RE: Dodge Viper GTS: Spotted

[fatboy18]

Boydie88 said:

The dream.

This one has been on sale for a while. Amazes me given how few of that gen there are over here.

Most people seem to hate LHD.

[anonymous-user]

fatboy18 said:

ost people seem to hate LHD.

If it's your only car that you use for mundane stuff then I get that but for a fun car who cares? I've never had a issue.

[fatboy18]

fblm said:

fatboy18 said:

ost people seem to hate LHD.

If it's your only car that you use for mundane stuff then I get that but for a fun car who cares? I've never had a issue.

I've had LHD daily driver for over 4 years in the UK, it does not bother me one bit, but having been on PH a while, I can tell you many PH Fanboys hate the Viper and LHD. Time and again there are always negative comments.

If they look deeper into the car with things like parts and servicing costs they will be in for a pleasant surprise.
Anyone who knows one end of a spanner from the other will be able to service the car and being a lower stressed engine the parts wear will be better.

Now having owned a Viper for a while, I can tell you that torque can get a novice driver into trouble, especially in wet weather.
The Viper has wide rear tyres to get that power onto the road surface, but in wet weather, the rain has a hard time finding its way out from the centre of the tyre, that makes the car sceptical to aquaplaning, so great care is needed.

The gearbox gate is very tight in a Viper, on Gen 1 cars it was even closer! It was also a sprung gate, so it was really easy to go from the top of 3rd gear, pull back the stick and if you did not push it slightly away from you, you would hit 2nd!
This would lock up the rear end and you would be going backwards into the nearest ditch! Gen 1 Vipers also could get out of shape easy if you did not know what you were doing and many got written off. Dodge dialed in more understeer in the Gen 2 cars on..... This gave the driver a get out of jail card

The last Gen V Vipers are the best fit and finish yet, The paint and panel fit is perfect. The ACR has also recently done a 7.01.3 ring record. http://www.roadandtrack.com/motorsports/a12159736/...

One other titbit of information many do not know is that all the engine blocks, from the Gen 1 to the Gen V have all been cast in Jolly ole England, the blocks are then shipped to the USA for assembly. So its also sad for the casting companies involved while they now look for new business.

I love mine

Edited by fatboy18 on Friday 17th November 20:30

[anonymous-user]

fatboy18 said:

...having been on PH a while, I can tell you many PH Fanboys hate the Viper and LHD...

You don't need to sell it to me. My first job was in competitor vehicle evaluation at Chrysler. Taking a GTS mule for an illicit few laps of the CTC perimeter road every now and then was a leap into a world with the best part of 3 times more power than I'd ever experienced. It remains a car I've always wanted but never got round to buying. It looks good on screen or print but nothing really prepares you for the outrageous curves of the real thing. I love them. (except the rt10 - that was a dog)

[fatboy18]

suffolk009 said:

Twenty something years ago I was on the way back from LeMans in a 1600Xflow Caterham. On a stretch of dual carriageway I caught up with one of the early versions (they were very new then). I had to thrash the car to get there. I pulled alongside him, the driver looked out to his left, then did a comedy look down at me, then he floored it. He burbled off into the distance.

I have wanted one ever since.

If it was a Red RT/10 in 2001 it could have been me you spotted

[sonicbloo]

Nothing much for me to say here apart from I love all Vipers, even ones with 'chrome' wheels , I just wanted to put a pic of the Gen 5 against my Gen 3 for comparison, not sure who M J Wallis is, but would like to credit them for the photo

Edited by sonicbloo on Saturday 18th November 10:09

Edited by sonicbloo on Saturday 18th November 10:10

[anonymous-user]

P.Griffin said:

I was thinking more along these lines...

Porsche GT3 125 hp per litre
Ferrari 458 127 hp per litre

I'm not knocking the car itself, horses for courses (pardon the pun) and all that. It just seems to me a very lazy and unsophisticated way of extracting respectable horse power.

Edited by P.Griffin on Wednesday 15th November 14:21

Pumaspeed - 205bhp from 1.0 Ecoboost.

If Pumaspeed made a 7.0 engine .... 1435 BHP !!

[8.4L 154]

sonicbloo said:

Nothing much for me to say here apart from I love all Vipers, even ones with 'chrome' wheels , I just wanted to put a pic of the Gen 5 against my Gen 3 for comparison, not sure who M J Wallis is, but would like to credit them for the photo

Best Add Gen 2 and 4 then. Breaking tradition with the wheels on Gen 4, but i do have a second set of polished 10 spokes which spend most of the time on the car!

[mcholeboy_59]

Last of the old school 'merica sports/gt cars, love it.

rather have the old dinosaur V10 than some high revving V8/V12.

Chrome wheels look ste though lol.

Edited by mcholeboy_59 on Saturday 18th November 15:47

[8.4L 154]

Just to be pedantic, but no viper has left the factory with chrome wheels, A few have been chrome plated by their owners, but all factory wheels have either been painted or polished and clear coated.

Now the McViper was something else.