Video: Boosted Rowdy Ranger Runs Deep Into The 8’s

Fierce race cars and trucks don’t always come in big packages — sometimes it’s the little ones you have to watch out for. Stuffing a big engine into a small chassis and strapping on additional power adders is just one of the many ways racers go insanely fast.

Eric Olson has built a boosted mini truck that runs single digits with big cubes and big boost while looking extremely stock on a small tire. This 1993 Ford Ranger is an absolute monster that will fool just about anybody at the race track at 20 yards with its docile appearance. Olson swapped the nitrous powerplant out with 427 cubic inches of boosted blue oval Windsor power. The engine is topped off with a set of Trick Flow heads and a C&S blow-through carburetor that helps the twin 72mm T72 turbos breathe. Getting the power to the ground is a Ford nine-inch rear end on a leaf spring suspension.

With the twin turbos mounted in the rear of the truck it really doesn’t sound that intimidating, until Olson starts spooling the snails up. The video from Victoryredcolorado captures all of the boosted big block Ford noise this truck can make. Running in the Rockford Pro Street Division class, the Rowdy Ranger showed exactly how it earned its nickname, running some low nine-second passes before it ripped off an 8.70 at 163 mph. The Ranger makes running deep into the eight-second zone look easy on each pass while surprising the racer in the other lane each time.