scubaloco
Viper Owner
Aloha gang from Hawaii,
I've had my Vipers (04 conv and 06 coupe) for a couple of years now and joined VCA in 09 but have never posted so bear with me
(BTW, you guys rock, reading all the other posts and the responses have helped me tremendously)
Reason for not posting... well, I didn't think that I had anything valuable to add, not having enough experience to put my two cents in. But now, hopefully, this would be for first timers like myself to get good input on upgrading.
I never really thought about it, yeah had thought about upgrading wheels, sounds and lowering but always thought that these things were fast enough.
So a few weeks ago, just cruising around in the 04 and it's feeling funny (CEL has been on because of the skip shift eliminator) low throttle response, smells like its running rich, and lack of power. I drive it home, get it to my mechanic buddy and come to find out there are other codes on the scanner now;
P1196: Slow switching O2 sensor bank two, sensor one during catalyst monitoring
P0175: system too rich
P0500: Vehicle speed sensor
and of course the skip shift
So now the passenger sides first cat is burnt out and plugging up the second one causing my lack of power and running rich. Buddy says its most likely caused by a spark plug wire that shows damage and that cylinder was dumping gas into the cat which caused it to burn up.
My buddy also tells me that the clutch sounds like its making noises and thinks its going to be a bearing, so what to do, what to do...
OK, now I have a reason to post, can you guys help me figure out what I need to do. This is what I was thinking:
Installing test pipes on it instead of getting another cat?
Installing Magnecor KV85 wires
Installing a new clutch, which I have no idea on what brand or stage but have thought about a supercharger later on...
And maybe coilovers and or muffler system.
I wanna be able to street and strip (more street than strip because we no longer have one) So what ya think??
Thanks in advance,
Jerry
I've had my Vipers (04 conv and 06 coupe) for a couple of years now and joined VCA in 09 but have never posted so bear with me
(BTW, you guys rock, reading all the other posts and the responses have helped me tremendously) Reason for not posting... well, I didn't think that I had anything valuable to add, not having enough experience to put my two cents in. But now, hopefully, this would be for first timers like myself to get good input on upgrading.
I never really thought about it, yeah had thought about upgrading wheels, sounds and lowering but always thought that these things were fast enough.
So a few weeks ago, just cruising around in the 04 and it's feeling funny (CEL has been on because of the skip shift eliminator) low throttle response, smells like its running rich, and lack of power. I drive it home, get it to my mechanic buddy and come to find out there are other codes on the scanner now;
P1196: Slow switching O2 sensor bank two, sensor one during catalyst monitoring
P0175: system too rich
P0500: Vehicle speed sensor
and of course the skip shift
So now the passenger sides first cat is burnt out and plugging up the second one causing my lack of power and running rich. Buddy says its most likely caused by a spark plug wire that shows damage and that cylinder was dumping gas into the cat which caused it to burn up.
My buddy also tells me that the clutch sounds like its making noises and thinks its going to be a bearing, so what to do, what to do...
OK, now I have a reason to post, can you guys help me figure out what I need to do. This is what I was thinking:
Installing test pipes on it instead of getting another cat?
Installing Magnecor KV85 wires
Installing a new clutch, which I have no idea on what brand or stage but have thought about a supercharger later on...
And maybe coilovers and or muffler system.
I wanna be able to street and strip (more street than strip because we no longer have one) So what ya think??
Thanks in advance,
Jerry
