Okay, here are some pics how to jack up a lowered Viper with jacks.

[Qualitywires.com]

Since there has been a lot of talk about these cheap low profile jacks, I decided to take some pics and post how I raise my ride up in the air. It takes me about 5 minutes to do this. in the past, it would take me about 20-30 minutes to get the car in the air by driving on boards and then using the stock jack to raise the car up and then use the cheap autozone jack to get it up. It was time consuming and a big pain in the butt to do! No more!!I spent about $300 for the two aluminum jacks.


below are my two trusty jacks. They are awesome!

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As you can see my car sits about 3.5 inches off the ground.

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the jacks stand close to about 4" off the floor. As you can tell, they are still to high to go under my Viper

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My viper sits too low even for these low profile jacks!

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I take one of the jacks and slide it under the rear frame rails. Note, I just jack the car up enough to lift the car about 1-2 inches off the ground..You don't want to completely lift the car off the ground from that part of the rail. It's weak and could have bad effects. I just lift it enough to give me space to put the 2nd jack on the jacking point on the rear side sill.
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DO NOT LIFT THE CAR TOTALLY OFF THE GROUND! JUST ENOUGH TO RAISE IT A TAD BIT.

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Now I have enough room to slide the jack under the rear jacking points

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once the rear of the car is jacked up from the jacking point along the side of the viper, I take the other jack and race over to lift the front up since I now have enough clearance.

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Once I lift the front up, I can now remove the rear jack from the side and put it on the other side of the front jacking point to totally lift the front of the car up with out damage!
Notice the rear is now lifted up off the rear jack.

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to give you an idea, how low the car sits now, you could stick all five fingers between the fender and the wheel in the past. Now I can barely get two fingers in.

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Now for all of you that like to take off your suspension or springs, this tool is a must have. It's a hydraulice spring compressor and it's awesome and safe!

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And for us poor garage owning people that don't have clean floors that you can eat off of, I'm sure every once in a while you see coach roaches or bugs in your garage. This is the best stuff to use to kill them!

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[Daffy Duck Viper]

Very nice pictorial story.

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[Qualitywires.com]

It's time for me to goto bed! I can't sleep and did this cause I was bored!

 

[jimandela]

looks much better lowered how does it handle?
much difference?

 

[Nadine UK GTS]

Hi Adam, nice post and series of pics. That is exactly what I do! I bought the cool USA Ali jack, and use that along side my UK steel one also. I used to do the bits of wood thing before! I also went one step further and dug my garage floor up to set a ramp down into the floor; drive over and lifts the whole car up on all 4 jack points! Still often use the 2 jack method though as it's so handy!

 

[Nadine UK GTS]

BTW Adam, you need to get yourself some stainless steel bolts and large washers to replace those rusty OE ones in the rear of your fascia / bumper underneath! Also do the ones under the front and wheel-arch sides of the front fascia and in the rear wheel arches. Shiney stainless bolts and washers will look great on your silver beast, besides those rusty ones will end up seized in there!

 

[zoomie]

Very creative, Adam. I just drive up on a set of four 2x12s left over from
house construction. Excellent lowering setup and wing.

 

[Gerald]

That was very sweet Adam

 

[REMIX]

Those are awesome jacks.

 

[Qualitywires.com]

Nadine, you are correct. I will have to find some stainless steel bolts. I remember the days of you using bricks to hold your baby up. I tried that and the car fell on me. Since I'm a man of steel, I was able to pick the car off my chest and no harm done. heh!

Ride quality has not changed to me, just have to be careful how I get on drive ways.

 

[Cop Magnet]

Adam, what type of suspension components are you running, exactly? Looks great!

Manoj

 

[ViperJoe]

Ab,
Wth such jack prowess, you might be getting a call to fill in as a jackman on someone's racing team! LOL :-[)

Nice pic of the car all by its lonesome, I put it inot my "screensaver" file!

 

[Matt M PA]

Nice job! But, I am a bit confused. It was my understanding that a Viper could be supported by the frame rails.

 

[Qualitywires.com]

no don't try to support anything on the Viper from the rear frame rails unless you want to bend them. From what I understand the Viper frame is ridged, but soft.

 

[DChan415]

no don't try to support anything on the Viper from the rear frame rails unless you want to bend them. From what I understand the Viper frame is ridged, but soft.

uh oh

 

[onerareviper]

Do you use jack stands as well, or do you rely 100% on the two jacks? Personally, I always use jack stands as well.... Yeah, I'm strong, but even superman can't bench 3400 pounds.... Even a quality jack can slip or fail. Safety first....

P.S. - Look in the service manual for jacking points and jack stand locations.