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Old 03-19-2013, 08:56 AM
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The Serpent Viper production is in full swing.

Car-kits will ship just before the weekend, worldwide, so at your LHS in next 2 weeks, or less, depending on location.

We are sorry for the delays, but we want to ship the Serpent Viper 977 in top-condition.



The 1st car-kit kit 00001 fresh from the production department has been build in last hours here n the Netherlands, is error-free and went together super nicely.



We will keep our resellers informed about the delivery time as well as we can. We know the season, especially in Europe and USA as well , is getting started and you are all anxious to build and race, also with the free Easter weekend coming up.



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Old 03-19-2013, 08:57 AM
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That was copied from the Serpent blog
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Old 03-19-2013, 05:33 PM
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Michael Salven's car with some photo editing..

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Old 03-20-2013, 01:03 AM
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Can I use the bodies of the 966 in the 977 viper? Are the holes the same distance?
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Old 03-20-2013, 01:58 AM
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Originally Posted by Valerio
Can I use the bodies of the 966 in the 977 viper? Are the holes the same distance?
The holes are different, but with a little modification, you can still use bodies from the 966.....
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i have built a serpnt car since the 950
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correction..i have not built a serpent car since the 950
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Old 03-22-2013, 02:27 PM
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hi there guys,just started building last night,run into one problem,as per the manual,trying to run 2.5mm bottom and 2.0mm top on the front uprights.with 4 shims on the inside of the upright and .5mm offset ,i cant get this setting the drive shafts bind,not a biggie but just wondering if this has happened to anyone else,ill just go wider in the front.
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Will there be an E version of this car?
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Old 03-25-2013, 02:23 AM
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Originally Posted by burty
hi there guys,just started building last night,run into one problem,as per the manual,trying to run 2.5mm bottom and 2.0mm top on the front uprights.with 4 shims on the inside of the upright and .5mm offset ,i cant get this setting the drive shafts bind,not a biggie but just wondering if this has happened to anyone else,ill just go wider in the front.
cheers Burty.
with wheels on the car, how small is the trackwidth then?
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hi there m7h,its all good now,i just had a panic attack i think,track width with wheels on was to narrow anyway,with the manual settings for the front hubs it ends up at 248mm.I should of checked with wheels on before I posted
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Finally got the opportunity to run the car this last weekend at the Airtronics GP at GLARCRC. My dad and I did some testing with the flex system and we got some results. You can actually take the aluminum post that connects the radio tray to the front deck that holds the Ackermann to the car out and put a small bearing with a shim on top of it screwed down by the same screw in place of the regular flex system. This gives the car more flex and through our testing it makes the car twitchier and it gives it more steering. However we stuck with the original flex system with the screws tied all the way down which made the car planted in the rear but took away from the initial and mid-corner steering. It is food for thought and is also something to try. The car was amazing and we're still trying to find a good setup so it will only get faster.
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Originally Posted by bcebwecb
Finally got the opportunity to run the car this last weekend at the Airtronics GP at GLARCRC. My dad and I did some testing with the flex system and we got some results. You can actually take the aluminum post that connects the radio tray to the front deck that holds the Ackermann to the car out and put a small bearing with a shim on top of it screwed down by the same screw in place of the regular flex system. This gives the car more flex and through our testing it makes the car twitchier and it gives it more steering. However we stuck with the original flex system with the screws tied all the way down which made the car planted in the rear but took away from the initial and mid-corner steering. It is food for thought and is also something to try. The car was amazing and we're still trying to find a good setup so it will only get faster.
Can you post your setup here?
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Originally Posted by dougday
Can you post your setup here?

We based our setup off of Morganti's "Homestead FSS" setup which can be found here: http://serpent.com/racing/setups/

We are still working on a setup and will post it as soon as we feel it is a fast, solid setup. Remember the ROAR Nationals will be hosted in September at GLARCRC!
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Old 03-26-2013, 03:06 PM
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Serpent Viper 977 in stock and shipping out to costumers today!!!
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