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I bought it stock in 04,built it, and now a fellow viper friend owns it.
Here's one of the episodes with the car.
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I bought it stock in 04,built it, and now a fellow viper friend owns it.
Here's one of the episodes with the car.
http://kyhorsepower.com/forums/sighting/54338-tt-gen-viper.html
Ah, I see. I wasn't sure from what you posted.
So what are you driving now after getting "bored" with the Viper?
So what are you driving now after getting "bored" with the Viper?
Guy Castro
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Ah, I see. I wasn't sure from what you posted.
So what are you driving now after getting "bored" with the Viper?
I got the car bug over 30yrs ago at age 21. My favorite car was the 66-67 Chevy II's,and I've built quiet a few of them.They would be in the 500-600hp range. 32 Ford Roadster was a fun car I had. Took one of the 80's model Hurst Olds with the lightning rod shifters, and the POS 307 motor,and built a 455 for it, and boy did that wake it up. The viper was the most expensive build. if I had the funds,my next build would be a TT Lambo or TT GTR. They are approaching 2000hp. Once you've been in a car making past the 1000whp mark,you will fall asleep in anything less.
You did hit the nail on the head... My problem is, I get bored easily.
Guy Castro
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I thought about getting "SLOW MF"(3rd plate in the pic above), and I was dared by my viper friends to get it . They said no way it would be allowed. That's all it took,and it was perfect for that car.
Shadera
Wayward Python Wet Nurse
Had a blast this last weekend at the local diesel event. My truck dyno'd at 739 HP and 1214 ftlb torque. Not bad for an old dually. Already got a growing list for the next round of upgrades. I want to keep it straight fuel, and it still has to be able to earn its keep pulling trailers, so I can't go too crazy.
Had a helluva good time doing the sled pulls. Adrenaline rush like I've never had before. Can't wait to do it again, joined a regional circuit.
Already being approached by potential sponsors and have a feature in a diesel magazine being worked on. So proud of my truck and the job we did together.
Had a helluva good time doing the sled pulls. Adrenaline rush like I've never had before. Can't wait to do it again, joined a regional circuit.
Already being approached by potential sponsors and have a feature in a diesel magazine being worked on. So proud of my truck and the job we did together.
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Anyone here knowledgeable about the later model years of Jeep Wranglers? Connie and I have been talking about trading in one of the vettes for one so I'm toying with that idea. The vettes are nice and everything, but we would like to do some traveling where a Wrangler would be a more practical ride to have.
Well, now we're talking!!
Well, I actually ordered a new Jeep Wrangler Sahara at the end of July, but this certainly has been a fiasco. Turns out that they stopped taking new orders for the 2015 model year, but weren't going to start building the 2016s until sometime in September. So I had to just wait it out.
The Jeep was shipped (09/09) several days after it was built (09/04) and as of Thursday (10/01) was still not delivered to the dealer. Status showed it was still tied up in Marquez, TX in a railyard after getting there two weeks ago. That was about 100 miles north of Houston. I'll explain why Houston, in a bit.
Anyway i was getting quite concerned about the delay, so I contacted the dealer. Contacted Jeep. Contacted some people on the Jeep forums who actually worked at the Jeep plant. No one could find out anything, and no one could apparently DO anything. It still needed to get to the Westfield area right out of Houston where it would be unloaded from the railcar onto a truck and taken to the dealer. Other jeep's status that I have been checking were typically seeing 6 to 8 days delay once theirs got to Westfield. So it didn't look like I was going to get that Jeep anytime soon.
FYI, here's the status display of that Jeep ordered for Houston up to yesterday when I canceled the order:
For some background, I ordered the Jeep from a dealer in Houston for two reasons. (1) he was offering the best price I could find, and (2) Connie and I decided that what we were going to do was to rent a car, drive out to Houston to pick up the Jeep, and then continue on for a long talked about trip out west for a few weeks to do some exploring in the mountains and desert areas. Had been planning on this taking place around mid September when the Jeep I ordered SHOULD have been at the dealership ready to be picked up. So here we are now into the first part of October, and no end in sight. I really didn't want to be out there in November, plus Connie made a doctor's appointment on 10/20 thinking we would be back long before then. So many things we wanted to do were being backed up with us thinking "we'll do that after we get back from Texas..."
