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    So when's my next chance to see this beasty?

    Gilles says on After Hours, that the Viper R will race four (4) times this year and then a full schedule next year. I'm taking that to mean the last four (4) races of this year's ALM series. You'll get to see the R on the track and perhaps the road car at the Viper Corals at those events?
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    GTS-R Trans

    The announcement says that the Viper R trans will be moved to the rear and sourced to Xtrac. That is the only Xtrac trans shown that would do the trick for the Viper. If you read the Xtrac material you'll find that it is the trans used on a lot of GT cars including the racing version of the...
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    Variations on a theme

    Many thanks for this post. Viper is based on a BUSINESS CASE this time around!!!!!:2tu::headbang::drive:
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    GTS-R Trans

    http://www.xtrac.com/ select Market & Products select Motorsports Look down page to GT/Sportscar Gearbox At other places on their site, they talk about a near instantious gear change which speculation says requires electronic control of the engine. ;)
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    Variations on a theme

    These thoughts are IMHO but based on what Gilles has said in various places. He states that Chrysler has learned from Ferrari how to build small numbers of a model in a profitable manner. Future models? A convertable has already been promised. Gilles said that it was designed into the...
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    Some time has passed - these are my IMOs

    I'm very glad that you're able to satisfy your needs from the used Viper market. However let me assure you that pulling a mold for a fiber glass body does not require millions or even thousands of dollars. There are many boat shops around that will galdly accomodate your for a lot less...
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    Some time has passed - these are my IMOs

    What if SRT licensed someone to build a continuation series of past Vipers or an update version of past Vipers? That car would be delivered without engine or trans and thereby avoid all the government rules. The buyer could buy a crate engine and trans from SRT, or anyone for that matter, put it...
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    Ferrari Boss Left “Speechless” After Seeing The New SRT Viper

    Here's the chreeleader test: How will a bus load of California cheer leaders respond to seeing a red drop top model, top down, parked along side the road as the bus goes past? ;) Remember the urban legend from long ago about that test result on an earlier generation Viper? On a serious note...
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    Engine Heat Dissipation

    Edmunds Inside Line has a couple of shots of the front end showing the single vents hood in some detail. Someone did some serious aero work on the shape of those for pulling the air out and channeling the air after wards. As for underhood heat, I wonder what impact the rerouting of the...
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    Plastic engine covers look terrible..

    Somewhere in the Chrysler literature or one of the interviews or the news media, I came to understand that the engine covers are for sound deadening. By the way, I don't know if removing them would impact the uderhood air flow, either positive or negative.
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    Nice Interview with Ralph on Gen V

    :headbang::headbang::headbang:
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    Will the 2013 Viper be the Indy Pace car?

    In 1991 Carroll Shelby drove the prototype Viper as a pace car at the Indy 500. Chrysler was going to use a Mitsubishis until the UAW stepped in with LOUD complaints. Shelby: "So I drove it for 30 days, taking everyone for rides around Indianapolis (in the prototype Viper)" (from Carroll...
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    Headlights photoshops

    Put the GTS-R style front end on:headbang:
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    Ferrari Boss Left “Speechless” After Seeing The New SRT Viper

    From Motor Authority "Ferrari Boss Left “Speechless” After Seeing The New SRT Viper Luca Cordero di Montezemolo, the current chairman of Ferrari and one of the key men responsible for turning the Italian sports car manufacturer into a global automotive powerhouse, was left “speechless”...
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    Some time has passed - these are my IMOs

    IMO, not so. The "standard" Viper with the more agressive six (6) vent hood, black interior and Track Package is intended to meet the current Viper demographic. Remember all the government required electronics can be shut off, with the exception of the braking package. For example, if you hold...
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    Some time has passed - these are my IMOs

    Facinating dialog by the engineer. Development money well spent by the Viper engine team. Apparently a much more responsive engine that will offer better durability for bolt on mods. ;)
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    Some time has passed - these are my IMOs

    Not better milage but the introduction of DI. Gilles let the cat out of the bag when he said at the intro that the Viper couldn't have a better power to weight ratio than the Ferrari. So to make the best of that, I thought, trade off the efficiency from DI for gas milage. THEN let the after...
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    Some time has passed - these are my IMOs

    PJ454 - I never asked for an electronic control on the trans. Neither the Vett with its forward mounted trans or the Ford GT with a true trans axel use electronic controls. They both are manual shifting boxes. Nor did I ever say anything about paddle shifting. Gilles is the one who said he...
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    Engine Heat Dissipation

    According to the draft specs, you can get the six (6) vent hood which is standard on the base car as an option on the SRT version. So, both cars can be had with the bigger venting. The actual specs for the aero advantage of one hood over the other have not ben measured yet, accordilg to SRT.
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    Some time has passed - these are my IMOs

    No joke. Let's take it one at a time. According to Gilles, the show cars sits lower than the street car will. Again, according to him, it will not sit as high as the yellow Viper shown on several threads. Further, Gilles says the aero testing is not finished although most of it is centered on...
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    Some time has passed - these are my IMOs

    First, I wish the trans had been moved to the rear. Either by using GMs approach of modifying a four wheel drive trans and mounting it in front of the rear axel or the Ford GT approach of using a true trans axel. Either would help the weight distribution and foot well space. Second, I wish...
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    Production rate

    The Chrysler Electronic Communications video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qg3hCE_2Gac says 12 Vipers per day. If we use 220 work days a year as an approximation we're talking 2640 Vipers per year. ;)
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    Magazine: Gen V intro issue

    Need to print LOTS of those and make them available as single copies. ;)
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    Color Match Front Grill for Gen V

    It appears to me that SRT better open a "custom" paint shop. "Anything goes as long as you got the bucks.":lmao:
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    What differential is in the Gen 5?

    It's a "Frame-mounted hypoid bevel gear with GKN Viscolok speed-sensing limited slip differential, 3.55" according to press release.;)

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