Come on Brian, we all know the Viper community is a small one and friendship is made pretty easily. Don't you think you're getting a little ahead of yourself? You're basically accusing Bobby of mis-representing the car to Kenny due to his friendship with Larry. I would think he, as a professional, would be above that. Would you lie and cover up shit from the SEC(or whatever org covers mortgages) for a friend? I don't think so. Think you could give Bobby a break? You need to step back and look at your own post and how accusatory(sp) they are. Just seems that you've got a BIG ax to grind with Larry for some reason.
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Come on Brian, we all know the Viper community is a small one and friendship is made pretty easily. Don't you think you're getting a little ahead of yourself? You're basically accusing Bobby of mis-representing the car to Kenny due to his friendship with Larry. I would think he, as a professional, would be above that. Would you lie and cover up shit from the SEC(or whatever org covers mortgages) for a friend? I don't think so. Think you could give Bobby a break? You need to step back and look at your own post and how accusatory(sp) they are. Just seems that you've got a BIG ax to grind with Larry for some reason.
Mike, I have NO ax to grind with Larry. However, his handling of the Kenny situation was wrong. His smearing of Kenny along with his nutswingers is pathetic. Them not being truthful about "Kenny's vipertech" being friends with Macedo is inexcusable. Bobby aligned himself on the Macedo side of things yet no one mentioned that he was Larry's friend, instead of an UNbiased vipertech like he should have been. I haven't accused Bobby of anything. Just asking questions. Simms and the crowd was the one posting about Kenny's vipertech. Have you asked Simms why he's not letting this go and continues to trash Kenny??? See that's the problem here it's ok with your crowd if they gang up on Kenny, but you guys get upset when someone takes up for Kenny and calls their hand on some of their MISinformation.
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Mike, I have NO ax to grind with Larry. However, his handling of the Kenny situation was wrong. His smearing of Kenny along with his nutswingers is pathetic. Them not being truthful about "Kenny's vipertech" being friends with Macedo is inexcusable. Bobby aligned himself on the Macedo side of things yet no one mentioned that he was Larry's friend, instead of an UNbiased vipertech like he should have been. I haven't accused Bobby of anything. Just asking questions. Simms and the crowd was the one posting about Kenny's vipertech. Have you asked Simms why he's not letting this go and continues to trash Kenny??? See that's the problem here it's ok with your crowd if they gang up on Kenny, but you guys get upset when someone takes up for Kenny and calls their hand on some of their MISinformation.
Pointing out facts is not trashing anyone. NOBODY ever insinuated Bobby wasn't a friend of Larry's (as Mike said, there are A LOT OF FRIENDS in the viper community). He has worked on Kenny's viper long before Larry did. He is no more Larry's friend than Kenny's. The only thing stated was he was not EMPLOYED by M2. Being a professional, he would have no reason to not tell the truth. Bobby is a STAND UP GUY. He came on here as a professional and gave his UNbiased opinion. Nothing more.
I finally got to put a few miles on my Viper again to keep the new battery charged and to get all the fluids up to proper temperatures thanks to a few days of above freezing temperatures. It runs tremendously better than when Larry delivered my Viper to me July 1, 2006 - no surging, idle is correct for the cam, and no high idle hang up. Power comes on as gentle as I want it to or as violently fast as I want it to, though I haven't even come close to even half throttle yet (roads have too much salt on them still).
Larry's dyno numbers for the 93 octane gas I use:
2000 RPM = 250 rwHP & 650 rwTorque
2500 RPM = 320 rwHP & 720 rwTorque
3000 RPM = 450 rwHP & 780 rwTorque
3500 RPM = 540 rwHP & 820 rwTorque
4000 RPM = 620 rwHP & 820 rwTorque
4500 RPM = 680 rwHP & 800 rwTorque
5000 RPM = 720 rwHP & 760 rwTorque
5500 RPM = 725 rwHP & 700 rwTorque
I worked on getting the heat/no heat problem fixed by getting air out of the cooling system. It took a gallon total of a 50-50% mix of distilled water and the Mopar brand anti-freeze that Larry Macedo used so far in getting the system to be right. Isn't a gallon low a pretty big amount to be low?
