PhoenixGTS
Enthusiast
I bought my first Viper a few weeks ago. You might have seen it on autotrader.com. It is a silver 98 GTS with 19" HRE 543 wheels. The seller is from South Carolina, but has only owned the car since November 2003. Carfax shows that it lived its whole life in Florida prior to that, and my seller says he bought it in Florida. All the mods were on at the time my seller bought the car, and he did not know what brands of parts are on the car. I have been doing my detective work and it looks like it has smooth tubes (installed by my seller), throttle bodies, possibly a cam (very lumpy idle), Edelbrock headers (according to Lou Belanger), no cats, an early Corsa cat-back exhaust, lowered, stock gearing, and an upgraded stereo (Pioneer components). Anyone familiar with the car who might be able to comment for sure about what kind of history it has (some service records provided by my seller indicate the car had a nitrous kit on it at one time)?
The car is stupid loud so first on the list is to have the Belangers redo the exhaust from the headers back (I've known them for a long time and their shops are only about 10 miles away). That and some detailing and the car will be passable. After that, I'm thinking 3.73 gears are high on the list since the stock gearing seems ridiculously tall to me (it is really hard to drive in a parking garage/lot). This is going to be a really fun car (SO different than my current 01 Audi S4)
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The car is stupid loud so first on the list is to have the Belangers redo the exhaust from the headers back (I've known them for a long time and their shops are only about 10 miles away). That and some detailing and the car will be passable. After that, I'm thinking 3.73 gears are high on the list since the stock gearing seems ridiculously tall to me (it is really hard to drive in a parking garage/lot). This is going to be a really fun car (SO different than my current 01 Audi S4)
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