So a week ago I went back to square one and started looking again to see what was on the dealer's lots. I found only two that were feasible for a PLAN B, and both were up in Warner Robins, Georgia. Both 2015s. One of the two was on the lot, but had the optional leather interior and a few other options I really wasn't crazy about. The seats and the interior were what they are calling "saddle" which is kind of a tan brown color. In some pics it actually looked more orange than brown. Didn't really look good, and I really didn't want leather for that Jeep. Especially when we would be paying a good chunk of change for that optional leather when we are going to pulling that back seat out anyway and leaving it out. The remaining Jeep was still in transit to the dealer, so I thought, "sheesh, here we go again with the shipping stuff." But it was much closer on the options. There were three that I didn't order on my original Jeep, but I figured I could live with them. This one also had the saddle/black interior, but the seats were standard cloth and colored black, with only the lower interior panels inside being that saddle color. This didn't look as bad.
Well, by last Thursday, I had had enough. I contacted the dealer in Warner Robins and that "in transit" Jeep had just hit the lot. He offered me a pretty decent price (about 3+ percent under invoice). In the meantime I contacted the dealer in Houston and told him that today was do or die day. I has asked for some sort of compensation for the headache the delay was causing me, or at the very least a FIRM date when that jeep would be arriving. Did not hear back from him. Nothing had changed in the status display I was looking at. So Thursday evening I told the Warner Robins guy (Josh) that he had a deal.
Friday morning Connie and I got up early, went to the bank to get a cashier's check, then drove on up to Warner Robins.
This is what we came back home with:
BTW, I didn't actually cancel the order with the original Jeep until we had the new Jeep in our possession. I've got far too many scars on me from Murphy's Law to have blind faith that everything was going to be just ducky with that Jeep up in Warner Robins. I cancelled that original order after we got back home with the new Jeep.
It rained nearly the entire time coming home from Georgia, so the reason the concrete is wet around the Jeep is because I had to hose off the mud on the tires and lower part of the Jeep that we got driving home on our own road. Connie was following in her truck, as she wanted me to do the honors of driving the new vehicle. But at least I know the Jeep doesn't leak, and the windshield wipers certainly work well.
Anyway, as for this one being a 2015 instead of a 2016, I don't think that really makes much difference. For one thing, Jeep started building the 2016s on 09/01/2015. The build date on the tag for the 2015 we got says it was built in 09/2015. It was delivered from the factory to the dealer on 09/30, and had 12 miles on the odometer when we got to the dealer and looked at it. So it's quite possible that this might have been the LAST 2015 built.
As for the optionals, I'm rather glad to not be getting the optional 7 spoke wheels I originally ordered. I'm probably going to want to put wider tires on it eventually, and quite likely I will need to buy wider tires to do that. And the wider tires would mean I would need a better offset to the wheels or else use wheel spacers to keep the stock wheels. So I would have felt dumb about throwing away the $600 I paid for the optional wheels, which are the same size and offset of the stock wheels. The other optionals that I didn't order for the original Jeep were the radio/navigation system, automatic temp control for the AC, and a connectivity group. Honestly, I can live with all three, and push come to shove, probably things I should have ordered anyway. As Connie said, she thinks this one is actually better than what I had originally ordered. She likes the interior, and says that the stock wheels and tires actually look a LOT better in person than they did in pictures.
So maybe this all worked out for the best. Well, except for not taking the trip out west. But I guess that can be some other time. And thankfully, today was the first day in weeks that I didn't have to take an excedrin for the darn headache this gave me every day.
The Jeep was shipped (09/09) several days after it was built (09/04) and as of Thursday (10/01) was still not delivered to the dealer. Status showed it was still tied up in Marquez, TX in a railyard after getting there two weeks ago. That was about 100 miles north of Houston. I'll explain why Houston, in a bit.
