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    The scrapping Viper

    Definitely a Gen I fascia on the car on the left in the picture... My 97 GTS scrapes like crazy, and it is pretty bothersome at first. You get used to it, though, and get used to people cringing while watching/hearing you pull up a steep driveway. On the bright side, this is one of those...
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    Polishing with Pledge

    Hmm - kind of reminds me of an old SNL parody... Hulu - Saturday Night Live: Shimmer Floor Wax
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    Air Compressors

    I personally like Ingersoll-Rand compressors. I have a 60-gallon 5hp unit that does everything I ask of it, and as long as you change the oil on a regular basis and drain the tank every few days of use, it's bullet-proof. It's big, and definitely not portable, though... I would stay away...
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    Thoughts on fixing a crashed Viper?

    I'm with JonB on this one - if you can afford something in the $25k range, buy a Gen I or one of the less desirable Gen II cars and get it with a clean title. I think the Gen III cars still have a way to go before they hit bottom, so buying one of those with a salvage title isn't the best move...
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    Gen II Exhaust With & Without Cats

    In my opinion, if you remove the cats, do it in a way that you can pop them back in if you need to. There are some disadvantages to removing them - will be much louder (may not be a disadvantage), will be STINKY, and you might fail an emissions test. Without the cats, you might pass the sniff...
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    Since the official Gen V debut is near, lets talk Gen 3-4 values

    Don't forget about this post :) http://forums.viperclub.org/general-viper-discussion/635610-anyone-else-think-smells-like-gen-v.html
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    Blue vs clear meth

    How funny. I thought you were talking about that series "Breaking Bad". It's a great show, and the main character (the guy who was the dad on Malcolm in the Middle) is a chemistry professor who ends up cooking up some kind of blue meth that takes the meth market by storm. It's funny to me...
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    My SRT10 Insurance premium renewal

    Keep in mind that insurance rates typically go down slower than the car goes down in value. My rates go down a few percent a year, but the cars drop a LOT more than that... Also keep in mind that if you crash your car once, the insurance company will pay out (or base) the value of a...
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    Unimpressive GTS Auction

    Any way you slice it, the cars are a great deal right now. If I could, I'd buy a Gen I and Gen III just to round out the collection :) Just think back to the 70's when muscle cars were dirt cheap and people beat the crap out of them because the perceived value was so low. Now, even some of...
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    I was the victim of a Viper hate crime

    The guy was an idiot who probably didn't have enough brain cells to tell whether you were driving a Viper or a Yugo... Anyone who swings a flare around is just plain stupid. Those things are dangerous, and I've seen that slag burn people really bad. If he was swinging it around, I'll bet he...
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    loss of power after miss-shift

    That would be a guess of mine, too. If you shock-loaded the engine by mis-shifting from 3rd to 2nd at speed, you may have floated valves and/or bent pushrods (or broken springs and/or rockers). Bent pushrods aren't a big deal as long as the bending didn't happen because the valves impacted the...
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    loss of power after miss-shift

    Over-revving by mis-shifting can cause all kinds of problems, with the valvetrain being the most likely to break. Might have floated a valve and bent the crap out of it, and most likely bent a pushrod or two. Definitely bring it in ASAP and don't drive it. If you haven't seen a check engine...
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    issues removing power steering pulley...

    I wouldn't use a chisel on it - you might screw up the bearings in the pump. Your best bet is to use a dremel to cut it off at this point. For others that are in this situation, the easiest thing to do is to just buy a whole new pump assembly (with the good aluminum pulley already installed) and...
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    Would you trust a VCA vendor to refund your money?

    And girls rubbing their butts together in front of a Viper...
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    New road wrecked paint. What would you do?

    I hear the pain, too... They tar and gravel roads when the road 'almost' needs to be repaved but they don't want (or don't have the budget to) do the job. Tar and pea gravel is a lot cheaper than re-paving, and it will often extend the life of the road by 5-10 years depending on the area...
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    Would you trust a VCA vendor to refund your money?

    Hopefully this gets sorted out. Things like this tend to get blown way out of proportion and complicate everyone's lives way more than they need to. Running a business is a hard job, and being a consumer isn't a piece of cake, either. I applaud Al Gore for inventing the internet that we all...
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    Selling my Viper as Salvage and/or for Parts

    Good - hopefully this helps your case a bit. If they have a history of being negligent, and the dealership that handed your keys over to them knew that, that makes the dealership just as negligent.
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    Driving Shoes (What you wearing?)

    For drives less than a couple of hours, it's barefoot for me. For longer drives, I've got a couple pairs of Piloti shoes that I got at Sportsman's when they had one of those incredible deals and I could also use a coupon. Every time I've tried to drive either Viper with regular shoes, the edge...
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    Still waiting for my 2010 Graphite ACR

    My '09 was born in early June and didn't get to my dealer until late October... Part of the problem back then was that the dealer I bought my car through was no longer a Dodge dealer... So, they had to switch it to another dealer who was in 'good standing'. Then, since the new dealer didn't...
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    Road & Track's 2013 Viper Mockup

    One thing that made the Corvette such a success was that they did a total re-design every once in a while. Just think about the difference between the Gen I, Gen II vettes:
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    Road & Track's 2013 Viper Mockup

    If a Gen V happens, I'd really like to see something totally new and radical. Most of the speculative mock-ups I've seen all look like a refresh of current and/or past designs. It would be extremely cool to have something brand new and ground-breaking just like the original car was. At this...
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    They totaled my Viper today

    If it were me, I'd probably take the $47k, pull the engine and all other non-stock parts, and then leave the rest of the car in the driveway with a pile of stock parts next to it for them to pick up. If they want to have all the stock parts installed, they can pay for that installation just...
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    They totaled my Viper today

    What Bob says is good advise. Another thing I'd suggest is to investigate the options you have in lodging a complaint with your states's insurance authorities. That doesn't cost anything but your time and effort, and I've found it to be fairly effective if you can't get an insurance company to...
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    They totaled my Viper today

    Things like this piss me off to no end. They crashed your car, caused you many hours of inconvenience, most certainly caused you stress and angush, not to mention distracting you from your normal gainful employment (could be very costly in this economy and marketplace...). And they're taking a...
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    Stone Guards on the Wheel Wells

    I have the Parts Rack carbon fiber stone guards on the front of my '09 ACR, and they look like they were meant for the car. In fact, a few weeks ago the car went through a really grueling professional photo shoot (9am to 9pm) where the photographer must have taken several hundred shots at...

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