AAKVIPER
Enthusiast
The car has never had an alignment since new..And the past couple of years the RT- 10 felt very vague in the handling department.
I had a hard time finding an alignment shop in central New Jersey that accommodates the low front end of my Viper. I found on RT-9 north bound near Freehold a STS. Jack the manager said that they do alignments on quite a few low front end exotics.
Still, to get the car onto or up the rack was a still a colossal pain in ass. We needed two teches and 2 by 4 wooden boards to able to walk the car up to the ramp and cross the edge part of the Hunter alignment rack.
The rack itself was the newer state of the art Hunter about five years old. We also had to remove the tire stop chucks at the tip of the each rail in order to clear the low front end on the Viper. These chucks were just held on by pins, and popped off easily, because they have done so many low slung cars.
Once the car was safely in position on the rack.
I started the engine had held the break and sat in the car the whole time in order to do the procedure with my real world weight.
My rear alignment seemed very off, but after 30 minutes the tech corrected all the miss-settings I had from Dodge. Apparently the factory did not do a good job with their alignment department. From day one the car felt lose, as if I was fighting to keep the Viper on course.
My rear left as well as my right side's camber and toe were way off the allowed mark. I also had my steering wheel slightly off center, which we corrected when the front was tackled.
We followed the factory alignment specs, and now the car is sorted, it corners crisply, and tracks perfectly straight without any wheel hunting
Email me if anyone needs the shop info..They were very professional..Arthur
The printout of the results
http://sphotos.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/179976_377905245598498_1625214950_n.jpg
I had a hard time finding an alignment shop in central New Jersey that accommodates the low front end of my Viper. I found on RT-9 north bound near Freehold a STS. Jack the manager said that they do alignments on quite a few low front end exotics.
Still, to get the car onto or up the rack was a still a colossal pain in ass. We needed two teches and 2 by 4 wooden boards to able to walk the car up to the ramp and cross the edge part of the Hunter alignment rack.
The rack itself was the newer state of the art Hunter about five years old. We also had to remove the tire stop chucks at the tip of the each rail in order to clear the low front end on the Viper. These chucks were just held on by pins, and popped off easily, because they have done so many low slung cars.
Once the car was safely in position on the rack.
I started the engine had held the break and sat in the car the whole time in order to do the procedure with my real world weight.
My rear alignment seemed very off, but after 30 minutes the tech corrected all the miss-settings I had from Dodge. Apparently the factory did not do a good job with their alignment department. From day one the car felt lose, as if I was fighting to keep the Viper on course.
My rear left as well as my right side's camber and toe were way off the allowed mark. I also had my steering wheel slightly off center, which we corrected when the front was tackled.
We followed the factory alignment specs, and now the car is sorted, it corners crisply, and tracks perfectly straight without any wheel hunting
Email me if anyone needs the shop info..They were very professional..Arthur
The printout of the results
http://sphotos.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/179976_377905245598498_1625214950_n.jpg
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