VNMOUS
Viper Owner
I am in the process of having a 3.55 gear put in my viper. After a bit of research it is my opinion that there is a big problem that needs to be addressed by DC. There are numerous threads on the board that discuss unexplained differential faiulures for many causes: broken carrier pin, spiders gears, etc. The guys installing my gear have spent quite a bit of time in discussions with Devin at Unitrax and have told me they do not think it is safe to continue to track my car until this issue is resolved. The temporary fix I am undertaking is to install the hardened carrier pin and to send my spider gears to Unitrax to be hardened as well.
They are telling me that there have been differential failures left and right. If this has happened to you please speak up and post. If there is enough chatter on this site maybe we can get DC to address the issue sooner rather than later. I have a feeling that there will be a lot of 2003 SRT's with their rear ends locking up now that the cars are old enough to have a few miles on them. I have seen two threads were there was a significant event involving the rearend locking up that caused the driver to lose control of the car. One of the indivuduals was hurt I believe and currently is seeking litigation against DC.
I was also informed that the comp coupe rear is not the same and replacing with this would be a fix. If anyone can comment on this please do so. The company that makes the posi unit for the comp coupe is Ricardo (sp?)--this will be something I am going to research. Can you order a comp coupe rear end from Dodge?
Thanks
They are telling me that there have been differential failures left and right. If this has happened to you please speak up and post. If there is enough chatter on this site maybe we can get DC to address the issue sooner rather than later. I have a feeling that there will be a lot of 2003 SRT's with their rear ends locking up now that the cars are old enough to have a few miles on them. I have seen two threads were there was a significant event involving the rearend locking up that caused the driver to lose control of the car. One of the indivuduals was hurt I believe and currently is seeking litigation against DC.
I was also informed that the comp coupe rear is not the same and replacing with this would be a fix. If anyone can comment on this please do so. The company that makes the posi unit for the comp coupe is Ricardo (sp?)--this will be something I am going to research. Can you order a comp coupe rear end from Dodge?
Thanks