Snake Bite!

[A12pilot]

Good on ya, Steve-O! Yep... love this car and it grabs more attention than any other I've had. Amazing. It seems to draw everyone to it. I love letting people sit in it and get pictures. The sound with the Corsa is awesome!! I've put about 250 miles on it since I got it. Once the brakes are done I'm through with maintenance items on it.

The brake redo is new slotted rotors, pads, a flush, and the calipers are being coated Red. Should be back on the road in another week. Then its onto a few interior improvements. Pics soon! It's running great, and cool, since the fan and radiator improvements.

Cheers
Dave

[njsteve]

Cool. One caveat on brakes: be careful when you place the tire/rim back on the front wheel studs. If you approach the studs at the wrong angle you risk the chance of the edge of the rim denting the mild steel brake line that serves as the crossover from one half of the caliper (at the bottom), to other half. That stupid little steel line is not serviced as a separate part.

Funny story from back in the day: Our home base was located down in Central Florida - just as hot as Houston, when we were building this project car. It always ran hot in traffic when it was new - into the yellow line portion of the gauge which is around 230 degrees. We told Team Viper about the problems in hot weather traffic. They eventually came up with a fix for the problem...they removed the yellow portion of the gauge face on subsequent models so it only showed red around 250. ;-p

My fix when racing was to pull the A/C compressor lead off the compressor. This way when I turned on the A/C it would activate the electric fan immediately but not the compressor itself - kind of like a manual/override fan switch.