I have just seen this post and I just could not resist posting.
Being a Viper owner/builder I to have my own opinions of the kit which (some) are :-
- It does have the possibility of being a good kit.
- Some of the mountings for the suspension and differential were not correct and took hack saws, trolley jacks and files to get anywhere close.
- The body is just plain crap (I could use more basic terminoligy if you wish) - See below
- The brackets you get with the kit may as well go straight in the bin.
- The shock absorbers and springs purchased from Ken Cook specifically for that particular kit do not fit.
- Some of the fibreglass panels designed for the kit do not fit (may aswell throw away as I had to make my own).
- I gave up with technical support soon after discovering my first problem when the infamous phrase "well mine does" was said.
That's just for starters.
As for the body (specifically) :-
- The mould is crap
- The mould was not put together properly when my body was made producing LARGE ridges down the seams
- Whoever made the body could not be bothered to use a release agent and so had to use a hammer to get the body out of the mold... Hmmm... Lovely star (spider) cracks...
- The person who made my body had an aversion to using fibreglass. The body was so thing I have had to layer up the inside just to make it adequate!
- The body does not fit the chassis (or my chassis anyway) as I had to cut it in half to get it to fit the arches properly)... Was the chassis made on a jig???... probably not!
- The doors do not match
- The doors hardly fit the apertures
- The bonnet inner skin was not bonded to the outer skin therefore I had to cut out the inner skinso that the scoop was accessible
- The boot is completely a different shape to the boot aperture. The boot was nearly cut in half and bonded back together in the correct shape.
- Quality of the fibreglassing is very poor. Fibreglass was not formed properly into corners and as such you just get the gelcote holding the shape in the mold. Press on it and you go through the gelcote and there is a big hole underneath where the fibreglass has not layered up properly.
That's a reasonable start as I don't want to go into too much detail just yet!
I will allow the coffee man to retort! :boohoo:
Yes Ken... I bought my Viper from you! What a mistake to make! Feel free to look through some of my previous posts. You will get a true feeling of what a joy this kit has been to build so far!