ANATOMY OF A SLEEPER

PEERING INSIDE A DAILY-DRIVEN, 950HP 7.3L

Despite how versatile diesel trucks are, we rarely come across one that can do it all—and when we do, it’s never fitted with a 7.3L Power Stroke. This makes Scott Morris’s ’00 F-350 the rarest of breeds. Producing 100 psi of boost and knocking on the door of 1,000 hp, his dually can run low 11s, outpull the Cummins and Duramax competition, and tow anything he needs it to. On top of that, the truck is his daily driver. “This truck gets used,” he tells us. “A trailer queen is useless to me.”

Bought brand-new at the local Ford dealership, Morris immediately put the truck to work towing a trailer. At the time, he was racing ATVS and competing on the national circuit, so finding a workhorse that could tow, get respectable mileage, and be ultra-reliable were at the top of his priority list. But he soon found out that toting a race trailer wasn’t the only work the truck would be doing. With just 365 miles on the odometer (and a flip chip from TTS Power Systems onboard), it was hooked to the sled for the first time—and Morris was instantly addicted to an entirely different form of motorsport.

ALL THE RIGHT PARTS

Fast-forward 17 years later and Morris is still hooking to the sled, but with more than three times the power. Long gone are the days of rolling the dice on a stock forged-rod bottom end, Morris’s 7.3L incorporates Crower billet-steel connecting rods, fly-cut and coated standard bore pistons, a balanced factory crankshaft with its main caps secured via girdle, and a one-off camshaft from Comp Cams. Up top, a set of factory-based cylinder heads, ported and cut for fire-rings by Crutchfield Machine, are fastened to the block courtesy of ARP head studs.