Progress on Project Viper Exposed Side Pipes

[Jay Herbert]

Here is the progression of the exposed side pipes on my project Viper. They will be similar to the '89 show car side pipes with the only difference I'll be using a more traditional looking side pipe a 3" inlet to a 4" exhaust to a 3" turnout rather than the 4" inlet, 4 " muffler and 4" turnout that was used on the show car.



Modified Show car:

I did modify the above image at the leading edge of the side pipe opening to reflect what Ed will be doing, making the opening follow the curve of the hood.



Here is the mock-up of the side pipes W/O the side sill cover.

Here is the driver's side pipe on the car without the side sill cover:

The plan is to ceramic coat the pipes the same black as the headers. This should make them really "pop" against the pewter metallic the car is getting painted.

 

[snampro]

awww, you had me until the color??? the pipes are going to look great, but that car needs to be RED!!!

 

[Jay Herbert]

awww, you had me until the color??? the pipes are going to look great, but that car needs to be RED!!!

I've owned two red Vipers, both were beautiful and Viper red is a stand out color for sure. I wanted something different on this Viper, a color nobody else has on their Viper.

With this in mind I went to a giant Cobra show, with hundreds of custom painted cars present I saw cars painted every color under the sun, color changing paint, candy apple colors, metallics colors, it was quite a display. The car that really stood out over all of them was a stunning light pewter metallic Cobra with Black stripes, it really was amazing. So much so that I decided those were the colors for my Viper.

If all goes well, there will be ghost snakeskin on the stripe too, like the recent raffle Viper.

 

[snampro]

sounds cool. I've been thinking if I had to repaint my car I'd repaint it the same blue that's on the GTS without stripes...I haven't seen that yet...

either way, that cars going to look so cool and unique...