It is no secret that the ultra-popular Ford F-150 pickup has a formidable rival in the Ram 1500 TRX. Both may traverse all kinds of challenging terrain, but the Blue Oval’s turbo-six with its 450 hp (336 kW) is no match for the Ram’s 702 hp (523 kW). Californian tuner Jimco Racing turns things around completely in its latest custom build, though.
The extreme pre-runner truck has been designed and built specifically for Bobby Patton, a well-known rally aficionado. The team put it on an in-house-designed chassis named Victory, implemented per-wheel suspension suspension and increased the travel to 660 mm (25.8”) at the front and 813 mm (31.75”) at the rear. This is roughly twice the suspension travel of the vanilla F-150 Raptor, in case you were wondering.
Elsewhere, the car landed with 17-inch wheels shod in 40-inch BFGoodrich Baja T/A KR3 rubber and an engine swap. The engine bay now houses the GM Big Block 8 with its monstrous 9.1 liters of displacement, 800 hp (596 kW) and 949 Nm (700 lb-ft) of torque.
Rounding off the impressive project is a completely remade interior with MasterCraft Pro4s bucket seats, leather-trimmed dashboard and Alcantara-wrapped detachable steering wheel. The cabin houses plenty of equipment and options, bringing the total weight of the pickup to three metric tons (~6,600 lbs), but we suspect the latter bit is hardly that important given the abovementioned engine swap.