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  1. PhoenixGTS

    Flats, flats and more flats

    One time I was working on my GTS (I think I was installing coilover shocks) and went out for a test drive after I was done. I heard something hit the belly pan of the car then make some other noises. I knew right away what it was. Sure enough I pulled over and when I walked back found the handle...
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    Finished winter refresh toady: painted calipers/added 6-spoke wheels on GTS (PICS)

    Re: Finished winter refresh toady: painted calipers/added 6-spoke wheels on GTS (PICS I have finally gotten there. Add that with a final bleed and I now have a nice short pedal and some big break torque. The car is really working great right now. The lighter wheels very much make it "feel"...
  3. PhoenixGTS

    11.08 @ 132.7 in the ACR and run against a GT-R

    Your car will be transformed. You will curse SRT for not sending the car out with that gearing in the first place.
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    11.08 @ 132.7 in the ACR and run against a GT-R

    Been trying to figure out how a GT-R with probably 100 less rwhp but 350+ pounds more weight goes faster than the ACR on the drag strip. At first you would say with the lesser trap speed on the Nissan and AWD vs. RWD that it is all in the launch. But them you hear that the 60 foot times where a...
  5. PhoenixGTS

    Gallery of Wheel Photos

    Not sure what the fixation is with Viper guys and big-pimpin'-lip three piece wheels, but this is nice:
  6. PhoenixGTS

    Replaced rear hatch glass seal on my GTS. Very easy project.

    Awesome. Sent you a pm to say hello.
  7. PhoenixGTS

    Good Street tire?

    To flush out my chart from earlier, these have an advertised wear rating of 200.
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    Replaced rear hatch glass seal on my GTS. Very easy project.

    Oh man - owned by my fellow Silver in Phoenix viper owner! :D We will have to get together and hit Pavilions now that the weather is back. We can compare hatch rubber.
  9. PhoenixGTS

    unique paint job

    Can someone please repost the dolphin on the hood just so they are both in the same thread?
  10. PhoenixGTS

    Good Street tire?

    Check out nittotire.com - the site has a graphic rating of each tire so you can compare the traits. For example the Invo is rated as quieter than the NT05 (not a big deal with a full exhaust on a Viper!).
  11. PhoenixGTS

    Good Street tire?

    Kumho V710 = 30 Hoosier R6/A6 = 40 Kumho V700 = 50 Pilot Sport Cup = 80 Toyo R888 = 100 Nitto NT05 = 200 PS2 = 220 Nitto Invo = 260
  12. PhoenixGTS

    Replaced rear hatch glass seal on my GTS. Very easy project.

    WHAT!?! I didn't see a post helping a brother out saying that was the fix!
  13. PhoenixGTS

    Good Street tire?

    Second on all your reasoning, but note that the newer NT05 is stickier than the Invo. Tread pattern is not as "cool" looking and wet performance is listed as worse, but stickier compound.
  14. PhoenixGTS

    Good Street tire?

    I am just now putting miles on my new Nitto NT05 tires and I like them a lot so far. After them being like grease for a few miles due to some sort of sticky mold release compound, and the mounter putting 45 psi in the them, they are now "broken in" and with 30 psi are VERY grippy (200 wear...
  15. PhoenixGTS

    Replaced rear hatch glass seal on my GTS. Very easy project.

    Sent you a pm so as not to bind Chuck to a price. They are a bit spendy, but Chuck was a pleasure to deal with.
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    Replaced rear hatch glass seal on my GTS. Very easy project.

    A while back, I started hearing a noise from the rear of the car when I went over a certain sharpness of bump. It sounded like a ball peen hammer lightly hitting glass in the passenger rear corner of the car. I knew it was the hatch, but after reading some threads about the hydraulic pistons...
  17. PhoenixGTS

    What mods are needed for a Gen 2 to run with a Gen 3

    Sent you a pm
  18. PhoenixGTS

    Latest mods, Inner door sills and Pedal upgrade

    Did pedals on my GTS a few months ago. Plainer than yours but a nice project in that it is not too tough. Note my blue asparagus rubber band to keep the throttle pedal quite when my foot is off it during decceleration.
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    The Ultimate Wheel Thread !

    97snk I sent you a PM.
  20. PhoenixGTS

    Gen 3 or Gen 4 rims on Gen 2

    Some of the Gen II/III rear 19" tires will touch the plastic in the front of the rear wheel well when the suspension is at full droop and if you use a front tire that is any taller than a 275-35-35 the rear edge of the wheel opening in the hood will touch the tire in the half way open position...
  21. PhoenixGTS

    Short ratio gears with 3:54s? Or 3:33s?

    I'm thinking there is some clutch slippage at play there. Before all the good gear calulators disappeared I calculated my 3.55 car with a 0.64:1 6th and Gen II height rear tires as theoretically capable of right at 200 mph at 6,200 rpm (not enough power to really get there) which I believe would...
  22. PhoenixGTS

    Short ratio gears with 3:54s? Or 3:33s?

    Then I would say definitely 3.55 if not 3.73 (perhaps 3.73 if you have a raised rev-limiter). The taller Gen III size rear tires effectively turn a 3.55 in a Gen II into 3.33 gearing, and 3.73 with the tall tires is effectively a 3.55 on a Gen II. I say don't be afraid of short gears unless you...
  23. PhoenixGTS

    Cruising speed small vibration that is not tires: drive-shaft?

    It is so small/low that you could chalk it up to being a Viper/radical car in general, but it coudl still be a problem or coming problem. I have stock engine and transmission mounts to it is not from stiff poly units transmitting the engine vibration.
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    Cruising speed small vibration that is not tires: drive-shaft?

    Exactly the same with two different sets of wheels and tires so I think that eliminates wheel balancing. I would describe it as coming from the rear of the car like it is a drive-shaft of rear end sourced issue. It is no where near severe enough to rattle anything. More of a very slight low...
  25. PhoenixGTS

    Mini/test-drive review of Nitto NT05 tires in Gen III-IV sizes

    Follow-Up: I now over 100 miles on the NT05 Nittos and they have really come around. I have never experienced a tire before that was like driving on grease for the first mile, then slippy for many more miles, then nice and grippy once you scrubbed them fully. We had a few days of total sun which...

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