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  1. Tom and Vipers

    Anyone know whatever happened to Wayne Skiles?

    Thanks, talked to him. He remembered me. We talked about the Silver State and the VOI in Nashville when I ran into him. He's still into the cars. Said it's OK to say, "This was Wayne Skiles' Bad Viper" when I sell 'his' car. (Where I come from, something becomes "yours" only after you sell...
  2. Tom and Vipers

    Anyone know whatever happened to Wayne Skiles?

    I checked my address book and had his shop and home numbers - shop is bad number and home was re-used and not his. The shop number on the internet is the one I had in my book (909) 383-9000 He's on LinkedIn with little activity https://www.linkedin.com/in/wayne-skiles-1497421b/ Now I'm trying...
  3. Tom and Vipers

    IPSCO GTS Tow Hooks: 1) Fishing Rear Nut Plate & 2) Does Front Clear Hennessey Fascia

    Want to install. I think it will clear Hennessey but would be nice to know for sure AND how (???) do you fish the nut plate into the frame? (Does it fit thru that not-so-large round hole on the bottom?) Tried calling IPSCO today, no answer in afternoon, then busy for about an hour at the end...
  4. Tom and Vipers

    Anyone know whatever happened to Wayne Skiles?

    Hey Steve, thanks for replying. Yes, still have it (pic of it in NV mountains is my avatar) - in fact I went thru all his VCA.org posts extracting details about the car - learned Unitrax put the 3.45's in it which I didn't know - what I really would like to know were the VEC1 settings he...
  5. Tom and Vipers

    Anyone know whatever happened to Wayne Skiles?

    PM me if you want.
  6. Tom and Vipers

    O2 simulators hillbilly style........

    UPDATE: DORMAN JUNK and ROCKAUTO RETURN SYSTEM *****: Dorman 42009 defectives from Rock Auto: The threaded axis is not even close to the axis of the part. When you drill it out to 1/2", the O2 sensor end touches the side of the hole since the threads are cockeyed. Screwed a bad one on some...
  7. Tom and Vipers

    Shipping a Viper From CA to NM

    Good to see in person, but if you have a problem on the drive back, better have contingencies in effect. I drove my 90k 96 GTS from Carson City to Death Valley to Pittsburgh sleeping in car. The car made it but it took a month for me to recover (!) I had no contingencies, and after many...
  8. Tom and Vipers

    Slight driveline vibration after trans. swap.

    I had to replace my 96 GTS bushing around 80k miles. But I never experience any vibration.
  9. Tom and Vipers

    DRB III

    Did they all come with the PEP module?
  10. Tom and Vipers

    Advice needed - fix or sell as is?

    Depends on what your time is worth. Do you have a price in mind as is? If you do, put it on eBay and see what happens. You might find someone who wants a Viper who can do their own work, that doesn't have enough money to buy a proper one. It used to be on eBay there was no obligation to sell...
  11. Tom and Vipers

    Thoughts, Tips listing 96 GTS TNT Motorsports 90k on BaT?

    Some years ago, friend in FL who deals in Vipers and exotics and knows the car said BaT would be best place to sell it. However my cursory research was troublesome since you basically have to "audition" for them to list and they may even set reserve. And of course, times may have changed. And...
  12. Tom and Vipers

    96 dipstick indicator

    I have no explanation why others have a weak snap or no snap or have their dipstick blow out. Mine is so right, when snapping to close or open, the amount of force required is so great I wonder if something will break each time I do it. I get into the details in post #14 It might be the...
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    Thoughts, Tips listing 96 GTS TNT Motorsports 90k on BaT?

    It's a 1999 TNT heads, cam, headers, exhaust with other upgrades. Car has 90k on it. Could daily drive just fine as it is. The car is not perfect. It's modded. It's also a work in progress. Wondering how to approach BaT.
  14. Tom and Vipers

    Car Nickname

    RE: NAMES: I had a 1963 Super Red R2 factory supercharged Studebaker Super Lark that was a notorious street racer in the mid-70's. It was known as "The Red Car." The car in my avatar is "Bad Viper" which is the name of the previous owner's ID on the Viper forums. I believe he also had a...
  15. Tom and Vipers

    Guidance on how to sell my Viper

    I bot a new one in 2000 from a dealer and never drove it. I'm guessing if you show up in a Lambo or something crazy expensive, they'd let you drive it - but that was back in 2000. Then I bot a used modded GTS in 2001 and the owner took me for a drive. I don't know if he would have let me...
  16. Tom and Vipers

    96 dipstick indicator

    SCORE: Found a motherlode of NOS 4763791AB sticks from Timothy Kyle Bomar who has "... a shop full of Gen 1 parts." (Boomer's Garage https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61555306735652&mibextid=opq0tG) Great guy, his name has to be out there for parts if it already isn't. How did I...
  17. Tom and Vipers

    GTS Dipstick: need Distance from FULL mark to top of dipstick tube

    UPDATE: I found NOS 4763791AB which is the correct stick for the ...2AB tube. The cup is red. Mine is black. I'll post a pic when I get it.
  18. Tom and Vipers

    High flow cats vs other exhaust input

    FYI - saw this thread: I have a set of OE cats from 96 GTS that were removed when the new exhaust was installed. I bot the car with 60k on it in 2001. It was taken to TNT in 1999 for heads/cam for sure, not sure if they did headers/exhaust. Headers most likely and who wouldn't go for exhaust...
  19. Tom and Vipers

    96 dipstick indicator

    I have to fix mine too. What are my options nowadays? Wow, I had to resurrect this thread - have been dealing with the same issues: (found thread searching for newly discovered 4763792AB!) I have a 96 GTS where they put the upgraded oil pan on. The dipstick has a scribed mark 1-1/4" below the...
  20. Tom and Vipers

    cheap wheels/tire options for storage?

    It peeves me that such tires are DOT approved. Vipers are sold to anyone that has a driver's license which includes people that will treat them like ordinary cars.
  21. Tom and Vipers

    Anyone else have antique plates on their viper?

    What year is your car? My experience was a 96 GTS.
  22. Tom and Vipers

    What did you do to your Viper today?

    I'm not going to sell the car with a "monkeyed" stick. It will have to be proper with OE parts. I'd like to get the correct stick for my tube which is the "...AB" which does not appear in any of the parts manuals. It has the snap feature which I want to keep especially if that is correct...
  23. Tom and Vipers

    Sebring 2024?

    Thanks guys for adding to the "Sebring Experience!" Yeah Baby! Burning couches and toddlers running amok is a pretty good image! (I just want to know how the piles of garbage and junk accumulated) LOL, just thought: burning that couch: that was "cleanup!" Or perhaps Sebring's: BURNING...
  24. Tom and Vipers

    Sebring 2024?

    Ah... Sebring: When I bot my 2000 GTS new, having spent recently the very most by far on a used car ($7k), I drove it with 90 miles from near Pittsburgh to FL starting out in a snow storm. My intent was to stay 2 weeks but it ended up something like 7 (or 9). My pathetically meager plans went...
  25. Tom and Vipers

    What did you do to your Viper today?

    Too cold to work on it. Could make the piece of copper extension strap for the Blue Sea terminal block I intend to install. Then there's trying to decide what to do about the dipstick. I could get on the phone and call everyone and their uncle trying to find the right unobtanium. I'd rather be...

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