Goodbye Porsche hello Viper - Page 4

SeanPizzle · 08-01-2017, 03:22 PM

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Originally Posted by LSA

The referee process is so subjective it really just depends on who your ref is. I think a stricter referee might have told me to pound sand but they have a reasonable amount of wiggle room.

I have a 2005 Jeep Wrangler with a refereed 2005 5.7 Hemi from a half ton Dodge PU in it. The refs know that exhausts in engine swaps are all pretty one-off custom jobs. They are looking for the OEM cats and the same rough distances between the O2 sensors and cats as exist in the OEM application. If you have everything from the donor vehicle documented (ECU, OBD2 port, MIL light, fuel pump, evap system, charcoal cannister) you can get through it.

UconnTim97 · UconnTim97's Garage

That red color is beautiful. Great choice. Enjoy!

Bill Douglas · 08-01-2017, 10:15 PM

Loving it!!!

Good skills not crashing it LOL

I suspect it's the most "crashed on the way home from the dealers" car out there.

drcoastline · 08-02-2017, 02:48 AM

Yep always like the brutality of the Viper. Roof bumps, fat fenders, loud. I just never could warm up to the what looks like stuck on vents right in front of the windshield though.

Burn the bra.

LSA · 08-08-2017, 08:06 AM

Ha coastline, you're not wrong. The louvers in front of the windshield are stuck on. They're not factory pieces and frankly I have no idea where one of the previous owners got them. I've never seen them available by any of the viper aftermarket producers. I prefer them over the recessed grated vents which fun fact, only one is functional. The other is just for symmetry though it can be drilled out to work as a vent. Bra is long since burnt once I painted it, look at the newer shots.

It's definitely one of them Bill. It's easy enough to drive around town, I can go from 1st to 6th and just put around at idle in sixth gear if I wanted it's just when you start to lose it. When you don't respect the throttle it's so hard to save. It really does just bite your head off. Even With 355s rear and 285s front you can break them lose and if you're not careful you'll be ass first into a tree. I've spun it once not a huge full 360 but enough to go "****" let's not do that again.

As for the size, that picture is a little deceptive though it is a surprisingly small car. It's definitely wider than the 996 I think about half a foot but length is almost identical. The 996 cabin inside might as well be a living room compared to the viper. I wouldn't call it cramped but there's not a lot of space inside with that hood taking up half the car.

In other news up to 13.6mpg from 11.2 when I last averaged it lol.