My Viper Build *Pic Heavy*

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  1. JeffBoyette

    JeffBoyette Full Access Member

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    After selling my 06 Nightrunner in December to a good friend, I used the money to flip a few cars and buy my 05 Viper Roadster from Roanoke in IL
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    After the long ride home, my daughter helped me get her clean and put a nice coat of wax.
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    The headlights were oxidized a bit, so I polished them out.
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    Wife complained about the dull looking interior lights looking dated, so I replaced all the bulbs with LEDs
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    Windows tinted and in tank fuel system installed
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    Paxton, High Temp Ceramic Coated
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    Doug Levin Motorsports upgraded pump and oversized heat exchanger
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    Compression leakdown test perfect, cylinder walls inspected when oil pan drilled and tapped
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    Paxton installed
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    Torque and wheel hop, busted the mounts. Upgraded to Woodhouse
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    Power steering lines exploded violently at 100mph and 6k rpm. Nearly died. Upgraded to JTSVP power steer and oil lines.
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    Exhaust upgraded to a full 3" catless T304 Mandrel bent Tig welded catback, using dual Kooks mufflers and custom double wall 4 inch T304 tips, polished to chrome finish.
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    Blacked out the wheels
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    Stickers for 25 hp
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    Blow off valve is leaking boost after blowing the O-ring out of it and is being upgraded to Vortech Maxflow Racing BOV.
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    You've been busy! I dig every mod except the black wheels. I prefer silver wheels with a silver finish. Have you had it no the strip or dyno?
     
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    Caveman, the silver isnt staying long. Its about to be vinyl wrapped to protect the paint from 250-300 weekly miles from this daily driver...
    More to come on strip and dyno results. I raced before the build and was banned from the track until I put a 6 point bar in it. I will need to find a track rental event to have the rules waved to allow me back.
    As for dyno, I was waiting on full exhaust and wideband install, water/methanol, and upgraded BOV. My boost leak problem will be resolved this week with the BOV, the exhaust was just finished minus headers, now i have a bung and sensor installed in the catless mids, my wideband/boost/failsafe is going in next week and as soon as mamma lets me the meth is going in with a JTSVP throttle body. I planned to have the tune refined on a dyno after i was done with the mods.
     
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    Very nice.... very very nice!
     
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    The Viper looks very nice, as well as the Paxton set up.

    To finalize the black / silver color scheme, i would paint the calipers black with silver Viper decal on them (just my 2 cents)

    You have given it a really nice touch ! Congrats :D
     
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    The vinyl wrap im currently toying with, will possibly be a version of the ACR livery with different color or finishes. Satin/gloss etc. I didnt want to do anything irreversable at the moment and with that in mind, I didnt touch the calipers yet. Truth be told, the roadster/convertible and the color were my last choice for my first Viper. But it was the only good specimen (clean title, 1 owner, documented) within my price range. So I took the bad with the good and am doing my best to customize it in a way that will make it more acceptable for me while being reversible.

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    Love the green & black!!!
     
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    Surely will look sick. To give it a more agressive look, you might could consider a matt silver and gloss black vinyl.

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    I'd have to agree that a silver vert is 100,000x better than no Viper. Wrapping it opens up a ton of cool options anyway.
     
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    What LED bulbs are required for the instrument lighting?
     
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    You took at great looking Viper & made it better. Good luck with the rest of your build. Keep us updated.
     
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    It's beautiful! Awesome Viper
     
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    The parts needed and the colors I chose:
    10 instrument panel general bulbs, white,*T1.5 type
    3 HVAC bulbs, white,*NE05 (5mm)
    1 key ring bulb, red,*NE04 (4mm)
    6 Misc bulbs, white (footwells, the lights in the rear-view mirror, and the license plate at the exterior of the car), white,*194 type, 5 SMD LED
     
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    I installed an AEM Wideband/Boost Failsafe gauge today. Was a bigger job than I thought it was going to be.
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    Blood sweat and tears=B E A utiful ride. Hells yeah!
     
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    Good looking DD.. Can't believe the wife signed off on it! [emoji13] [emoji106]
     
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    Three bolts backed out of the supercharger bracket. One hit the fan and took out the radiator.
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    I couldnt trust anything the shop did to it at that point, so I talked to the shop owner and we settled out of court for a refund of $1,700. I tore it all down and bought a new radiator and power steering pump.
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    The black ceramic on the supercharger looked a little worse for wear so I had a few parts touched up
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    The new blow off valve sounds incredible!
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