Re: More ways to gain speed !!!

From: Gordon Adams (gta0001@jove.acs.unt.edu)
Date: Wed Dec 23 1998 - 12:48:34 EST


who wouldn't want a viper, but at that price you could have three R/T's
(base) and about $ 10,000 to spend fixing them up. but on the upside if you
check the sticker, the Viper does get better gas mileage than a Dakota R/T

Viper Dak R/T
City 12 City 12
Hwy 21 Hwy 17

later
gordon
99 dak r/t rc

-----Original Message-----
From: Kev99RT@aol.com <Kev99RT@aol.com>
To: dakota-truck@buffnet.net <dakota-truck@buffnet.net>
Date: Wednesday, December 23, 1998 11:50 AM
Subject: DML: More ways to gain speed !!!

>
> Hey, I went to the track last night to run my R/T which wasn't that great
due
>to tons of fog (high humidity) and it wasn't that cool out. I was looking
to
>break my 14.8 but the best I could do is a 14.9. There was a guy that came
up
>to me and started talking about my truck and said he has a '94 that runs a
>12.9 so I started to listen. He gave me tons of ideas on low cost mods to
>make. I am in florida and he said there is a place called SuperChips in
>Orlando that will re-do my whole computer and spend a whole day with it on
the
>dyno to optimize it for like $300 he said he gained 28hp. I of course asked
>about mine being an OBDII and he said they can work with those. He also
said
>to take the clamp off of the end of the leaf springs and it will hook
better
>and not affect anything else. He didn't have his truck out there but he did
>have a Viper GTS coupe. It ran an 11.8@121 he took me for a ride and we got
>going 140 in like 8 seconds. I love Dakotas and all but good god, I want a
>Viper. I am suposed to call him soon about the Chip thing and he is gonna
>take his Dakota out to the track soon, so i'm gonna be getting more info
from
>him. I wanna make my truck REAL fast but I don't wanna spend tons of money
to
>do so, and I think this guy can help.
>
>Kevin Wagner.
>'99 Black R/T
>



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