Re: Re: GMC Syclone/Typhoon

From: Sandman (sandman@swconnect.net)
Date: Thu May 18 2000 - 13:17:25 EDT


Actually the Viper V10 is a completely different design from the ground up.
It is nothing like the one in the trucks. One of our guys is a Viper tech and
he informed me of this. I was like you, I figured since it had about the same
specs it must be the same engine, but it isn't.

fdedip@whale-mail.com wrote:

> The V10 in the Ram and the Viper have always been the same engine.
> When they first were coming up with the Viper, they figured "hey, we
> got that V10 we've been designing for the Ram- lets stick that in
> there!" (except they hadn't actually made a V10 yet when they were
> making the Viper concept, so they had to do some welding) When they
> decided to produce it, they just decided to make the Viper version
> out of aluminum to keep the weight down.
> Flip
> ---- Begin Original Message ----
>
> From: Stlaurent Mr Steven <STLAURENTS@mctssa.usmc.mil>
> Sent: Wed, 17 May 2000 16:45:46 -0700
> To: "'dakota-truck@buffnet.net'" <dakota-truck@buffnet.net>
> Subject: RE: DML: Re: GMC Syclone/Typhoon
>
> I am hearing that the new RAM will have the gas version of the Viper
> V-10 as
> the upper end motor. But it will be detuned.....anyone has the take
> on
> this?
>
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