$100K Ram TRX drag races Blake Wilkey’s 650hp Race Buggy

It makes 582 to the tire. It's the most extra OEM pickup truck you could ever get. It's a battle of ultimate apex predators. So Ready dan. Yeah, you ready? I'm so ready another episode of this versus that and today We have a good friend competing against one of our own One is a truck that like honestly makes no sense why they built it And the other one is a volkswagen that does wheelies. Why would you build that for a lot of good reasons exactly anyway? 2021 ram trx was it 707 horsepower 707 horsepower and a hundred and twenty thousand dollars. No, no, no Let's start with the appearance, right? We've had this truck for about a day less than a day Look at how nice it looks right now. It showed up perfectly good supposed to be used We took the detour route through baha Cut to the water crossing footage By the way, I just want to say there's a couple really important metrics about this truck one It's got a v8 two. It's got a supercharger three america. It's what a truck's supposed to have stop making six-cylinder truck 6300 pounds 37 inch tires It's got a 27 inch trinitron tv inside and also checked every single box for the hood Let's let's just walk through the hood real quick It's got a scoop a vent a cowl a sticker a blackout and those are lights and it's got lights too It has everything you could possibly put on a hood. It's an overachieving hood. Can we move back to my favorite part the ram bar? I'm, not surprised. That's your favorite part. I don't know who decided to name this but I like it It's a statement. Does this speak to you? This does it sounds like a bar that speaks to you This is the perfect daily driver. It's got over a foot of suspension travel and it comes with 37 stock I mean, it's the most extra oem pickup truck you could ever get it's linked in the rear They did away with coil spring. It's got a four link rear. It's got live active damping shocks 10 speed 100 more horsepower than me. Wow. Look at the seating room. Hold on the seat reclines too. It's a what? Oh, it's it's reclined. Is it reclined? Yeah, it feels great Yo, it's got perforated alcantara and in case you forget your vin number horsepower the amount of boost this truck makes it says it On the center console, which is important horsepower boost and your vin number. No way Yeah So this is actually a big air box that comes in through the hood scoop and then this filters out all the sand and crap And then there's an intake under it that feeds the supercharger That's super smart Just because like a lot of side-by-sides and stuff have been doing that like particle separation and that definitely helps keep a lot of things Alive, so that's that's cool that they're adding that technology into this and it's got a big 10 rib belt And a six rib for the accessories, which means that this thing can handle some juice. What does it have for a suspension? It's got a bilstein live dampening adjustable shocks or damping. All right, you can all adjust it from the there's a baja mode It's got baja mode mud and sand snow towing, but also got launch control We got some two-step in it Well, ironically, this thing is filthy and blake you have a crazy off-road vehicle with tire shine looking all nice Ladies and gentlemen, this episode is brought to you by our friends at hp tuners If you're not familiar with them, they make all sorts of diagnostic scanning tuning tools help It's what I tune my c10 with it's what I tune my tahoe with it's what blake wilkie tunes his bug with anyway Head over to their instagram or click the link below check them out This is like the first time I think i've detailed this car in like probably six months. It looks super clean right now, man We know what this is But for everyone out there who's never seen maybe never seen you or even us or whatever. What is this thing? Well, hold on if you don't know blake just cut to the blake montage We're about to go pop some wheelies on the street you're gonna get it It's sting right here There you go, but what is this this is a 1969 Volkswagen bug on the oh, it looks just like they're a single volkswagen part left on it. Yeah the vin number. That's it What does this thing bill for you race it or is it just like a fun having car? So in off-road, there's many different classes. This is a class fun car Um, i've raced in class one, but it's got a big rockford stereo system in it We go out and do demos and you guys have seen uh All the debauchery we do with like the urban assault tearing up golf courses and all that good stuff So, you know i'm a little disappointed in you for one reason. You didn't bring the boat out here Also, because you could have raced this thing with the magic boat on the back You're both like one of my favorite things you own so cool last time I saw the boat You actually did a wheelie with the boat on the back of this thing. Yeah Didn't you do a wheelie with him? Yeah, it was my first wheelie ever Well, let's look at this thing Let's start in the back because the back really got the interesting and then we'll work our way forward That's where the juice is. This is my favorite part about this thing the holy grail gold supercharger. There you go So what are you working with back here? Uh, this is an ls3. Um, it was kind of mildly built stock crank a crower cam afr heads Magnuson supercharger holly throttle body and it has uh, it's still kind of a budgeted motor It has a stock ecu with a stock reworked harness um All tuned with hp tuners lance dunhuan who does a lot of high-end sand cars and all that out of san diego We tuned this thing two and a half years ago when we put it in and we haven't had to touch it Dang, what power does it make nine pounds of boost to it pump gas? We wanted reliability We want to be able to if we want to go to mexico and not spend a million dollars on race fuel It makes 582 to the tire. So roughly probably six 650 582 to the tire. What are these? 