I bought a 1993 Dodge Viper early last year in the North East and unfortunately had to relocate shortly after and was unable to take the vehicle to Chuck Tater to get the head gasket upgraded. I smell very slight coolant scent around the exhaust manifolds (not sure if that's normal, but haven't seen any runs or puddles underneath vehicle).

I have reached out to the 2 dealerships listed as friendly viper dealers list and so far its been a terrible experience, going on a week of trying to get a quote. I keep getting a run around and keep being told I will get a call back but never do, email has been even worse as its either we will send you a quote by end of day and nothing. So at this point i'm in a bind. If they are this awful in just getting me basic information I can only imagine what happens when they get a hold of my vehicle (going through a nightmare service / insurance issue on my Corvette about to be 4 months so its left me pretty frustrated for things like this).

I replaced spark plugs today (they were not wet but smelled of fuel, seemed like a cylinder not firing when I started it up). Found a ripped plug wire so will need to replace that, but I would love for this car to be running at 100%. It only has 9,700 miles on it and I definitely have been feeling that its lacking power that it should have.

Anyone local to the Austin, Texas area or nearby that would be interested in helping to replace the head gaskets and get this snake back in shape? I am open to paying someone to do this for me based on your experience level. I'd hate for the car to just sit as I just put some brand new tires on all 4 and brakes and planned on driving it more than I've been able to due to reliability concerns (had to wait 6 months before I was able to get tires in since it had the original 1993 ones on it). Spark plug wires hopefully should fix the power issue as soon as I get those but figured I just try to take care of everything at once.

Let me know, maybe might even be open to selling the vehicle for the right offer (Just bought a GT-R which seems to be taking most of my time now).

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