Customer"s Beautiful Blue Dodge Viper SRT with Wheels and Upgrades

One of our customers, Abdulaziz Alrasheed, has a gorgeous blue Dodge SRT Viper that he recently upgraded quite a bit. He purchased an Agency Power front lip and wing from us that really makes his ride stand out. The Niche wheels on his car are from Vivid Racing’s old Project SRT Viper, which you may recall. The Vicenza wheels are a 20×10.5 in the front and a 21×12.5 in the rear with some big tires to match.  The 1-piece monoblock forged wheels retain a lightweight function and the root beer finish makes them hard to miss.

Abdulaziz just shipped his car to Miami so it can undergo a beastly twin-turbo upgrade. It will soon sound and perform as beastly as it appears on the outside. Take a look at the photos he sent us below and see for yourself!

Click on the links below to check out the parts up-close: 

Agency Power front lip spoiler

Agency Power rear wing

Niche Vicenza wheels

Customer"s Beautiful Blue Dodge Viper SRT with Wheels and Upgrades

Our Gift to Men on Valentines Day

We love wheels more than the average tuner. We always end up getting multiple sets for our projects cars because, we like to party, and you can never really have enough wheels. So, when our friends over at MHT sent us their customer’s custom painted 2014 Mercedes Benz SL550 v8 Bi-Turbo with custom Niche Essen wheels, we couldn’t help but share these drool worthy pictures. Not only is the SL550 the future in luxury convertibles but the performance this thing puts out, is uncanny. But with every new, insane car, comes the person who wants something better, something….Custom!

This customer up’d his game with a custom matte paint. He then made sure the the color and finish of his Essen wheels would compliment the custom color. The detail in the Essen wheels is something that the pictures don’t do justice. We had a set in the shop the other day, and the machined pattern in the wheel, makes these wheels the perfect finishing touch to this silver assassin. To make sure the wheels looked as good as possible, he upgraded his suspension with some H&R springs and wrapped those custom wheels with Continental Tires 245/35/20 – 285/30/20.

These pictures are our present to every man out there doing some, not so manly, things out there today… Enjoy!

 

Our Gift to Men on Valentines Day

Seibon Hosts Our Viper Carbon Creation at 2013 SEMA

Although this isn’t our first SEMA rodeo, there is something exciting about seeing a project car come to together for thousands to see. SEMA is the place where car dreams, become a reality! The dopest mods and latest product creations are all revealed, for people from around the world to see. When we were trying to decide what car to take to the 2013 SEMA Show in Las Vegas, we wanted to branch out of our normal foreign facade, and get in touch with our American roots. We went the domestic route to show people that, although we specialize in foreign cars, we still got love for the homeland. We are excited to present not one, but two domestic project cars this year at SEMA. In case you’ve been living under a rock; we have our Ford Focus ST and our Dodge Viper SRT. The Focus will be at the Toyo Tires booth and the Viper is on display at the Seibon Carbon booth. We will be posting Focus pictures later in the day, but this blog is all about the first look at our Viper!

The Viper is the perfect marriage of heart, history and new age technology. The issue with Viper’s in the past has been that they don’t embrace modern technology. They are excessively heavy, bulky and still trying to relish the past. The latest SRT (Street Racing Technology) breaks the molds of all those concerns. No only is the body made exceptionally lighter but the technology within the car, is made to cater to the driver, not the other way around. Although the car is made lighter through carbon fiber and aluminum features, there was still room for improvement, not only in weight, but aesthetically as well.

We worked with Seibon to make some awesome carbon elements. The most talked about addition was the carbon fiber hood. We left it in it’s raw carbon form for the first pre-SEMA photoshoot to show the full extent of the modification. Other accents that Seibon created was a  front lip, front canards, rear diffuser, side skirt, and rear wing spoiler. Agency Power designed a custom cold air intake system and will be producing more performance enhancing modifications after SEMA. To see what Agency Power has in mind, click HERE. To finish it all off we went with a wheel that turns heads, no matter what car they’re on. Niche Vicenza wheels are a 20×10.5 in the front and a 21×12.5 in the rear. The 1 piece monoblock forged construction still retains a lightweight function and the root beer finish makes them the perfect touch of sex on the already irresistible white body.

