You Can Now Add 50 Horsepower And 100 Lb-ft To Your Ranger Raptor For $825

Ford Ranger Raptor and Bronco Raptor owners have a new performance modification to lust after and it costs under $1,000. In fact, for just $825, they’ll get substantially more horsepower and torque than their Baja-loving vehicle already does.

The SUV and truck end up with slightly different overall bumps in power and torque but the resulting figures are the same for each. They come in at 455 ponies and 536 lb-ft of torque. Those figures significantly eclipse those of the Hennessey Bronco Velociraptor.

Let’s dig into this upgrade, detail what you’ll get with it, and what you’ll need to do to pick it up. Dollar for dollar it appears to be one of the very best upgrades for the cash. Ford is even holding a special event for Raptor owners to take advantage of it.

We’re all a bit sick of hearing of pay-to-play software upgrades that feel like a paywall more than much else, but this is a bit different. Instead of simply pressing a button to automatically get more power that just wasn’t available to you previously, it’s more like taking one’s vehicle to an aftermarket tuner.

At such shops, the staff will pull your car up onto a dynamometer, drive it up to speed, measure its current power and torque, and then manipulate things like fuel and timing to create more power and torque. There are some significant upsides to doing it this way though.

Aftermarket tuning firms are often experts in extracting power from engines but what they don’t often offer is continued factory warranty coverage. In this case, Ford says the tune will continue to carry a three-year or 36,000-mile warranty.

Bronco Raptor owners will see their maximum output go from 418 horsepower to 455 and their torque climb from 440 lb-ft to 536 lb-ft. The Ranger Raptor reaches those same exact heights but comes from lower starting figures of 405 horsepower and 430 lb-ft of torque. These bumps also come low in the rev range which is a big win in just about every driving situation.

In addition, there is a large benefit in that the new software tune doesn’t require doing the actual live tuning on the vehicle in question on a dynamometer. Again, most tuners are incredibly skillful experts but accidents happen and sometimes engines blow up during the tuning phase.

Knowing that Ford has already done the legwork to confirm these tunes are safe for the engine means not having to worry about potential damage during testing. Finally, the pricing ain’t too shabby either. Having taken several cars to get tuned I’ll admit that I’ve often paid around this same amount with no promise of factory support.

Not only do buyers get the software update but they get Ford Performance’s Procal 4 Calibration tool as part of the kit. That data logging and diagnostic tool retails for $495 by itself and could come in handy in the future for those who know how to work with it. Even if the buyer never adds any other performance software to their Raptor, the logger will enable them to track timing, air-to-fuel ratios, and more.

Interestingly, Ford says that it’ll offer a 20 percent discount to any Raptor owners who are coming to Raptor Rally on September 21 in Fairfield, Utah. That site is home to Ford Performance Racing School and the day will include jumps, rock crawling, and hot laps with professional off-road drivers.

Who wouldn’t want to do that with as much horsepower and torque as they could get? Perhaps the only downside is that it doesn’t appear possible to get the discount and install it right then and there at Raptor Rally. We’ve reached out to confirm that with Ford though. We’ll update this piece if they get back to us.

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