We love doing things that break the status quo, which is why we Raptor swapped an F-150 Lightning. Now, you might think I'm talking about an engine swap like Ella Swapping a Mazda Miata or Hellcaps Swapping an F-VR-7. But Raptor swap literally means taking the suspension off an F-150 Raptor and putting it on a regular F-150 or in some cases, an expedition. Now, like some crazy science system Jurassic Park, we decided to take the proven suspension off an F-150 Raptor and crossbreed it with the all new F-150 Lightning to bring you guys a world's first Raptor swap F-150 Lightning. All right, before I give you guys all the details on our Raptor swap F-150 Lightning, we need a more appropriate setting, which is why we're headed to Rally Ready right outside of Austin, Texas. Before heading out, we decided to take the Lightning to Selene Performance and load it up on a trailer. Not because of range anxiety, but because we know we will be testing the limits of our Raptor swap Lightning for the first time. So in the event that any parts fail, we will be able to get it back home. All right, guys. So right here, I Rally Ready out in Austin, Texas. You shot out to our friend, Texas Day, for letting us use this awesome facility. Now, I don't know everything about the Raptor swap Ford Lightning, but I got my good friends here with me from Selene Performance Parts and TSW Off Road to help me explain everything that's on this truck. So Alex Whitelaw and Dan Webster from Selene Performance Parts are going to help us break everything down. So Alex, Dan. Hey, so it talks to me about the suspension. It's like the most important part is like the meat potatoes of this truck on this truck, like starting with the front, like what was done to be able to make all this work. So the suspension was a challenging part, right? So nobody has a bug or instructions on doing this to such a new vehicle like the Lightning. There's a lot of changes with getting rid of your traditional differentials, putting electric motors. A lot of the suspension did swap over for your upper and lower control arms, spindles, small parts like that. But we did have to do a lot of homework as far as axle shaft lengths, having custom axles made, shock, travel on bump and full extension, internal bypasses to function properly with the travel on this truck. So the parts used on there were they all aftermarket or they like some of the parts from like a national fork rafter. I would say about half the parts were off of a gen 2 style rafter, your lower control arm, your spindle would be factory fork parts off a gen 2. The cool thing about this suspension that looks really cool too is the Selene Performance upper control arms. They're fully adjustable, one piece billet, they give you a just stability on the top end of this suspension as well as having the thought of manned so you have more alignment to the ability. How do we, because under the four lining is IRS or independent rear suspension, how did you get the rafter parts to work on the rear end of the Lightning? We didn't, we completely customized everything we did here. Okay, so everything is custom on the back end. The rear shocks are the main part of what makes everything work and allows the rear end to keep up with the front end, far as extending our travel numbers. A huge upgrade with dampening as far as going to a 3.0 DSC shock with an external reservoir and custom tuning, spring rakes, etc. So wheel tire combination, I see some method racing, are they actual B-locks or so they are actual B-lock wheels and they're 35s. These are 35s. So running 35s all the way around and the fender flares. Are these off-of-forward rafters? So these are an actual Raptor flare that we modified and shaped to make fit the stroke. Once we got the suspension done, we saw how much poke was on the tires, we realized pretty quickly that we need to have some protection on this. I'm kind of done talking about it actually. So these are all the main points, right? Like that's all the main points. That's all the main points and this is all done in the collaborative effort. Now I think we're ready to drive this thing and see what it can do. Yeah. You guys say, who's driving those goes? Yeah. You're driving. Are you ready for this? Yeah, I'm ready. Alright, cool. Let's go. Alright, here we go. Oh, okay. Okay. Okay. Alright, guys, that's going to wrap up today's video. As you can see, these two here built an extremely crazy truck. They set out to build a truck that would actually perform and they did it. So you guys did an awesome job. You guys put it through the test out here. I'm rally ready. It was awesome. Thanks. I mean, it's fun to take something and give your own touch. I live and breathe, bring runners, trophy truck stuff. That's what we all love. And it takes something mild and make it wild was just an awesome experience. Yeah, I did not expect to get any air on this thing. Yeah, we came out here not thinking we were going to do that. It just, I mean, it's highly capable. You know, we get some electric vehicles. It's, you know, it's just a stock. It's your pro series stock truck and we've showed, you know, how much fun you've had. And I think it's crazy. You brought this up. We're still at 78% still at 78%. We've been, we've been hooting around here, you know, all day almost. And yeah, we're still at 78% doing digs, doing jumps, doing berms running everything through the basis. Yeah. So that's absolutely crazy. I mean, just still have that much battery range and still have the big lift wheels and tires. Still, you know, kind of speaks to the kind of product that it is. So that's pretty awesome. All right, guys, do you want to see some more of this crazy stuff, some more of the LJSV or Leap Sounds and specialty vehicle bills? Make sure to check out this video on our LJSV Ford Maverick that we actually took to SEMA or check out any one of our other Leap Johnson Ford videos. Until next time guys, peace out.