Track day with SRT Viper team there

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Offline Travis72

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Track day with SRT Viper team there
« on: February 18, 2013 - 12:52:11 AM »
I went to a track day event at Inde Motorsports Ranch in Wilcox, AZ on Saturday.  I've been busting my butt trying to get the Cuda ready, but sadly I couldn't get the hydraulic throw out bearing full bled so I had to give up on taking my car.  I went to the event anyway and my buddy let me drive his Corvette Z06 for 2 of the 20 minute sessions, so it was still a lot of fun.

We were sharing the track with the SRT Viper team who was there doing testing.  They had 3 Vipers there and stacks and stacks of tires to play with (and yes the Bilstein shock truck as well).   The Vipers were surprisingly quiet on the track.  The dark colored car is an engineering car that had a roll bar in it and they said they used that one for high speed testing.  The red Viper was the same one that was in the Jay Leno's garage youtube video.  Since it's a production car they were nice enough to let anyone check it out, sit in it, etc.  One of the drivers is also one of the lead SRT development engineers so he was cool to talk to and hear his opinions on the various SRT cars.  Anyway it was awesome to see them both up close and on the track.









Travis
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Offline grimmey71

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Re: Track day with SRT Viper team there
« Reply #1 on: February 18, 2013 - 01:29:33 AM »
Those cars are beautiful! Bummer about your Cuda though, what did you end up doing about your engine?

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Re: Track day with SRT Viper team there
« Reply #2 on: February 18, 2013 - 07:26:49 AM »
 :drool:  beautiful Vipers!  :2thumbs:
Bummer about your car though!
Brad
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Re: Track day with SRT Viper team there
« Reply #3 on: February 18, 2013 - 11:15:28 AM »
sort of related... but i was watching the newest episode of top gear last night and they had a viper.  i was surprised at the quality of the interior.  it really looks like they stepped up with that on this latest model.  think the viper is a fantastic car and id love to drive one some day

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Re: Track day with SRT Viper team there
« Reply #4 on: February 18, 2013 - 10:27:17 PM »
Keisler hyd clutch ??
too bad ?
 I bet you can guess how bad I wanted to be there too .

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Re: Track day with SRT Viper team there
« Reply #5 on: February 24, 2013 - 02:50:33 PM »
New stroker motor is installed and running.  It's a Kreisler master cylinder with a Ram hydraulic throw out bearing.  I haven't messed with it since last weekend. I did actually drive it but the clutch was like an on off switch.

The new Viper interior is really nice. All leather (even the door panels). No more plastic.

Travis

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Re: Track day with SRT Viper team there
« Reply #6 on: February 25, 2013 - 06:26:23 PM »
New stroker motor is installed and running.  It's a Kreisler master cylinder with a Ram hydraulic throw out bearing.  I haven't messed with it since last weekend. I did actually drive it but the clutch was like an on off switch.

The new Viper interior is really nice. All leather (even the door panels). No more plastic.

Travis

Can't wait to see the video of your beast driving

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Re: Track day with SRT Viper team there
« Reply #7 on: February 25, 2013 - 09:46:25 PM »
WOW Travis how do you like the new motor buddy

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