stock for stock, the truck feels like driving in quicksand compared to the viper
until you have driven one everyday you just can't get to know the car...you see guys the car behaves different in every situation every day. you find guys who have had there cars for vipers for years and wreck them going down the street after putting 50k miles on the odometer. with the ram SRT10 i could hop in any qc or rc and drift it around a corner...once you have that down its something you can do in your sleep...with my viper, the tires may grab or i hit the smallest bump, or the suspension is loaded different than usual and bam the thing is gone.
example a road that I go down everyday, my friend and I are at a stop sign, he jokingly says wanna race (because he is in a 92 camry) and said sure. I left the stop sign under noraml accelaeration (it was fedruaury and 9am) it was about 55* out and the tires were still a little cold. I hit it in first at 2500 rpms...spun (i knew i would) shifted to second and i thought it would spin a little more because i had just done the same thing the day before...nope tires grabbed and shot the rear end to the right...I am know at a 90 degree angle in the road...I check that i didnt shit my pants, and say...dummy, you know you alwyas have to be careful with this thing...always...
the new ones i here are decieving becuase there isnt as much low trq as genIIs, which means winding up the tach by the time your at 4k rpms its to late the thing is moving!!!
