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Viper viento build back on!!!!!
bj928 - 31/10/09 at 07:05 PM

Got the old girl back to a usable workshop full of tools, got to get the parts from the storage unit tomorrow, and clean the car, its very dusty, will get some photos of the fuel tank, that was the last thing i had made, and never showed it off, so stay tuned.

here is a pic to remind you what it looked like before mothballing.

omega0684 - 31/10/09 at 07:08 PM

oh owe!

tomgregory2000 - 31/10/09 at 07:08 PM

YEH bout time

DRC INDY 7 - 31/10/09 at 07:08 PM

Glad you are back i thought the project had died hopefully see it on the road some time what is your time span to get it on the road

Richard Quinn - 31/10/09 at 07:09 PM

Nice one! Looking forward to seeing some progress again. Where's that exhaust can from?

bj928 - 31/10/09 at 07:13 PM

hoping to have it on the road summer next year.

Exhausts are custom made by powerspeed.

bj928 - 31/10/09 at 07:16 PM

i guess i better get a job as well to pay for it!!, although i think i have most the parts to finnish.

55ant - 31/10/09 at 07:23 PM

bloody awsome. and hasnt the viper engine been used in that crappy bike thing? so its a v10 bec.

bj928 - 31/10/09 at 07:31 PM

yes it was in the dodge tomahawk motorbike, to which dodge sold 9 i believe, so it could be called a bike engine!!!!!!

madrallysport - 31/10/09 at 07:44 PM

That looks unreal, i wonldn't worry about body panels, just leave the engine on show like that

flibble - 31/10/09 at 08:05 PM

It's not very often that something stuns me quite like that first picture did, awesome!!

franky - 31/10/09 at 08:15 PM

cool.

You need some 2ft wide rear wheels though.

bj928 - 31/10/09 at 08:46 PM

quote:
Originally posted by franky
cool.

You need some 2ft wide rear wheels though.


the wheels are 10j running 295 rubber, so they're getting there!!!!!, can't fit any more under the stock arch, and sitting on the trailer behind my mates discovery it was wider than the disco, but the ace up my sleeve is that i can lock the diff at the flick of a switch, so giving me 590mm of rubber grip R888's

speedyxjs - 31/10/09 at 08:59 PM

Brill, cant wait for the updates

big_wasa - 31/10/09 at 09:18 PM

God I love that engine. My ears are still ringing from Newark. That must be 2yrs ago

bj928 - 31/10/09 at 09:33 PM

must be 2 years, doesn't time fly

l0rd - 31/10/09 at 09:54 PM

quote:
Originally posted by bj928
must be 2 years, doesn't time fly


As i just gave up on mine, Stop posting and get to work. You have a year to complete before i move abroad and i wanna see it running

BenB - 31/10/09 at 11:10 PM

Please don't stop- I so want to see this car finished. It's going to be mental.

On the other hand, if you get fed up with the build I'll take it off your hand for the full £250

bj928 - 4/11/09 at 07:20 PM

decided i didn't like the front roll bar, the one above where the screen goes, so thats been removed, i didn't want it in the first place, but the guy doing the chassis work decided to put it in, so its back to looking like a more normal 7 now. will get some photos soon, got the bonnet today and it doesn't fit, where its been stored its gone flat, this has splade the sides out so now it doesn't fit over engine, its got to be heated and reshaped to fit, that should be fun!!!!