Here’s our first look at the vicious reptile on display in the Seibon booth. Follow all our SEMA debauchery HERE.

Seibon Hosts Our Viper Carbon Creation at 2013 SEMA

First Look at the Niche Essen Cast Wheels from MHT

Not only is SEMA right around the corner, but it’s also a month away from Black Friday, and Cyber Monday. People are slowly releasing their new products before the holiday season. Which leaves us with no shortage of new products and great deals!

MHT Wheels kills it with new products this time of year. They release new wheels for some of our most beloved wheel brands like, Niche Wheels. MHT is sending Niche out the gates early this year, with their brand new ESSEN Cast Wheels.  Although Niche is known for their jaw dropping forged wheels, the new Niche ESSEN Sport Series gives you the same quality, but at a fraction of the price that forged wheels carry. The ESSEN come in Silver Machined or Matte Black. They did a shoot with them on an Audi A7, but Niche lists  Camaro SS/ LS, Jaguar, 350Z, F01 7 series, Audi S7 and S8 or Old SL and CLS for other possible applications, pending the desired size specifications. They can be purchased in the following sizes:

• 19×8.5
• 19×10
• 20×9.0
• 20×10
• 20×10.5
• 21×9
• 21×10.5

They will be ready for purchase on November 11, 2013. Pre-order a set today by emailing sales@vividracing.com. Let us know what you think of the new Niche wheels in the comment section below. Or tell us what car you could see them on, on our Facebook page, Twitter @vividracingcom or Instagram @vividracing. 

First Look at the Niche Essen Cast Wheels from MHT

Lamborghini Aventador Exotic Sounds and Stance with Video

The Lamborghini Aventador is a very impressive machine.  Who would have thought that the Murcielago could be out done.  But they did.  Equipped with a 6.5L V12 engine and a 7speed dual clutch transmission, the new stylings of the Aventador are amazing.  Though we have had the privelage in the past of working on several other supercars such as the Lamborghini LP640, Lamborghini Murcielago Roadster, Bugatti Veyron, and a heap of other Ferrari and Porsche cars, its not everyday that something the cost of a house you get to play with.  As an established customer having just modified his Ferrari 458 with a set of HRE Wheels, he was ready to make this Aventador simply stunning.

The first modifications we did was the Niche 1 piece forged wheels in 20×9 and 21×13 with Pirelli tires.  The cost of the tires fitted alone could have equipped several tuner cars needs!  The Pirelli were a 255/30/20 up front and a 355/25/21 in the rear.  With the dark tinted and brushed finished, the wheels matched with matte black finish very well while showing off the large yellow carbon ceramic brakes.

Because the Aventador already has some extreme styling, we wanted to give the rear end a stronger more aggressive look to follow the rake of the car.  We mounted a Mansory matte carbon wing to get this done.  The base of the wing replaces the factory part and then features 2 uprights with the top level wing blade.  This still functions with the hydraulic system that raises at a certain speed.  The precision and quality of the Mansory is amazing down to the engraved carbon fiber logo from Mansory.  Having done a previous Range Rover with a full Mansory kit, we expected nothing less.

The final piece to this upgrade kit was the Capristo Racing Exhaust for the Lamborghini.  Capristo has always focused on highly engineered and tested exhaust system for top level sports cars.  Their portfolio of exhausts fit everything from Ferrari, Porsche, Mercedes, Bentley, and of course, Lamborghini.  The Capristo system for the Aventador is no different.  The factory exhaust is extremely heavy and definitely restricts the sound of the V12 engine.  Not only saving weight off the rear end, the exhaust system enables you to exceed the factory 700HP Lamborghini has given it.  Like every other Lamborghini I have personally heard revving up, its make any one in audible range stop what their doing to go see what this F1 race car like sound is!  Check out the photos and the 2 videos we put together on this completed project.

 

 

Lamborghini Aventador Exotic Sounds and Stance with Video