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Viper 1800 Harddrive TV.

admin — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 04:02:44 +0000

Earlier last year The ART Tx Mile car has filmed for short Tv Segment TBA.

Kuno Whittmer Drives the 240Mph Texas Mile Viper around Texas World Speedway.

admin — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 15:06:20 +0000

Two weeks ago at the Dodge Viper Cup event in Texas, ART brought out the World's fastest viper ever to make some exhibition runs around the Texas World Speedway Oval. With Kuno Whittmer behind the wheel and Todd Nelson in the Passenger seat, they clocked over 230 mph on the straightaway.

This is just a Quick teaser, as the entire adventure was shot for an upcoming TV show, TBA.

A.R.T. 2g Viper GTS Project.

admin — Sun, 05 Jun 2011 14:30:44 +0000

The guys at ART decided to dust of this old project and get her running agian. The intent of the build is simply to showcase some ofour talents with some cool new parts, and most of all show it off beating up on other Vipers around the country.

Lets hope we can keep 1000+ whp from melting the car down on a road course.

Stay tuned for more details on the Build and Progress.

Gallery Here.

ART Viper in-car footage of the Texas Mile

admin — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 06:07:32 +0000

This is the official video from the ART camp. It has numerous angles of the run from several diffent cameras.

Texas Mile Recap. ART Viper fastest car of the weekend! New Viper Record!

admin — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 17:55:53 +0000

This weekend at the Texas Mile was insane! The amount of cars runnning big number seemed very small in comparison to last year. None the less the ART Viper put down the fastest Mph for a car over the three day weekend.

Saturday morning, the ART crew was up bright and early preparing the car. About 7-8 cars made it down the track before the Hinson Corvette crashed and took out the the Timing System. Fortunately the driver was ok and the racing resumed about 2 hours later. About 11:30 the Viper made its first pass at 239 mph for the day.

A quick pull of the logs and Shane T says the boost didn't raise as expected. Fortunatly we did an little testing on the dyno a few days prior and found that the fresh air intake tubing could be removed with no raise in engine intake temps. Removing the Tubing before the turbo proved we could also run much higher boost levels.

The Last pass of the day the car went an astonishing 240.9 mph. Unfortunately the boost cut was set at 28 psi and the car violently shook in 5th gear trying to accelerate through the cut. The violent shock of the power unloading and loading busted the tranny up. The car coasted through the traps stuck in 5th gear.
The GPS on the car showed the "Ballista" at 247 mph before it stopped accelerating. Emotions ensued and the discision was finally made to not swap the spare transmission in the car in regards to the safety of our Driver. With the transmission problems there are just too many unknowns as to what could potentially be a very deadly situation. So we will regroup, investigate the damage and come back with a car that is 100% and safe for everyone!

With the Data and the things we learned this weekend. We will no doubt be back for more!
Thanks to All that helped make this possible this weekend.

Todd Nelson, David Weaver, Chriss Pharr, Omar Alvarez, Jaime Quintero, Matt White, Blake and Tasha Hornsby, Tayler Stull, Shane T, Jake @ Tial, The entire ART FAMILY and CREW, the cute girl in peru for answering our phones while we where gone, and to all the industry friends that made this all possible!
There were so many people involved with this car and to make this happen, you guys are not forgotten!

Be Sure to Check out the Gallery of pictures from the event, it will be growing over the next few days.

ART Ballista Dodge Viper goes 240.9 mph! Fastest Viper down the Mile.

admin — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 16:25:16 +0000

March 2011 Texas Mile Pictures

admin — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 16:23:15 +0000

Check back as the Gallery gets updated as the pictures come in.

There were a ton of cool supercars at this years event, although not as many big hitters. The red Porsche was my next favorite next to the ART viper

it would have been cool to see the cars run back to back of each other. Maybe next time someone can cordinate some of the fast cars to run together.

Another video of the Hinson Corvette Crash

admin — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 16:08:51 +0000

This time a slightly better video of the Hinson Corvette Flipping after a Drag Radial Exploded at over 200+mph.

Texas Mile Hinson Corvette Crash

admin — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 16:05:11 +0000

Saturday at the Texas Mile the 106mm Hinson Corvette barrel rolled at over 200mph right in front my eyes at the end of the Mile. Here's the footage. Credits to Filmer as filmed from the ART pit

Accident Insurance

Texas Mile day one recap. ART.

admin — Sat, 26 Mar 2011 02:23:05 +0000

Day one is wrapped up at the mile. The ART "ballista" Viper posted the fastest time of the day. With a new driver behind the wheel, the Viper made three passes today.

The first pass was an awesome shakedown run putting up 225 mph. The second pass didnt go so well as the gps sensor in the car quit working as soon as the car left the line. A quick fix, and we were back in line for a third pass.

With the gps sensor taped to the outside if the car, the 3rd pass put us at 228mph. The driver missed 4th gear , recovered and mashed back on the gas pedal. The Viper still put of the fastest time of the day.

Tomorrow we will be up early with the car in line ready to make a record breaking pass. Wish us luck.