Loosing Control Of Your Viper Stories

[DodgeViper01]

Hello everyone. I just felt like creating a post where people could share stories about looking control of their cars. What happened? Did you make it out ok? Did anyone get into an accident? Please give details. This could be very informative to the ones that have not done this and hopefully we can prevent this from happening, or at least reduce the rate.

Thanks everyone!

KEITH

 

[Chuck 98 RT/10]

Oh Gawd, are you kidding? Where do I begin? I could write a ******* book. :LOL:

Luckily nothing too bad...but all of them could have been.

 

[Craig 201 MPH]

I've had quite a bit of seat time in either my dad's or my uncles Vipers but I drive like there's an egg under the accelerator and I don't push them.

That will all change once my name's on the ownership

 

[Snakester]

I had read many comments here about not mashing the gas in a corner, and rolling onto the throttle as a general rule when you are a new owner. So happily with that advice I haven't ever slid out badly or spun yet in the year that I've owned my Viper.

But twice now I have downshifted to scrub off some speed (from 80-100MPH) to make a right turn, and I had the rear slip out dramatically (when still in a straight line).
Both times it corrected fine, but both times it scared the heck out of me.

I've never had a car get so unsettled when downshifting before, but I don't consider it a shortcoming of the Viper as much as me just learning how the car behaves at speed.

-Dean.

 

[Chuck 98 RT/10]

But twice now I have downshifted to scrub off some speed (from 80-100MPH) to make a right turn, and I had the rear slip out dramatically (when still in a straight line).
Both times it corrected fine, but both times it scared the heck out of me.

Do you heal 'n toe???

 

[BigCarrot]

I got cut off pretty bad by an 18 wheeler and had to go off the median to keep him from hitting me. It pissed me off pretty bad, so I downshifted and went around him. When I got riiiiight to his front bumper, I ****** it over pretty hard..... TOO HARD! The car went almost totally sideways three times before I could correct it! I looked over and saw an entire family plastered to the driver's side windows of a suburban with eyes as big as saucers. My heart was racing, and I was pretty embarrassed, but then I realized that THEY couldn't tell that I'd just defecated in my pants. So I smiled, waved, and hit the gas!

 

[pdmracing]

We were on a huge mountain drive with around 180 cars. They put the 2 lone Vipers with the Ricers. We had a great drive with all the young kids & thir trick cars. A few of us made an excursion to a nearby Gocart track. After a few hours of terrorizing the local teens the owners asked us to do som doughnuts in his parking lot. Well everyone does one & of course when it was my turn I had to show em what I had. Well when I hit that patch of sand & it took off & did 3 or 4 wild revolutions & nearly hit a F350 as well as a few light poles. No one was the wiser & the kids loved it.

 

[motor602]

about two times ive hit it in first, all was fine until i got to about 5000. of course, with the snake you can feel the traction loss so i backed off a bit, but the tires caught and it got sideways on me. luckily i was able to correct both times, and there was no one in the next lane.

 

[Vreracing]

Hit some water with relatively old tires.

Car started to become uncontrollable.

Replaced the tires. Drive extra careful in deep water due to the size of the tires and tendency to hydroplane.

 

[OutThere]

Was showing off coming out of ******* once when the roads were kind of slick and I hit 2nd way to hard. The back came around and I did about a 270. If anyone would have been coming at me in the opposite lane I would have wrecked bad. This was just after I increased the HP to 500 and it really taught me that the extra power will bite you if you don't respect it.

Darn ******* temptresses!

 

[NCVCA]

I've never wrecked my car on or off track but I've been told by my wife that I have lost control of it because it is undergoing a complete SCCA T1 track conversion.

Why is improving handling, traction, performance, and braking a "loss of control"???

 

[LETHAL GTS]

When I first bought my '94 I didn't know what the BITE was.
I learned real quick one evening coming around a cloverleaf.
I was going down a right hand turn when I decided to punch it half way around the corner. Everything was going OK until I hit alittle bump, then all of a sudden the back end wipped out to the left. Now I'm going right sideways at I'd guess about 50-60 MPH. Well all my hillbilly driving experience when I was younger paid off, because I managed to straighten it out once I got to the bottom.
I think I had it for about a week when this happened.
Lucky!
I'll never forget the time I took my dad for a ride a couple years ago and shifting out of second and into third, uhm about 100mph we had it going sideways abit. That was fun because I had been driving the car for 5 years by then and you get use to it, but you should have seen the look on my ol mans face.
That's the last time he rode in my '94 RT. Come to think of it, there is a few people that won't ride with me anymore including my wife .

 

[Vipermed 97.01]

There are two types of Viper owners,THOSE WHO HAVE AND THOSE WHO WILL.

 

[Vipermed 97.01]

http://vca2.viperclub.org/forums/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=UBB14&Number=117892&Forum=All_Forums&Words=4530&Match=Username&Searchpage=8&Limit=25&Old=allposts&Main=117892&Search=true#Post117892 I didnt loose control but it makes for great viper stories

 

[wcollera]

I was at the Country Club one day and we were having a semi-private golf outing with *******. I had Miss November 99 Cara Wakelin in the car with me on our way to an after party. She asked me what the car could do? So I thought she was wondering 0-60 and all that...she said after that no how much of a rush can you give me? So I gave her what was the ride of my life! I proceded to do a burn out from where all the guest were standing as the watched her leave in my car..."I lite them up" and was going about 100 mph at the top of the drive way when I atempted to hot rod the car and spin it around for a kind of encore back to the loby for one last goodbye and I spun the car right into the intersection to miss a Ohio Patrol man by nearly 5 feet. He got out of his Crown vic rapidly and pulled me out of the car. He asked what I was doing and we proceeded to talk about how I was the ****** for a Playmate. As we sat in his cruiser he was writing me about 5 tickets and was telling me how much of a lier I am and she is no playmate. I got back to the car with all my tickets and practially no license. I was pissed and told Cara and she went back to the cruiser adn opened the door and had a little chat with him. Needless to say he now has all 5 tickets and I have no points, warrants, arrest, and etc. God Bless *******!

 

[DodgeViper01]

Dear Wcollera:

That is an amazing story. I can not believe it but hey you know those cops. As soon as they see a Viper it is over. They have to pull you over if you are going at all over the speed limit. At least you had your playmate to help you. LOL!

KEITH

 

[DodgeViper01]

Dear Viper Med:

Wow that is an amazing story. I cannot believe that someone would do such a thing. They should be immediately take off the road. They say out here in NJ about 1 out of 3 do not have insurance. It is a very scary thing. I got hit once (not in the viper fortunately) and the kid just drove off. He did a bit of damage but because he did not have insurance he just drove off. It is a very sad thing. I am glad to hear that you are OK.

KEITH

 

[BigCarrot]

Wcollera wins!!!!! ROTFLMAO!!!!

 

[MichaelP]

Dear Wcollera:

That is an amazing story. I can not believe it but hey you know those cops. As soon as they see a Viper it is over. They have to pull you over if you are going at all over the speed limit. At least you had your playmate to help you. LOL!

KEITH

Righhhhhhhttttttt