viper makes butt hurt

k i live in a rural area, where there are a ton of two lane roads with miles of straightaways,yesterday goin to work im crusisin along at about 80, (theres never really any traffic) i see a car on the horizon by the time i catch it my heart is racing (it is a convertible viper, dont know what year, i think it was a new one) hes just goin at about 70(older guy), the speed limit is 65. So I drop it in third and i want to rip past him on the left. i put on my blinker and get in the oncoming lane. i get my nose past him, and he nails it and breaks the tires loose @ 70 mph and takes off like a bat outta hell. i wanna play so i keep my foot in it. i dont know how fast he went but by the time i got to 155 he was a dot on the horizon. (major stiffy) it wasnt a race but it sure was dam cool.

amazing death... i'd love to get squished by a viper. what year / color was it?

Was this on a freeway or a highway?

by year i meant like is it brand spanking new or was it less than 05

I beat a Viper one time....











In a who has better gas milage contest :icon16:

and your car is fast already so imagine how much more another car has to have to pull on you like that!
no replacement for displacement I guess :sly:

vipers are amazing beasts, i rember my run in w/ a viper on the hi-way, at first i wanted to run him but he didnt have any intentions of running be b/c commin im a driving a probe (viper >probe) so he didnt pay me no mind, then i start to cut traffic, and he see and he follows, i guess im intregueing him, so he stay with me along side and decieds to cut along with me, he takest he lead and i would go and try to regain it, the we hit the open road and we line up side by side form 60mph.. we hit it, i was wid him for like 2 sec lol then he put a hurting on me as well, like 4 bus lenghts.. he was gona.. vipers have crazy power and top end.. good death man..

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damn 155mph wit 4:10 gears, thats sexy.

damn 155mph wit 4:10 gears, thats sexy.
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You must be making an impressive amount of power to be hitting 155 mph with those gears. I heard 4.10's fall flat on their face in top speed contests.

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You must be making an impressive amount of power to be hitting 155 mph with those gears. I heard 4.10's fall flat on their face in top speed contests.

I understand that 4.10 will get you out the hole quicker but the car whould lose plenty of top end on LS-1 or Mustang cars.

thats crazy

My brother has a rt/10 with shorter gears, lightened flywheel, and full hennessy exhaust. I couldn't imagine meeting someone on the road faster then that although there certainly are but not very many. Hopefully he'll be on the AF video with his new superch........oops said too much. As much as I've been around vipers I still say the have one of the best exhaust tones of any car save the ferrari.

Yes it's true that higher numerical gearing will move the car off the blocks faster and also cut the top end speed but there is an OD gear in the tranny whether he has a 4 speed Auto or a 5 speed manual, he stated that he "dropped it into 3rd gear" so I'm banking he has a manual, if (and I'm just guessing) that OD ratio is say .70:1 then the overal final gearing would be 2.87:1, the engine may be fairly well tached out but depending on the tire diameter and how high of RPM the engine will spin safely then theoretically yes if he has enough HP to overcome the wind drag he can do 155 with the 4.10 gearing. Now if he has a 6 speed manual then he has 2 OD ratios and I think 6th gear is somewhere like .50:1 which puts the final drive at 2.05:1, with that ratio and again if he has enough HP to move the car against the wind then speeds like 155 and beyond are definitely a possibility.

Nice runs! If it was a convertible then it's the newer SRT-10 Viper, very fast. I have yet to run up against a Viper either at the track or on the street. I should get my chance next month at MATR (Mopars at the Rock in Rockingham NC).

Absolutely awesome! kills like that are so amazingly worthwhile

Ive seen a viper around a few times when I wasn't actually driving so I didnt have a chance to go em...but it would have been ugly and I would have enjoyed every minute of it

Very nice...you did much better than my friend who tried to race a Viper with a 16 second Grand Prix... :biggrin:

$2.23 a gallon + 4.10 gears = a trip to the gas station every other day.....oh and nice death to the REAL snake..........

the viper was a black convertible, i believe it was an rt10 (dont know the production years) but the guy had the top down i cant imagine how hard the wind must of been blowin on his bald head at 160+
vipers are so sweet
o, mines a 6 speed

Full convertible is the SRT-10, '03 and newer. Targa top is the R/T-10 '92-'02. :)

the viper was a black convertible, i believe it was an rt10 (dont know the production years) but the guy had the top down i cant imagine how hard the wind must of been blowin on his bald head at 160+
vipers are so sweet
o, mines a 6 speed

thats why hes bald. If i had a fast car like that i would make myself bald.

They don't recommend that ugly black targa top over 100mph. The hardtop on the rt/10 looks sweet, and it's good for high speeds. My brother only drives it however when he can have his top down so I've never experienced the hardtop at too high of speeds.

Full convertible is the SRT-10, '03 and newer. Targa top is the R/T-10 '92-'02. :)

Perhaps this will help him:

R/T-10 1992-2002:

http://auto.consumerguide.com/images/autoreview/400x266/1992-2002-Dodge-Viper-92103411000302.JPG

SRT-10 2003 and newer:

http://home.quicknet.nl/qn/prive/jj.wijnstok/chrysler%20viper%20srt-10.jpg

I am just curious to see which one it was though I am pretty sure it is the SRT-10 by the way he walked on you. I don't think a stock R/T-10 would have killed you as badly.

it was the second one, i think i meant srt10 by saying rt10, i knew the new vipers were rt10 sumthin

it was the second one, i think i meant srt10 by saying rt10, i knew the new vipers were rt10 sumthin

Yeah, that sounds about right because I just can't see an RT-10 walking away from you like that. Especially since their top speed is around 165 MPH.

Nice death!!!