Did I pay too much for my Viper?

[MadMaxx]

Your fine man. If it's worth the money to you, then it was worth it. I looked at his car too, but it was too far away from me.
It's a beaut' and enjoy it!

MadMaxx

 

[King GTS]

Heck no. Very reasonably priced.

 

[MichaelP]

You got a GOOD deal.

WELCOME brother.

Now start saving your pennies for VOI in September. I would like to see your car.

 

[99 R/T 10]

Dude,
You got a hennessey car, No. 7(lucky number) from the 93 line for 37K?! And your worried about what some guy, probably driving a Ford fiesta, THINKS?! Dude, ya did good. Don't worry be happy.

Mike

 

[RonC]

This brings up a question I have had in the past. Do the tuned cars, i.e. Hennessey etc. suffer from the same head seepage/gasket issues that most genI motors suffer from? Possibly there were different gaskets used?

Ron

 

[slaughterj]

Hey Mullins, good to see you over here. Nope, your deal was a fair one. The lowest those are selling for is ~$32-33k, with about 10k more miles, likely without new tires (think ~$1k there), and without any upgrades (I'm assuming yours are good, and worth ~$2-3k off the top of my head), so the amount you paid was right on (e.g. $32-33k+2k for the miles +1k for the tires +2-3k for the mods = $37-39k).

 

[garolittle]

I think you paid a fair price.

 

[MadMaxx]

Lemme know if you ever want to sell it mullins

MadMaxx

 

[MadMaxx]

It's not just the hennesy, early gen RTs had head gasket problems from factory.

James

 

[Kurt 97 GTS]

MULLINS5

I just sold my 94 RT which had 41,000 miles. Never had a drop of oil leak out!!! Then again, sounds like only a matter of time with the Gen I's however.

 

[Tomer]

Hey madmaxx, do you know if our sweeeeeeeet 96s are prone to the
head gasket failure?

I am still under warranty till end of this year, so if its gonna fail, I would love for it to happen soon. I have 8k miles on my beast, No track time.

Tomer

 

[Kurt 97 GTS]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by tomer:
Hey madmaxx, do you know if our sweeeeeeeet 96s are prone to the
head gasket failure?

I am still under warranty till end of this year, so if its gonna fail, I would love for it to happen soon. I have 8k miles on my beast, No track time.

Tomer

<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

96 RT's still have the Gen I engine I believe!!

 

[Tomer]

Yah, 96 RTs are Gen I engines. I am hoping they made some change to the head gaskets and maybe my year should be OK?

Tomer

 

[Bad_Byte]

I don't think you paid too much.

However, I will strongly advise you to check the rocker arms. I had two bad (ready to go) rocker arms on mine and it only had 11,500 miles.

 

[MichaelP]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by tomer:
Hey madmaxx, do you know if our sweeeeeeeet 96s are prone to the
head gasket failure?

I am still under warranty till end of this year, so if its gonna fail, I would love for it to happen soon. I have 8k miles on my beast, No track time.

Tomer

<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>


OMG really you have only 8K miles on your '96?

If so congrats on will power. I have had my 2000 for 23 days and have almost 3K. I had it 12 days before I put it on the track, and I had NEVER raced before.

I will be putting another 3K on it in the next 10 days driving from Florida up to Canada and back.

You are kidding right?

 

[Bad_Byte]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by MULLINS5:
ROCKER ARMS?

<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Yes, &gt; Rocker Arms &lt; I had two that were extremly worn and if I had not had other reason for pulling the valve covers I would never had found out.

If you would like more info just e-mail me. I'm more than happy to help.