Anyway i was getting quite concerned about the delay, so I contacted the dealer. Contacted Jeep. Contacted some people on the Jeep forums who actually worked at the Jeep plant. No one could find out anything, and no one could apparently DO anything. It still needed to get to the Westfield area right out of Houston where it would be unloaded from the railcar onto a truck and taken to the dealer. Other jeep's status that I have been checking were typically seeing 6 to 8 days delay once theirs got to Westfield. So it didn't look like I was going to get that Jeep anytime soon.
FYI, here's the status display of that Jeep ordered for Houston up to yesterday when I canceled the order:
For some background, I ordered the Jeep from a dealer in Houston for two reasons. (1) he was offering the best price I could find, and (2) Connie and I decided that what we were going to do was to rent a car, drive out to Houston to pick up the Jeep, and then continue on for a long talked about trip out west for a few weeks to do some exploring in the mountains and desert areas. Had been planning on this taking place around mid September when the Jeep I ordered SHOULD have been at the dealership ready to be picked up. So here we are now into the first part of October, and no end in sight. I really didn't want to be out there in November, plus Connie made a doctor's appointment on 10/20 thinking we would be back long before then. So many things we wanted to do were being backed up with us thinking "we'll do that after we get back from Texas..."
So a week ago I went back to square one and started looking again to see what was on the dealer's lots. I found only two that were feasible for a PLAN B, and both were up in Warner Robins, Georgia. Both 2015s. One of the two was on the lot, but had the optional leather interior and a few other options I really wasn't crazy about. The seats and the interior were what they are calling "saddle" which is kind of a tan brown color. In some pics it actually looked more orange than brown. Didn't really look good, and I really didn't want leather for that Jeep. Especially when we would be paying a good chunk of change for that optional leather when we are going to pulling that back seat out anyway and leaving it out. The remaining Jeep was still in transit to the dealer, so I thought, "sheesh, here we go again with the shipping stuff." But it was much closer on the options. There were three that I didn't order on my original Jeep, but I figured I could live with them. This one also had the saddle/black interior, but the seats were standard cloth and colored black, with only the lower interior panels inside being that saddle color. This didn't look as bad.
Well, by last Thursday, I had had enough. I contacted the dealer in Warner Robins and that "in transit" Jeep had just hit the lot. He offered me a pretty decent price (about 3+ percent under invoice). In the meantime I contacted the dealer in Houston and told him that today was do or die day. I has asked for some sort of compensation for the headache the delay was causing me, or at the very least a FIRM date when that jeep would be arriving. Did not hear back from him. Nothing had changed in the status display I was looking at. So Thursday evening I told the Warner Robins guy (Josh) that he had a deal.
Friday morning Connie and I got up early, went to the bank to get a cashier's check, then drove on up to Warner Robins.
This is what we came back home with:
BTW, I didn't actually cancel the order with the original Jeep until we had the new Jeep in our possession. I've got far too many scars on me from Murphy's Law to have blind faith that everything was going to be just ducky with that Jeep up in Warner Robins. I cancelled that original order after we got back home with the new Jeep.
It rained nearly the entire time coming home from Georgia, so the reason the concrete is wet around the Jeep is because I had to hose off the mud on the tires and lower part of the Jeep that we got driving home on our own road. Connie was following in her truck, as she wanted me to do the honors of driving the new vehicle. But at least I know the Jeep doesn't leak, and the windshield wipers certainly work well.
Anyway, as for this one being a 2015 instead of a 2016, I don't think that really makes much difference. For one thing, Jeep started building the 2016s on 09/01/2015. The build date on the tag for the 2015 we got says it was built in 09/2015. It was delivered from the factory to the dealer on 09/30, and had 12 miles on the odometer when we got to the dealer and looked at it. So it's quite possible that this might have been the LAST 2015 built.
