful production truck that Ford has ever built. LMR hasn’t disclosed the cost of this build, but a brand-new Raptor R is a $114,220 deal, to begin with.
Those numbers make it more expensive and less powerful than its main rival, the Ram 1500 SRT TRX. The 6.2-liter supercharged HEMI V8 pushes it forward with the force of 777 horsepower (788 metric horsepower) and 680 pound-feet (922 Newton meters) of torque.
It’s got what it takes to flash from zero to hero (0 to 60 mph or 0 to 97 kph) in 3.5 seconds in a straight line, run the quarter mile in 12.2 seconds, and top out at 118 mph (190 kph), which makes it the most powerful and quickest production truck with an internal combustion engine out there.
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Ram’s high-performance truck is roughly $14,000 cheaper than the Ford F-150 Raptor R, starting at $99,995. However, with all the mods that this Raptor R received, it would leave the Ram 1500 SRT TRX in a cloud of smoke.
The downside is that Jarrod, the owner, says goodbye to its powertrain warranty, which would have covered it for five years and 60,000 miles. However, Jarrod couldn’t care less. If he did, he could have chosen another way to get the extra oomph that he needed.
Ford offers a factory-backed package, which completely changes the name of the game, by taking the output to over 900 horsepower on pump gas by swapping the standard 2.65-liter supercharger for the 3.0-liter Gen 6 Whipple twin-screw supercharger.
Ford Performance showed the setup at the 2025 SEMA Show in Las Vegas nearly a year ago. The kit is completely CARB-certified and legal in 50 states. It can be installed at the dealer and by no means interferes with the warranty of the truck.
