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    Newbe Trickel Charge Question

    When hooking up to the positive terminal near the relay box, be careful with that nut... When you're torquing on it, you can break it and that is a ticket to a whole new wiring harness. If you can clamp to it, or splice into it without removing the nut, you might save yourself some grief.
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    power steering fluid

    Redline for me too.
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    Bypass the heater core

    Another thing to try is to run a garden hose through it in the reverse direction of the normal flow and see if water flows easily. A bunch of gunk will also probably come out... On my Gen II, the valve broke in the closed position a few years ago and that made me think I had a plugged core...
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    Bypass the heater core

    Why are you looking to bypass the core? It shouldn't hurt anything. I've bypassed plugged up heater cores before just so that I could pour a bottle of CLR in them to break up all the junk that accumulated over the years. Never noticed anything working any different during the process, other...
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    Fuel Injector cleaning mishap

    Don't drive it until you have it completely inspected and all damage documented. Can't overstate that. Once you know there is a problem (you know there is), you have to be 'prudent' in avoiding further damage. If you continue to drive it, and you get into a lawsuit with them, it could be...
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    So what gets more attention--coup or verts?

    My feeling is: maximize fun while minimizing attention gathering... Stay away from the crazy colors, and pay attention to driving - not what other people are staring at. I know, I probably sound old, but I'm sick of the attention (undeserved) that these cars generate. I'm just a regular guy...
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    First Exhaust mod ...

    You won't throw any codes doing that - all the changes happen after the O2 sensors, so there's nothing sensing the changes downstream. In general, you could go high-flow cats and take out the resonators and mufflers and it will sound pretty good if you're looking for a loud and inexpensive...
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    Kenne Bell 2.8H Upgrade

    As long as it's still fun and interesting, no reason to not do stuff on your own. These days, it takes getting my mind right, but once that happens and I get fully engaged in a project, a project like this would be really fun. Messing with all the variables around tuning a modern engine can be...
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    good viper farewell vid

    Good video, but that stupid rub-strip under the chin of the car was driving me crazy... Nothing like a $90k+ car on TV with what looks like a big part of the body flapping around and about to fall off... It was like watching someone talk at the dinner table with a big booger hanging out of...
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    The First Raffle of 2010 is Now OPEN!!

    I have no clue what the taxes would be like in the UK... Here in the States, you're pretty much on the hook for income taxes on the declared value of the car (depending on who you win from, the declared value is typically the retail value of the item, or the wholesale value), plus whatever...
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    ACR paint issue

    Nice color, but nowhere near as great as the classic GTS Blue :) I'm almost thinking about getting Bruce's twin car, but I can't stand the blue interior. Car interiors should only be black, grey, tan or maybe black with red accents, depending on the outside color :) A blue interior is just a...
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    Help with snapped bolt...

    I'm surprised nobody mentioned the following little tip. When you break a bolt while torquing it, you're pulling the threads 'toward' you. When you do that, the upper threads on the bolt 'fuse' to the lower threads on the mount. Best way to get that out is to first tap it with a hammer to break...
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    AZ. Emissions, Help

    My thoughts exactly - if you fail a NOx test, that's a free 'early' cancer diagnosis as far as I'm concerned. I'm not a big fan of the CA smog nazis, but in some cases, failing a test can help you out a lot. A high NOx reading almost always says that you're about to have a bad engine...
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    Kenne Bell 2.8H Upgrade

    Definitely keep at the tuning, and try to keep it from getting into detonation at all cost :) I went through hundreds of hours doing what you're doing, running around town with my laptop plugged into my OBDII port to gather data, and it ended up OK in the end. It is time consuming, and you've...
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    AZ. Emissions, Help

    Whether you have to get it smogged or not, you should figure out what's causing that high NOx reading. As people have pointed out, that's a sign of high combustion temps - which could mean a lean condition on all cylinders, or maybe just one or two. If you have a lean condition, you could burn...
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    ACR paint issue

    I love my Vipers, but it is kind of funny to think about how great the team did to design and engineer these cars, yet the frigging Hyundai I just rented on a business trip had better fit and finish, nicer interior, etc. I don't know if it's because the Viper is a low volume car, or if it's...
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    ACR paint issue

    Mine is definitely on the front fender. I'll bet these flaws aren't in the paint but in the plastic fenders - at least that's what mine looks like. I thought about bitching to the dealer, but I'm afraid they'll massacre it when trying to fix it and I'll be worse off...
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    ACR paint issue

    I've got to admit, my ACR has what sounds like the same paint flaw... It's on the passenger side fender, and there's a one-inch "lip ridge" that is perpendicular to the body line down the top of the fender about a foot in front of the passenger door hinge. It's definitely not a paint flaw...
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    Kenne Bell 2.8H Upgrade

    In fact, just the opposite :) When I built this Jeep, the goal was to improve on-street handling a little bit over stock, and improve off-road handling a ton. So, I installed much bigger swaybars front and rear along with poly bushings everywhere. That really tightened up the on-street...
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    Worth it to keep original tires in storage?

    You're all of the same mindset as me, I suppose. Part of what goes through my mind is the absolute nightmare it was to try to find some 'truly original' parts for cars that I've restored. There are some things that are just plain impossible to find, and I know some people that will go to any...
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    Passenger side window came off track. Took some pics...

    I'm surprised yours lasted this long! Pretty much all the Gen II windows came apart at one time or another. I'm sure someone here knows the right glue. Mine came apart while the car was still under warranty, and they're just now starting to come apart again. It's apparently pretty easy to fix.
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    Worth it to keep original tires in storage?

    Probably a dumb question, but I'm kind of a hoarder when it comes to original car parts. I've still got my original tires for my GTS in the garage in storage, and I'm trying to decide whether it would make sense to just recycle them or keep them. Believe it or not, I swapped them off the car...
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    What's the rarest Viper collectable?

    About twelve years ago, I remember people posting about a single RT/10 that was built with the smoothie hood during the first year that they had the "GTS style" hood on them. Apparently someone at the factory had one of the previous year's hoods, and the car made it all the way out of the...
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    Kenne Bell 2.8H Upgrade

    Definitely leave the easily unscrewable dipstick in - one thing I've learned after working with Kenne Bell type superchargers over the past ten years is they leak... I've never heard of one failing on it's own when properly maintained, but I've heard of a LOT of them failing because the owner...
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    Kenne Bell 2.8H Upgrade

    Did you use any of the other Kenne Bell goodies - like the boost-a-pump, or knock-out system? Also, i couldn't see from the photos, but it didn't look like that design has the extra injectors in the rear inlet. On the 2.4L system I did for my JGC, those three things really made a huge...

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