As for the optionals, I'm rather glad to not be getting the optional 7 spoke wheels I originally ordered. I'm probably going to want to put wider tires on it eventually, and quite likely I will need to buy wider tires to do that. And the wider tires would mean I would need a better offset to the wheels or else use wheel spacers to keep the stock wheels. So I would have felt dumb about throwing away the $600 I paid for the optional wheels, which are the same size and offset of the stock wheels. The other optionals that I didn't order for the original Jeep were the radio/navigation system, automatic temp control for the AC, and a connectivity group. Honestly, I can live with all three, and push come to shove, probably things I should have ordered anyway. As Connie said, she thinks this one is actually better than what I had originally ordered. She likes the interior, and says that the stock wheels and tires actually look a LOT better in person than they did in pictures.
So maybe this all worked out for the best. Well, except for not taking the trip out west. But I guess that can be some other time. And thankfully, today was the first day in weeks that I didn't have to take an excedrin for the darn headache this gave me every day.
snowgyre
Well-known member
Wow, Warner Robins is quite a drive for you! I'm glad you found a jeep you liked, I'm just surprised you couldn't find one a bit closer to you. Warner Robins seems like such a random location to find a new vehicle at, although I guess they're trying to turn it into the major receiving area for new cars in Georgia (for cars arriving at the Savannah Port)? I know a lot of cars get shipped to the port in Brunswick too.
That sucks about the jeep in Texas though. I wonder what the rail holdup was. Freight typically gets priority on rails (over commuter services anyway).
I'm hoping that someday I'll be able to afford a nicer car. I can generally only dish out enough money at any given time to get a car that's at least a decade old. I'm currently driving a 1999 Honda Accord. A significant portion of my monthly paycheck goes toward school loans (still have 9 years to go, ....yay), so having another monthly bill just isn't reasonable for me. I pay for used cars with cash. Somewhat ironically, the older cars don't tend to depreciate in value as badly as the newer cars. Drive a new car off the lot and it's automatically worth about only 90% of what you paid for it. I've always thought that sucked.
That sucks about the jeep in Texas though. I wonder what the rail holdup was. Freight typically gets priority on rails (over commuter services anyway).
I'm hoping that someday I'll be able to afford a nicer car. I can generally only dish out enough money at any given time to get a car that's at least a decade old. I'm currently driving a 1999 Honda Accord. A significant portion of my monthly paycheck goes toward school loans (still have 9 years to go, ....yay), so having another monthly bill just isn't reasonable for me. I pay for used cars with cash. Somewhat ironically, the older cars don't tend to depreciate in value as badly as the newer cars. Drive a new car off the lot and it's automatically worth about only 90% of what you paid for it. I've always thought that sucked.
It was actually only about a 3.5 hour drive. I was expecting it to be more like 4.5 hours. Believe me I searched hard to find that PLAN B Jeep. I had specific things I wanted which narrowed down the possibilities quite a bit. And the fact that 2015s were getting scarce on dealer's lots, and the 2016s not being delivered to them yet, really made things tough. So I believe I am actually very lucky that I found one so close with the options I insisted on.
The Warner Robins dealership seemed quite packed with new vehicles, and I saw a LOT of wranglers on the lot. Most were the 4 door variety, however.
I'll probably never know what the problem was at the railyard. I've batted all kinds of ideas around in my head, but they are all just guesses based on no data being provided at all.
Well, it helps that I sold one car to help pay for this new one. One interesting thing about these Jeep Wranglers is that they seem to hold their value pretty well in the market place. Which is one reason why I didn't just balk at the idea of buying a 2015 while 2016s were being shipped from the factory.
The options that this Jeep has that the one I ordered in Houston doesn't were:
- Something called a "connectivity group", which included blue tooth for smart phones (which I don't use anyway) and a more comprehensive display on the dash for engine codes, tire pressure, etc. I probably should have ordered that anyway just for the dash display upgrade.
- Automatic temperature control for the AC. Not important to me since I normally set up the AC and heat in vehicles manually anyway, but not worth rejecting he vehicle because it had it.