33 33s. Okay. Can we move on to the suspension because this is beautiful. I love this So I made custom little mini fenders that wrap around these king shocks These are king 3.0 race series with a 2.0 coilover We went with a smaller coilover put a little bump in there and these things see all the travel All the time. I really like this mount just how everything's built here. Yeah, the mount is like part of the chassis It's all just blended to kind of uh Looks great Make it look like the whole thing's kind of uh all one piece and kind of buggish with the little radius buggy dork things Dude, what does this thing weigh? It is 32 and some change. I mean i'm gonna get smoke. You got launch control man. What are you worried about? That thing's got launch control Launch control the same amount of power and half the weight I just gotta hope that your alignment is so towed in that it slows you down going down on the top end, dude It gets sketchy this thing might be wiggling around. Yeah, i'm just like Move the course from there to there, you know, we should do an on and off road race, bro So I would say 500 feet because that thing starts losing some steam up top because it weighs 6 000 I would say blake needs a thousand because he's gonna lift the front off a dig and then come down and have to chase you Down, so let's do 500 first race then blake can see how it goes. Let's line this thing up. I want to get smoked Let's race bro I think the trx is gonna have launch control. I think that that thing's just gonna wheelie and Not hook up. I think the trx has it prediction shreddy First race i'm gonna give it to the ram after the second race I'm thinking wilkie's taking it. I don't know where that puts me on the little chart though prediction. Uh first race to 500 feet I'm gonna eat them up and then if we go from a roll or further I think that this thing is gonna just walk the trx. So 50 50 I win one. He wins one. Uh, dude i'm with wilkie I'm with the truck He might have trouble off the line But I think he's got him on the top end coming out of the hole with this thing is not gonna be as forgiving as as that Heavy truck. I might get a little tire spin I might get a little traction to where i'd pop a wheelie Then I have to lift 500 feet from a dig probably go to him but once we start rolling and go a little further, I think this pony's gonna gonna haul ass and catch up and Come up. Wilkie's getting this all day while doing a wheelie easy. You don't get against wilkie Predicted for me Wilkie because he does wheelies Prediction for the race then we'll win All right, here's the deal. We got the megalodon. We got the tyrannosaurus rex. It's a battle of ultimate apex predators Am I right neds? Hell? Yeah Well That thing launches like a drunken bear Look at the line look at that. You can see where he's pedaling and it's all over the place Man you even got I noticed you got in turbo mode got the tailgate down man top end speed. All right I got some wheel spin on that one This thing will pull up top for sure I got some wheel spin on the second gear I grabbed second that thing's Your line right here look at how many direction changes And pedaling and everything is going on here on the right. I think it naturally wanted to pull towards the dirt I think that's what it was trying to do I might just launch and go straight into the dirt for the next one I think we need to go heads up 500 again. All right, let's do it Yeah Yo, it can three-wheel burnout it can wheelie when it wants to yeah, it's a monster That yeah drop the tailgate drop the tailgate There we go Engage turbo mode This thing is squirrely. Yeah, if something goes south today, i'm sorry boys. It's such a handful man I mean you see this thing dancing around. Yeah, it's a party man All right, so we are at one to one this is the tiebreaker we're running it back 500 foot Who took it vinny treat him vinny treat him hard vinny treat him super hard. Yeah That thing gets out the hole. Uh, vinny turned on the hazards. So it's pretty much We pretty much know what happened. Oh, he gave him the old long island I'm gonna argue this he has to make everything a new york thing like turning on the hazards isn't a long island Yeah, that's an international sign of disrespect that you just drug somebody's ass on the highway. Nah, it started in long island Did you hit him with the hazards no the tailgate tailgate down bro, it's always a winner you want to go from a roll Let's go from a roll. Yeah, we can go from a slight fall. I think let's try and roll and see how it does. Yeah All right. I'm into that bonus round. We're gonna go from a roll Boogies from a roll Uh, so hey what I mean that obviously won but that was like a bonus rounds I guess the trx wins trx wins, but you know, we roll race because yeah Yo, you did well this thing rips up top I love the pull sound of that thing This is where the secret sauce is you brought on plastic tires to a drag race