My Viper Build *Pic Heavy*

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


After the long ride home, my daughter helped me get her clean and put a nice coat of wax.



The headlights were oxidized a bit, so I polished them out.


Wife complained about the dull looking interior lights looking dated, so I replaced all the bulbs with LEDs


Windows tinted and in tank fuel system installed


Paxton, High Temp Ceramic Coated



Doug Levin Motorsports upgraded pump and oversized heat exchanger

Compression leakdown test perfect, cylinder walls inspected when oil pan drilled and tapped


Paxton installed

Torque and wheel hop, busted the mounts. Upgraded to Woodhouse

Power steering lines exploded violently at 100mph and 6k rpm. Nearly died. Upgraded to JTSVP power steer and oil lines.


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.



Blacked out the wheels



Stickers for 25 hp

Blow off valve is leaking boost after blowing the O-ring out of it and is being upgraded to Vortech Maxflow Racing BOV.

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?

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.

Very nice.... very very nice!

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

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.

Love the green & black!!!

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

JeffBoyette said:

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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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.

What LED bulbs are required for the instrument lighting?

You took at great looking Viper & made it better. Good luck with the rest of your build. Keep us updated.

It's beautiful! Awesome Viper

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What LED bulbs are required for the instrument lighting?

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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

I installed an AEM Wideband/Boost Failsafe gauge today. Was a bigger job than I thought it was going to be.

Blood sweat and tears=B E A utiful ride. Hells yeah!

Good looking DD.. Can't believe the wife signed off on it! [emoji13] [emoji106]

Three bolts backed out of the supercharger bracket. One hit the fan and took out the radiator.

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.

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!