- Upgraded radio with NAV. I had planned on just getting the plain vanilla radio and at some point put in an aftermarket unit that would be rated much higher for the navigation capabilities. But again, I felt I could live with this as the tradeoff of getting the Jeep NOW.
The options that I HAD to have or it was no deal were:
- Automatic transmission. Connie just won't drive a stick shift, and since I sold her car to buy the Jeep, I wanted her to feel it is primarily HER Jeep.
- White paint job. I could have settled for silver gray instead. But black and red seemed to be the most popular, neither of which I wanted. White just seems more practical here in Florida.
- Color matched hard top. Had a soft top before, and didn't like it. And it didn't make any sense to me to get a white vehicle only to have a black hard top on it.
- 3.73 gear ratio in the front and rear differentials.
- Posi-traction rear differential.
If I couldn't find a Jeep with all the above, I wouldn't be buying one.
As I mentioned, I felt that the optional wheels I ordered on the Jeep from the Houston dealer were a mistake on my part. So I felt that the stock wheels on the one from Georgia were actually on the plus side of the sheet.
The dealer in Houston said he will refund my deposit, so that is generous of him. He could have kept it and I wouldn't have kicked up a fuss about it. It wasn't his fault, and he is losing a sale here.
Connie and I need to talk about our travel plans. I don't think we'll be going out to Texas and points west this year. Kind of missed the open window on that trip.
Mech
Member
So ok I'm on vacation and have had a few glasses of scotch in me.
So please be kind.
20 or so years ago.
my daughter was like 14-15 years old at the time and she was kinda on the "outs" with the local kids and a bit over weight.
We live in a kinda fancy area.
Nicest girl in the world but yet not into the "cheerleader" crowd.
Kinda a bad thing if you ain't a nerdy techy or a jock.
She is an accomplished tech diver but the fancy kids just can't understand that.
So what does a dumb ass dad like me do???
We bought a "basket case" corvette.
We brought it home in boxes and what couldn't fit in the boxes was on a trailer.
I made her put it together by herself.
She did all the upholstery.... My dad bought the upulstery kit.
She did all the bodywork....her uncle gave her criticism.
She blew "black snot" for days.
Yeah black 'vette black snot.
I put in 18k to make it run right and then paid for the paint job.
So when she turned 16 her 'vette was complete .
Took her diving test on it.
She ran it for 10 years with no tickets or bumps and then just gave it back.
We have a large spot and her 'vette is here.
I can post pics (now that I know how) .
Really proud of my kid.
10 or so years with a 475 rwhp never a ticket or a bump and then just gave it back to me.
Cool kid.
Cool corvette.
Proud Dad.
'Nuff said.
Can show some nice pics.
Andy
So please be kind.
20 or so years ago.
my daughter was like 14-15 years old at the time and she was kinda on the "outs" with the local kids and a bit over weight.
We live in a kinda fancy area.
Nicest girl in the world but yet not into the "cheerleader" crowd.
Kinda a bad thing if you ain't a nerdy techy or a jock.
She is an accomplished tech diver but the fancy kids just can't understand that.
So what does a dumb ass dad like me do???
We bought a "basket case" corvette.
We brought it home in boxes and what couldn't fit in the boxes was on a trailer.
I made her put it together by herself.
She did all the upholstery.... My dad bought the upulstery kit.
She did all the bodywork....her uncle gave her criticism.
She blew "black snot" for days.
Yeah black 'vette black snot.
I put in 18k to make it run right and then paid for the paint job.
So when she turned 16 her 'vette was complete .
Took her diving test on it.
She ran it for 10 years with no tickets or bumps and then just gave it back.
We have a large spot and her 'vette is here.
I can post pics (now that I know how) .
Really proud of my kid.
10 or so years with a 475 rwhp never a ticket or a bump and then just gave it back to me.
Cool kid.
Cool corvette.
Proud Dad.
'Nuff said.
Can show some nice pics.
Andy
You just have to wonder, WHY????