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  1. Tom and Vipers

    Front Fascia Alignment and other Issues

    Ok Dean, you got me with your last post. You mean make a shim block.... or replace the rubber isolators with longer plastic ones?
  2. Tom and Vipers

    Front Fascia Alignment and other Issues

    Dean, Do you mean make new isolation bumpers? I cut a whole bunch of shims from the identical material (got lucky finding some). This stuff can be bent with heat so I was going to take the top shim and bend sides down to trap the lower shims. That only leaves securing fore/aft. There is a...
  3. Tom and Vipers

    Front Fascia Alignment and other Issues

    Yeah Dean, my head is about to explode too! FINALLY, I figured out what you were saying regarding bumper vertical adjustment! It turnes out the pair of upper frame, forward facing stud pairs that the bumper adapter bracket attaches to - the studs that have the shim pack to adjust the...
  4. Tom and Vipers

    Front Fascia Alignment and other Issues

    I'm going to revise my understanding of the action of the 90deg bracket and the cross brace: I was just playing around with the effects each of these have and I really have to say that the primary adjustment is a fore/aft of the outboard, top of the RCS (call it Location X). This is achieved...
  5. Tom and Vipers

    Front Fascia Alignment and other Issues

    GTS Dean, Thanks for the detailed instructions. I'm dealing with a warped H'man "rigid" fascia that I actually cracked taking off - it is that hard to get over the RCS wheel well edges. My head is spinning with all the possibilities, but I'm inserting my comments/concerns in your previous...
  6. Tom and Vipers

    Dual Action -v- Orbital -v- Random Orbital: Any Differences:

    Need to buy a body sander and was wondering what the differences are. I know of 2 types of pad motion: 1) I'll call one "translational" where the pad translates in a circular motion about a fixed point. The resulting diameter is maybe 1/4 inch. This action is usually found on square pad...
  7. Tom and Vipers

    Front Fascia Alignment and other Issues

    Am starting to slot the RCS horizontal bolt holes. Came up with clever idea to produce a perfectly vertical slot: hang a 13/64" points and ignition wrench on the bolt. Gravity makes it hang vertically. Scribe both sides and you get a 1/4" wide, vertically, aligned slot.
  8. Tom and Vipers

    Front Fascia Alignment and other Issues

    Hoosier, Are you sure about Nashville? I think I owned it back then. Hemi, Those frame shims below the radiator: There must be some kind of pin or bolt or something under the radiator because I can't slide them out. If I tug on one with pliers, I can see I'm pulling the RCS along with the...
  9. Tom and Vipers

    Front Fascia Alignment and other Issues

    Thanks AviP, I realized what you were talking about as soon as I got the fascia off. Next question: The horizontal bolts that fasten the RCS to the frame: Are the holes fixed or on sliding nut plates? If they are fixed, I can use the bolt head for an approximate reference. If not, I will...
  10. Tom and Vipers

    Front Fascia Alignment and other Issues

    I'm looking at the raising the radiator core support (RCS) and am really mad that the shop manual does not include R&Ring this part. I have found 3 attachment points per side: There is a bracket in the wheelwell that connects the RCS to the frame. 4 bolts, 2 on each leg of the 90 angle...
  11. Tom and Vipers

    Does anyone stock body shims? (headlight, radiator core support)

    I need them quickly, does anyone actually stock them? Thanks Tom
  12. Tom and Vipers

    Front Fascia Alignment and other Issues

    I'm also thinking of setting the back of the hood a little high due to desirable cooling effect of the resulting increased gap along bottom of windshield. Also, pretty much decided to do the Archer (I think) fascia tap w/hood Dzus "latch" to tie down the hood/fascia @ outboard headlight. (Am...
  13. Tom and Vipers

    crack bell housing cause?

    Part of the investigation is to determine where the crack initiated. That will give a clue to the load that caused it. Remember, crack propagation is a function of steady and unsteady stress. Steady stress contributors are: gravity, fastener loads, engine torque and impulse loads. Unsteady...
  14. Tom and Vipers

    Front Fascia Alignment and other Issues

    Thanks AviP, I'll post a pic when I get the fascia off. Today I started taking all the lifting featherfill off the hood. A lot is coming off with a pressure washer. (... prettu Ghetto, I know!)
  15. Tom and Vipers

    Front Fascia Alignment and other Issues

    Hemibeep, The more I think about it, raising the core support will solve a lot of the problems. Are there any issues with the wheel wells when you do this? Avip, Could you please explain further your terms "Bumper Core" and "Bumper side frame (cross brace?)"
  16. Tom and Vipers

    Front Fascia Alignment and other Issues

    Here is the TOP VIEW where you can see the terrible headlight assembly leading edge gap. If I move the inboard end forward enough to make a good gap, I'm not sure I'll be able to correct the beam alighnment. I don't think there is any way to warp the fascia since it is fiberglass...
  17. Tom and Vipers

    Front Fascia Alignment and other Issues

    I have the thankless task of fitting the front fascia and headlights to a fairly distorted carbon fibre hood. I've gotten the hood aligned pretty good to the doors and sills. 1) The fascia has to move up 1/2" (At this point, the hood is already touching the tops of the wheel wells so it is...
  18. Tom and Vipers

    Age of 20 buy a Viper?

    Buy a used one. ...and remember... you will be completely corrupted making subsequent car purchases even more difficult.
  19. Tom and Vipers

    VOI 9 ..... Colorado Springs

    Well, I'll bring up CS again. ROCKIES Pikes Peak ROCKIES Friendliest people you'll find in the USA (including all the cute girls) ROCKIES ROCKIES ROCKIES ...and.... it would literally force me to get the body work on my Viper done!!!!
  20. Tom and Vipers

    WHICH ONE IS FOR THE LOW BEAM HEADLIGHT....9005 OR 9006??

    Here is that URL I was talking about: http://faq.auto.light.tripod.com/hl-filament-bulbs.htm
  21. Tom and Vipers

    How to Install Fiberglass Front Fascia ?????????????

    You know, if people are still making the fascias that must be spread to install them like OEM, they should cast the fascia a little wide so when you actually go to fasten it, it would be perhaps 1/2" wider that it should be. Even 1/4" wider would be a big improvement. It is amazing how easy...
  22. Tom and Vipers

    WHICH ONE IS FOR THE LOW BEAM HEADLIGHT....9005 OR 9006??

    I don't have the URL handy, but the light output of the various 9005 halogens varys by at least 50%. Something like "somebodies" Super Whites are the brightest at something like 1500 lumens (others are as low as 900) and these are between 55-60 watt bults - none of that high power stuff. HIRs...
  23. Tom and Vipers

    How to Install Fiberglass Front Fascia ?????????????

    Just for the record, the DC design of the fascia attachment to the radiator wall is Loodicrusssssssssss.
  24. Tom and Vipers

    How to Install Fiberglass Front Fascia ?????????????

    AviP, We tried putting it on like that and actually produced a small crack on the upper edge by the headlight when trying to spread it over. The "little cracking" sounds you heard spreading it are terrifying! For a race car, I wouldn't think twice, for a beautifully painted street car, I...
  25. Tom and Vipers

    Whatever Happened to [******]?

    HAHAHA.... ****** Formerly Known as *****

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