I have also set the clock to the correct time.
Again, I would rather hear the engine running than the radio, so I didn't set any stations.
__________________ Kenny's Viper built and tuned right by Underground Racing 1,021 rwHP and 955 rwTorque using catalytic converters and 93 octane pump gas - 20.0 MPG HWY and a whole lot less driven normally!
Added another quart of distilled water/anti-freeze today.
That's 5 quarts missing from the 12.8 quarts total the cooling system has per the 2002 Viper Shop Manual...
...and it still burps air even though I added almost half the total amout of coolant fluids required.
There is absolutely no evidence of a coolant leak, either. Little things like this after my tuner had been aware of a problem with the temperature guage acting weird in the summer of 2006 when I told him about it suggesting that there was air in my cooling system or something was wrong with the thermostat he installed and having 5 months to make my car right on his second chance after that and I still have minor issues with things not being right does nothing to give me any confidence in the overall job he did.
Glad to hear the car is running. One thing to remember a car is a piece of machinery and like all machines requires basic work to be maintained well. I don't think that's TOO big a deal that you had to add coolant in it to bring it up to proper temp. And if it still burps air, then keep adding some until it stops. If there's no leaks like you said then it WILL stop at a certain point.
Enjoy the car.
Added another quart of distilled water/anti-freeze today.
That's 5 quarts missing from the 12.8 quarts total the cooling system has per the 2002 Viper Shop Manual...
...and it still burps air even though I added almost half the total amout of coolant fluids required.
There is absolutely no evidence of a coolant leak, either. Little things like this after my tuner had been aware of a problem with the temperature guage acting weird in the summer of 2006 when I told him about it suggesting that there was air in my cooling system or something was wrong with the thermostat he installed and having 5 months to make my car right on his second chance after that and I still have minor issues with things not being right does nothing to give me any confidence in the overall job he did.
Kenny, respectfully, I think that at some point you are going to have to stop nitpicking. It seems that you're overplaying your hand? As a Viper owner you should be fully capable of taking care of coolant level yourself. Glad that you got the car back and that it's making great power. Good luck.
If you think that is bad, I will tell you all of the bullshit I had to go through with Heffner. Every once in a while, I had to put air in the tires. Can you fucking believe that?
I had/am having a bad personal experience with a tuner and have been even told to kill myself by someone who doesn't know me, right plumcrazy?
I don't know if you and some other people are hired assassins or what, but attacking the news reporter seems to make people not want to make an honest report of their experiences unless they are totally positive. This leaves the rest of the Viper community ignorant as to what reality is and can easily end up in a horrible losing situation where they lose a huge amout of money, the use of their car running right for well over a year, and their physical and mental health worrying about ever getting their Viper back again.
Viper Vendors & Tuners - Discussion threads relating to Vendors or Tuners, not personal attacks that belong in Anything Goes.
I have witnessed this site go from the Alley to the Sewer.
lol, more BS whinning from you. i agree, i shouldn't say that to a person like YOU at that time. but for crying out loud, you are the single most annoying person on this planet. i just want you to go away and never come back.
so, i'll change my comment to read "SRK, please tape your eyes shut and hands together so you cant type anymore"...is that better ?
does that make you feel all warm and cozy inside ? cause it sure seems like you want that feeling. didn't your parents hug you enough ?
I pulled a sparkplug to see how they looked and it was the same reach as the original spark plugs. I heard that the Jeff Morys Striker cylinder heads used hard to find extended reach spark plugs. I called Jeff Morys and found out Larry Macedo had put the wrong spark plugs in my car which is why he couldn't get it tuned right with the VEC2 and has my car not running right after having it back for 5 months to get it to run right. I pulled some more sparkplugs and they were all the wrong kind of sparkplugs!
Larry put in Autolite 3922 sparkplugs and the Striker heads require NGK LFR 7AIX sparkplugs.
A couple of months ago while Larry was working on my Viper on his second chance to make his work on my Viper be right my lawyer tried to call Larry and Scott picked up the phone and said Larry was unavailable to come to the phone. My Lawyer asked Scott about my Viper and Scott said he did not recall my car being there.
Look below for photos of Scott working on my Viper and notice what he is holding in his hands.
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