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    Smokey videos

    It looks like Yahoo killed the download location. If someone want to e-mail me the video ([email protected]), then I'll post then on the Pacific Northwest VCA Web Page and post the link. This way we won't have to worry about download or bandwidth restrictions. A
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    Brakes upgrade question

    Getting back to braking, I'm currently running stock rotors, Motuls, and "P" air deflectors. For 3-4 track days per year, is it worth investing in the stop-tech rotors? Also, what is the point of using a turkey baster to replace the fluid on the top of your brake reservoir? Wouldn't the...
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    Do-it-yourself Stongard

    A while back there was a thread around buying a roll of 3M film and doing your own Stongard job. Did anyone actually try this? If so, what was your experience? Was it difficult to cut a pattern, get straight edges, apply it to the car, etc.? I just had my front bumper and hood touched up and...
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    The Vomit Viper Is Back On Ebay

    I wasn't intending to brag that I work for Microsoft; though this is something that I'm proud to be doing - this wasn't really my point. My point is that we should be treating each other with at least a certain level of civility and courtesy, rather than personal insults. I can tell you that...
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    The Vomit Viper Is Back On Ebay

    My bad on the Aston - I think I had you (Remster) confused with another guy from the Lotus club, who also owns a Diablo. I've seen the F50 and the Viper up at Park Place, though, and your Diablo over at Innovative Audio when I had my stereo done. I'm sort of reminded of the line from...
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    The Vomit Viper Is Back On Ebay

    Have to say, I'm disappointed by all of the personal attacks in this thread. I'm also a computer genius - work for Microsoft - so I'll thank you not to make judgements in public about someone you don't even know. Were you perhaps looking for someone who looks like professor Frink from the...
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    Wheel Pics, please?

    Check out my signature below for a bunch of pictures of polished HRE 540's:
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    The Vomit Viper Is Back On Ebay

    No, I am serious - I love the flames on the car. He did pay $150K for the paint job by Lassen, but then Lassen is a pretty collectible artist and I'm sure it seemed a good idea at the time. The owner has a pretty amazing car collection, and gave the Lotus club a tour of his garage back when I...
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    The Vomit Viper Is Back On Ebay

    Well, sorry once again to be the lone dissenting voice, but I've seen the car several times, and the flames are really, really cool when you see them in person. IMHO the dolphins aren't just awful, they're god-awful (in terms of how they blend into the car), but the car as a whole is a platform...
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    Got a bit of justice today

    I imagine that he sold the wheels as soon as he got them, then stalled me for 6 months while I tried to get the money out of them. I expect that whoever bought them thought that he was on the up-and-up - Alex was a very convincing talker. I'm resigned to the fact that the wheels are just gone. A
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    Got a bit of justice today

    About a year ago, I shipped COD my stock wheels to a guy named Alex Astor in North Carolina, who paid with a bad business check and then stopped returning my calls. Thanks to the advice of several people on the board, I finally ended up contacting the NC police, who told me that Alex was in a...
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    USA Viper

    James Prets spent the weekend turning his stock blue/white GTS into a beautiful American-flag car. I've included thumbnails here, the full size pics are available off of the main Pacific Northwest VCA page at www.wavca.org
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    Stars & Stripes Viper (Photo)

    As it happens, I have my Silver/Blue GTS in the shop right now having the front clip and hood stripped and re-painted. Now, hypothetically, instead of stock colors I could have them both painted Viper blue, then have a detail shop do white stars and red/white flames/stripes down the sides. I'm...
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    Rear Brake Caliper Covers

    I actually have EBC Red Stuff pads on my rears, which show through and look pretty cool. A
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    This is what a yellow side sill looks like on a Silver GTS

    I had mine repainted, and they've begun to turn the same tint. I think that this is just a quality of the paint, and probably at least one of the reasons that they won't make any more silver Vipers. You could try insulating your cats to see if this reduces the heat to the sills, though I'm not...
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    Steel and fire and stone

    Nuke 'em 'till they glow, then shoot them in the dark. I think the time is coming for us to recognize that there is good and evil in the world, and to impose some justice and order on a region of the world that desperately needs it.
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    Steel and fire and stone

    As I was reading all of the coverage today about this terrible tradgedy, I realized how the things that seemed so important to us yesterday (Vipers, the weather, gas prices), have been revealed as truly inconsequential. John Derbyshire reminded me of a quote from Rudyard Kipling after the start...
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    an UGLY viper (sorry.. but it is)

    Now, I've actually seen the car, nobody else here has, so hold off on flaming the flames. I've been in one of Lassens galleries and the car is pretty famous - it did actually cost $150K to paint. This from a painter who's <u>prints</u> are going for $2K-$10K. The car seriously looks like it's...
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    an UGLY viper (sorry.. but it is)

    Actually, I've seen the car and the flames are one of the most incredible things I've ever seen. The artist who painted it, Lassen, is fairly famous for painting rainbows-and-moonbeam paintings of whales and dolphins cavorting in the sea. Unfortunately, the dolphins on the hood sort of spoil...
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    Thinking about racing (yes, racing) the Viper - Advice?

    I unfortunately won't be able to make the PIR track day in September - the car will have just gotten out of the paint shop to fix this year's hood and bumper dings and will sit for 2 months, then get stone-guarded. My plan right now is to take the SCCA race course, probably in Las Vegas...
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    Thinking about racing (yes, racing) the Viper - Advice?

    I've been thinking about getting a bit more seriously into racing, and have been looking at the SCCA clubralley groups as a starting place for my rookie year. I'm trying to decide if I should race my GTS (I don't even know if they have a class for this), or get a used race-ready Porsche for...
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    Cat Removal-How & What?

    So, does anyone make a metal exhaust tip shield that can be easily mounted on the back bumper? I have the snake-oyl pipes, which are close enough to the plastic to make we worry about warping. A metal plate of some sort (like Hennessy put on the 800) would hopefully protect against this and...
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    Engine knock on the track

    A quick question about the Oil upgrades - is this something that a reasonably handy person (such as yours truly) could do as a bold on upgrade (at least stage 1 and stage 2), or should I have a Viper Tech do it? A
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    Engine knock on the track

    Jon, Although I can't make it to the next PIR track event, I'd like to see if you'd be available for a few laps so that you can have a listen. Being reasonably new to this sort of thing, I don't really know the difference between a ping and a knock. All I know is that I'd get a...
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    Engine knock on the track

    During my most recent lapping day, I noticed that I was getting some engine knock when I dropped the hammer going into the front straightaway. I was, of course, running Super Unleaded gas, which is 92 octane in Washington. It seems to me that a Viper shouldn't knock under WOT, even on the...

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