The car’s stance is lower than stock.
 Due to the repositioned radiator, these hood pins actually do keep the hood down since the OEM latch had to be removed for space. |
Now for some fangs. The car was taken apart to get the V10 manipulated into the factory engine bay; the engine is basically stock, and is frankly more then enough for any sane street project. The hard work here was raising the firewall and trans-tunnel opening 1 ½” for engine/transmission clearance purposes. The aftermarket radiator was also moved and remounted forward three inches; that handwork is covered up using a custom shield above the radiator. This effort did mean that the hood pins popular back in the musclecar day actually work; there was no room left for the stock hood latch behind the grille…
One big requirement to effectively using late model technology is adapting the peripheral computers to the project; this was a primary reason for buying the entire wrecked car, not just an engine. The computer “black box” ended up in the driver’s side kick-panel along with the relays required. Earl Brown had Tim Spencer was also involved in the fabrication end of the project, with Ernie Miyamoto welding together a custom exhaust system.
Earl brown remembered that one of the toughest parts of this car was figuring out and installing the sensor wiring to make the Viper gauges function properly.
We’ve to got admit, this leather upholstery puts anything the factory ever did to shame.