Are the Gen 4 pistons really that week? I have a 2001 "cream puff" stock bottom end that has been living at 909 rwhp with striker heads/cam/paxton for 4 yrs.
I cant see doing a heads/cam pkg on a gen 4 being too much power for cast pistons, or is it that the gen 4 pistons don't have the...
I understand what you are saying, my back problems have been making it harder and harder to drive a sick shift around town and getting in and out of my Viper is a bit hard on my back. You have stepped into a very nice car with that S550, I to have been thinking about a S class (S550 or S63)...
Not if they keep the motor 8.4L, make the blower 3.0+L and run lo boost like 6 ish pounds. That will get the current 640 motor to over 800 easy, and not build hardly any heat.
STR just needs to make the motor 10L or FI with 800 hp and call it a day. I love vipers but the new Zo6 is going to destroy the gen 5 viper and do it for 50K less money.
If that dealer was selling your viper they would have it advertised at "super lo miles"
I have gone threw the same crap before, I had a 8 yr old lotus once that a dealer told me was "way too many miles" it had just under 8,000 miles on it, so they would only offer me $10,000 under book trade...
then gave it a ECU nobody can crack.
Here we are 5 yrs later and you still cant tune 08 vipers.
People were tuning the C7 corvette within days of the first ones hitting dealer lots.
I will never buy another new viper till they can be tuned.
700+hp that it should have had in the first place, and a unlocked PCM so we could put 7psi of boost to it and have a 1000+hp car that drives like stock:)
I would not say modding a car makes in "not Reliable", my 900 RWHP Gen 2 has been running for 2 yrs with out any problems. I also have a 2012 CTS-V with 700 rwhp that has been going for 16K miles with no problems. It all depends on if the build it done right in the first place.
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