How to marry old styling with new technology.

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How to marry old styling with new technology.

And Rob Andersen should appreciate this because it's a manual transmission.
http://amp.timeinc.net/thedrive/news/24909/this-dodge-viper-with-a-plymouth-barracuda-body-is-modern-muscle-done-right?source=dam

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John Bump said…
I have a friend who put a down payment on a viper drivetrain before realizing how difficult those are to work on. The theft prevention system will turn off the engine if it thinks it's being stolen, you have to get the ecu reflashed for several hundred dollars to get it back to functionality, and it looks for every single sensor that's supposed to be on the car and makes sure that the sensor state matches what it should, to determine whether to trip. They said if you're doing a swap, the best idea is to keep the viper and put the engine back in the viper and hook it up, then reflash it, then put it back in the target car, if you trigger the theft lock, because it's so hard to get it to start up the first time it's been reflashed unless all the sensors are perfect. (And every time you do this it untunes the ecu and has to adaptively retune itself as it runs.)
November 15, 2018 at 2:16 PM
Jason ON said…
That sounds like a huge PITA.
November 15, 2018 at 2:40 PM
John Bump said…
Yeah. Once they discussed it more he got his down payment back under the philosophy that they said it was everything he needed to run, and he pointed out that missing the thirty or so sensors that are embedded at various points in the car means it isn't ready to run.
November 15, 2018 at 4:10 PM
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