Well, today certainly was an interesting day. I was woken up by my good friend James to run and pick up a crank sensor for a certain '04 TT Viper he has been working on. He informed me that the original had failed mid pull on LMR's dyno the night before and needed me to pick up the sensor and run him down to LMR where the Viper was still located. "Sure", I said to him and went and got the part and picked him up and away we went. When we arrived at LMR there was no available lift for fitting the sensor so we decided to put the car on jack stands and get to work. Well as we soon found out, the Heffner kit that is installed on this car had a different plan for us... After we got it on the stands we noticed we could see the sensor, we could even touch the sensor, but one of the turbochargers and its wastegate were not going to let us remove the sensor. Shop was closing down and we had run out of time and believe it or not, the car at that point was starting fine. It was a risky decision but we made it, we were going to try and drive it home. Bad idea. We made it about 2 blocks before it died and we were left in the road. We called a wrecker after we pushed it off the road. 2 hours later, wrecker shows up. By then it was dark, and we are not. We had been waiting for 2 hours in the dark, in the ghetto, with a 150,000 dollar car. The car is now safe at home in the garage, ready to have the sensor put in tomorrow and to have the tune buttoned up before this Viper returns to its owner. Man, what a day.
To those who were wondering it made 950 to the tire on drag radials, could have been better.
