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    Just curious...about people who own Silver Vipers

    I ended up having my entire car taken down to the fiberglass and repainted because of problems with the silver - bubbling, yellowing, etc. Fortunately for me, almost everything I wanted done was done under warranty. The few other Silver Vipers that I've seen have all had inconsistencies in the...
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    Viper vs. Lotus

    I used to own an Esprit and I'd have to give the edge to the Viper, in a straight line. The car handled beautifully in corners, however, which on a road coarse might give a different result. Also, your friend should definitely be careful if pushing the car in a drag race - I managed to kill a...
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    Would YOU BUY this?, and for how much?

    The lack of warranty could actually be a good bargaining point - find out the cost of the warranty, and see if the seller will deduct that from his asking price. $56K with a warranty for a Silver/Blue 98 in good condition is a very fair price.
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    Would YOU BUY this?, and for how much?

    The extended warranty may or may not be a factor in your decision - they don't cover everything that the bumper-to-bumper warranty does so read the contract. As to the asking price, alot depends on the condition and service history. If the car was perfect, with total documentation, etc., then...
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    How safe is Viper Days?

    Thanks for the information everybody. I guess I was most concerned about the safety in the Challenge series, since it is wheel-to-wheel racing and there's no way my insurance would cover me. From the sound of it, ViperDays is not like an SCCA race series, for instance, where you might expect...
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    silver GTS coupe

    If you follow the link in my signature below you'll see a number of shots of my 98 silver/blue. A
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    How safe is Viper Days?

    I'm giving some serious thought to doing Viper Days next year, but I'm concerned about the wheel-to-wheel racing. Although the rules say that body contact is forbidden, can anyone give me an idea of how often a car ends up biting the dust at these events? Is there any way to get insurance on...
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    Need manual info and help from electronic/steero buffs

    After you take out the center console piece, it's pretty easy to loosen up the screws for the center arm rest and rear trim piece. You can feed RCA and CD Changer cables from a new head unit to a new amp and CD changer without even having to completely remove these pieces - the wires tuck in...
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    Help! 99 GTS hood paint flaw

    On my Silver '98 I also had the same problem around my gas lid and around the sills of my driver and passenger door. Dodge fixed it under warranty (along with yellowing side sills). I was told by the paint shop that Dodge made fewer Silver cars then they had planned because they had so many...
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    2003 Viper w/stripes spotted! (XBox screenshot)

    The Business Week article was describing some issues from previews of games in progress for early trade shows and exhibitions of the hardware and software while they were still in development. These sorts of issues are entirely normal - if the game was perfect during the previews then they'd be...
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    2003 Viper w/stripes spotted! (XBox screenshot)

    Mine's getting shipped out the 15th, and Gotham's one of the games that I'll be initially getting. It's neat that they've put in the Viper, and understandable (though frustrating) that they're going with the new body style. As to the boxes crashing, I can almost guarantee that that's not true...
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    A bit more praise for Parts Rack

    I know its a drop in the bucket, but I just wanted to commend JonB and Parts Rack for their excellents service. I ordered up a set of StopTech slotted rotors and steel-braided brake lines from JonB just a few days ago. Jon put his other business on hold, answered my numerous questions about...
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    HELP NEEDED - Patriotic Paint Themes - VCA Board Creativity...

    How about the coiled snake flag reading "don't tread on me"?
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    Anyone interested in some Magnacor wires

    I'd be interested - took a flashlight to my engine bay and saw that my 4 longest wires are cracked in several places. [email protected] 425.894.3415
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    Exhaust heat shield - anyone have one?

    I have the Snake Oyl exhaust with some pretty gigantic exhaust tips, and they've very close to the top of the rear bumper plastic. I'd be interested in mounting a billet heat shield, similar to the one I saw on the back of the Venom 800. Does anyone have one/sell one? Is this just a sheet of...
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    Anyone know what this red bolt is????

    The previous owner installed both the 5 point and an Autoform rollbar. However, because the left shoulder belt was installed on the very left-hand frame bolt, and the door pillar trim piece was not cut, the belt snakes over to the right, then through a large flap cut in the main trim piece...
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    Anyone know what this red bolt is????

    As a quick follow-up question, is it OK to mount both shoulder belts to this one bolt? Currently, I have a 5 point that uses this bolt for the driver's right belt, and another right by the door pillar for the left belt. However, feeding this through the rear trim piece has damaged the piece...
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    VCA Raffle Viper got delivered last night...(pics)

    Pete Wong, VCA member, Viper raffle winner, and luckiest guy I know, picked up his 2002 Graphite ACR RT/10 yesterday night with the Pacific Northwest VCA cheering him on. Delivery was arranged in secret to a nearby karting track by Maltby Motorsports' Cam McCracken, our intrepid Viper Tech and...
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    IS HIGHER COMPRESSION BETTER???

    Thanks for the reply, I understood everything up to the last sentence. If we shave material off of the head of the top of the block, wouldn't we be creating more space, and thus lower compression? I understand that a domed cylinder would take up space in the compression chamber ordinarily...
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    Vipers on the Speedway - thanks all! (photo)

    Kansas Speedway - is that a big oval or a road course? If the former, how fast do you get going? A
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    IS HIGHER COMPRESSION BETTER???

    So, can I expose my ignorance here and ask for a brief tutorial on engine compression as it relates to Vipers? How does adjusting compression get done, and why is it good / bad. What do we mean by lowering compression and adding more air? What does the compression ratio mean? A few...
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    Show me your side splitters

    It looks like these splitters are bent a few times along their length. Is this just a trick of the light, or are they a complex shape? My understanding was that they were essentially a piece of aluminum flat stock. Also, is there a ballpark on what they cost? Finally, do side-splitters...
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    Would like to see some vipers...

    I wouldn't bother with this guys. I posted my car last week, and shot to the top of the charts with almost exclusively 9 and 10 votes. Then, some idiots gave me about 20 "1" votes overnight, and the car sank below some low rider trucks. Let the ricers and Porsche guys have their competition...
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    stripes or not?

    Stripes won't detract from the resale value of your car, and they probably won't add a whole lot either. If you like the look of stripes then have them done. It's important to know, however, that painting the intake scoop is very difficult to get straight. I'd recommend finding a shop that's...
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    UK Viper Question

    So, is the UK Spec Viper a right or left hand drive car? One of these days I'd like to move back to Australia and I can't imagine living without my GTS. I could, however, imaging buying a right-hand drive car and importing that one instead, if such a car exists. A.

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