well i finally made some time to work on my Gen2.i have put the big brake kit on it, adjustable suspension, copper head wheels (the really light weight ones)B&B headers etc over the years. car only has 7000 miles on it, not much since i got it from woodhouse 5 years ago!
for the past few weeks i have been slowly working on making a new engine wiring harness. when i started to wire in the AEM and the injector driver i got really frustrated when i saw how ****ty Dodge made the factory harness. so i made my own and just used the stock plugs. i used braided hi-temp 'cloth' loom. its a poly blend but it feels like cotton.
its fun to work with......like trying to put a snake's skin back on. the longer runs are where it takes forever. it gets bigger when you push on it and retracts and tightens when pulled. like a chinese finger.
one thing i found out.
if your viper ever has some wierd random electric malfunction.......
check the wiring harness that leads to the ac compressor. every body, "usually" puts an electrical clamping device on the plug for the compressor or on the ac relay. this is there so that when you turn off the ac it creates a spike from an electromagnetic field, sometimes in the 500 volt range. not good for down stream electronics....
this is where it gets weird with the gen 2 vipers. looking at the service man. it says there is a Zener diode taped into the wiring harness for this reason. but if you look at how its wired, Zener diodes dont work that way. then if you take the harness apart you will find its not a Zener, but in fact a TVS (transsient voltage suppressor) bi-directional diode. rather hard to come by locally, but found some thru Digi-Key online.
case in point. a customer called me a while back and sometimes his car would backfire after he shut it off. it only did it when the ac compressor was engaged....i called him after disecting my wiring harness and finding this TVS diode buried in my harness and it looked burnt. after inspection, his was too and now he has no more problems after replacing this......
ok, enough with the electrical seminar.
my car is coming along. yes i know i have enough money into it that it could have been a twin turbo with more power. dont care, a 1000hp is plenty for me on the street and i like to rebel against the status quo......
i ported the heads, did a full radius valve job on my serdi machine. if i had to do over, i would have sent them to Greg Good......porting a V10 viper head *****....
i had exotic engine machine the short block and forge the internals.
crower billet cam and all roller valve train.
i then built a larger aftercooler with dual pipes leading to the throttle bodys. i had Hogans build the intake and i am maching some covers to go on top of it. i hate using hose clamps so all of the hoses except for 2 main radiator hoses, i have changed out to AN fittings and earls prolite 350 hose (my wiring harness loom looks and feels the same)
i used 2 heat exchangers to go in behind the headlights venting out into the fender wheels. ill post some pics of that later. ill try to update this weekly as it goes.
next project on the list is to pull the front wiring harness off and make a new one for that too. i hate the convoluted tubing and electrical tape the factory uses.
for the past few weeks i have been slowly working on making a new engine wiring harness. when i started to wire in the AEM and the injector driver i got really frustrated when i saw how ****ty Dodge made the factory harness. so i made my own and just used the stock plugs. i used braided hi-temp 'cloth' loom. its a poly blend but it feels like cotton.
its fun to work with......like trying to put a snake's skin back on. the longer runs are where it takes forever. it gets bigger when you push on it and retracts and tightens when pulled. like a chinese finger.
one thing i found out.
if your viper ever has some wierd random electric malfunction.......
check the wiring harness that leads to the ac compressor. every body, "usually" puts an electrical clamping device on the plug for the compressor or on the ac relay. this is there so that when you turn off the ac it creates a spike from an electromagnetic field, sometimes in the 500 volt range. not good for down stream electronics....
this is where it gets weird with the gen 2 vipers. looking at the service man. it says there is a Zener diode taped into the wiring harness for this reason. but if you look at how its wired, Zener diodes dont work that way. then if you take the harness apart you will find its not a Zener, but in fact a TVS (transsient voltage suppressor) bi-directional diode. rather hard to come by locally, but found some thru Digi-Key online.
case in point. a customer called me a while back and sometimes his car would backfire after he shut it off. it only did it when the ac compressor was engaged....i called him after disecting my wiring harness and finding this TVS diode buried in my harness and it looked burnt. after inspection, his was too and now he has no more problems after replacing this......
ok, enough with the electrical seminar.
my car is coming along. yes i know i have enough money into it that it could have been a twin turbo with more power. dont care, a 1000hp is plenty for me on the street and i like to rebel against the status quo......
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i ported the heads, did a full radius valve job on my serdi machine. if i had to do over, i would have sent them to Greg Good......porting a V10 viper head *****....
i had exotic engine machine the short block and forge the internals.
crower billet cam and all roller valve train.
i then built a larger aftercooler with dual pipes leading to the throttle bodys. i had Hogans build the intake and i am maching some covers to go on top of it. i hate using hose clamps so all of the hoses except for 2 main radiator hoses, i have changed out to AN fittings and earls prolite 350 hose (my wiring harness loom looks and feels the same)
i used 2 heat exchangers to go in behind the headlights venting out into the fender wheels. ill post some pics of that later. ill try to update this weekly as it goes.
next project on the list is to pull the front wiring harness off and make a new one for that too. i hate the convoluted tubing and electrical tape the factory uses.
whenever you feel you can part with your cash for them let me know, and i can help you with that! 
hopefully ill scare a Vette owner or two! yeah i plan on doing some track days. thats my goal to get it ready for this spring
