• Manufacturing facility 5’s new XT-1 equipment transforms a 2015–’20 Ford F-150 crew cab 4×4 right into a desert pre-runner.
• Beginning at $24,990, the XT-1 replaces the F-150’s normal ladder body with a full tube body with a long-travel suspension.
• Manufacturing facility 5 says the brand new body is 100 kilos heavier, and it makes the F-150’s fenders 90 inches extensive (the widebody Raptor R has 87-inch hips).

Uninterested in all of the factory-built Baja vehicles on the market just like the Raptors and TRXs and ZR2s? Nicely, you are in luck, as a result of Manufacturing facility 5 Racing simply cooked up a brand new equipment that’ll flip a 2015 to 2020 Ford F-150s into one thing extra akin to a trophy truck than a Raptor. The XT-1 equipment brings new that means to “frame-off restoration,” changing the F-150’s ladder body with a full tube-frame setup, full with new long-travel suspension. All you want is a truck, some can-do mechanical aptitude—and $24,990.

Do It Your self

The XT-1 equipment is the primary Manufacturing facility 5 design to make use of a manufacturing facility inside, and certainly the completed truck appears to be like fully inventory inside. Beneath is a unique story, with Ford’s body changed with a tube-steel monster that Manufacturing facility 5 says weighs 100 kilos greater than the inventory merchandise however is twice as robust. The brand new body pushes the entrance and rear tracks out a lot that an XT-1 is 90 inches extensive on the fenders—3 inches wider than a Raptor R, itself not skinny. That extra width requires a number of new bodywork, together with the hood, entrance finish, and entrance and rear fenders. Physique panels are fiberglass, with carbon fiber a $6999 choice.

The {hardware} behind 16 inches of entrance suspension journey.

The suspension, although, is the XT-1’s purpose for being. The control-arm impartial entrance suspension (with CV joints and four-wheel drive) consists of long-travel Fox remote-reservoir dampers and delivers 16 inches of journey. The rear finish is even wilder, changing the F-150’s leaf-spring design with a four-link coil suspension that stretches for 20 inches of journey. The XT-1 is designed to run 37-inch tires, identical because the Raptor R.

Further-Value Extras

Apart from the carbon physique panels, there are a number of different choices. The $699 tow bundle restores the F-150’s towing functionality with a hitch, panhard bar, and axle-limiting straps. Rear anti-roll bars are $399, however is not comical physique roll a part of the desert-truck expertise? A race cage for the cab can be accessible sooner or later however is not but priced.

As for the donor-truck place to begin, you will need a 2015-2020 F-150 crew cab 4×4 with the 26-gallon gasoline tank (a 2021 or 2022 mannequin can also be appropriate however extra difficult). Both the EcoBoost twin-turbo 3.5-liter V-6 or 5.0-liter V-8 engines will work. Say, did not Ford simply launch a 700-horsepower bolt-on equipment for that 5.0? Escape your bank card, we now have a fantastic concept!

The XT-1 equipment goes on sale in August, so you can begin cleansing out your storage now. Pull in with an F-150 this fall, leap out subsequent spring able to ignore velocity bumps fully.

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Ezra Dyer is a Automobile and Driver senior editor and columnist. He is now based mostly in North Carolina however nonetheless remembers methods to flip proper. He owns a 2009 GEM e4 and as soon as drove 206 mph. These info are mutually unique.