Win TRC's 1,716-HP Twin-Turbo 2020 Ford F-150 'Work Truck' — or $50,000 Cash

What you're looking at

The joke writes itself and TRC leans into it: this is a 2020 Ford F-150 4WD wearing the plainest possible "work truck" identity, with 1,716 horsepower under the hood. The foundation is an FFRE Stage 3+ short block — a Gen 3 Coyote block sleeved by LA Sleeves, O-ring decked, running a 3.630 bore, 10:1 compression, a factory Boss 302 crank, Manley 300M rods and FFRE-spec Manley pistons on H13 pins. ARP 2000 mains and 12mm head studs hold it together. Up top it keeps the factory Gen 3 Mustang cams with RGR lockouts, Manley Pro Series valves and PAC springs, which tells you this thing was built to make power on boost rather than on camshaft.

That boost comes from a Basye Performance Fabrication kit carrying twin Precision 6466 Next Gen turbochargers into a billet Plazmaman intake, with Turbosmart GenV HyperGate45 wastegates managing the other side. Fuel is a Fore Innovations triple-pump system on FIC 2150 injectors, running ethanol with methanol injection layered on top. Lund Racing did the calibration through HP Tuners with an AMS-2000 handling boost. The published dyno number is 1,716 hp at 35 psi, and TRC says the combination is good for 2,000.

Behind it sits an RSA-built 10R80 branded the "1500R Big Daddy" with a Circle D converter, a Velocity Performance driveshaft, and — the detail that actually makes the number usable — Velocity front and rear lockers. This is a four-wheel-drive truck putting 1,700 hp to the ground through both axles, which is exactly why the claimed slip is 8.4 seconds at 169 mph, with 60-130 in 3.2 seconds. KellTrac-tuned Viking suspension, TBM brakes and Weld Racing 17-inch beadlocks round it out.

Why it matters

Full-size trucks are the last body style anyone expects to see running eights, and that is most of the appeal here. Big-power Coyote builds usually end up in Mustangs, where the chassis is light and the driveline is simple. Dropping the same engineering into a 4WD F-150 means solving traction and driveline shock instead of just chasing a dyno number — and the lockers, the built 10R80 and the beadlocks are the evidence that TRC actually solved it rather than just dyno'd it and parked it.

It is also a genuinely rare thing to win rather than build. The receipts on a sleeved FFRE short block, a Basye twin-6466 kit, an RSA 10R80 and a Fore triple-pump system add up faster than most people realize, and assembling the same combination from scratch would take a year of ordering parts and waiting on a shop.

The fine print worth knowing

Be clear-eyed about what this is. TRC has not published the odometer reading or the cab and bed configuration on the donor 2020 F-150, and both would move the truck's real value. More importantly, a 1,716-hp methanol-injected race truck is not a daily driver — the fuel system alone requires ethanol and meth on hand, the 10R80 is living well past any factory torque rating, and consumables on an 8-second combination are an ongoing expense rather than a one-time cost. Insurance and registration on a build like this are the winner's problem, and the rules award the vehicle "AS IS" with title, license, insurance and registration fees on the winner.

Taxes are the other reality: the truck carries a $75,000 approximate retail value in the official rules, and a federal tax bill on that lands with the winner. TRC does offer an alternative — the winner can take a $50,000 cash award instead of the truck, which is an unusually honest escape hatch for anyone who wants the win without the race-car ownership.

Entry runs through the TRC store, where every dollar spent earns one entry at base rate and the site runs published bonus multipliers of 2x through 25x. There is a real free route: the official rules spell out a mail-in entry on a hand-printed 3x5 card that is worth fifty entries at base rate and up to 1,250 during a 25x bonus period — parity with a $50 purchase, with the same August 12 postmark deadline as paid entries. The full address and instructions are in the free-entry text on this page. Entry closes at 11:59:59 p.m. EST on August 12, 2026, with the drawing on or about August 18. Open to the contiguous US and Canada, 18 or older; void in Alaska and Hawaii. ViralSweep LLC is the named administrator, and TRC publishes a list of nine prior winners by name and city.