So here we are in the midst of an unprecedented change to our everyday lives.

There are many upsides to spending more time at home, especially for car enthusiasts. More time at home means more time to plough into your project or kit car projects.

Get in the garage

So if you own a garage then lockdown shouldn’t be a problem for you. You can continue with your project as normal with little to no disruption from the outside word. Lock yourself away and get that project finished once and for all. No excuses.

Plan, Plan, Plan

One of the best things about quarantine is an abundance of time to think and reflect. If you are just starting out on a project car this is a great opportunity. For example, if you want to rebuild the engine, now is the time to sit down and decide what your application will be before you start buying parts (i.e. drag racing vs. Sunday cruising). From this you can make a plan of what you want to achieve and what you will need.

Order Online

Many online retailers are still open. The economy still needs to continue so spending online is a great way of helping this tick along. Do however expect some delay in delivery times as logistics services are focusing on essential items.

We would like to reassure our customers that we are currently open for online orders and these will be processed as normal. Click here to shop

Within our online shop you will find a large selection of very useful parts and components for your silicone or rubber hoses and aluminium pipes. All manufactured to a very high-quality standard, manufactured to our exacting specification these parts are very hard to find, and very handy to have around.

We supply the following:

– Hose blanking plugs: designed to push inside a hose and provide a strong secure seal in any silicone hose, without slipping out.

– Pipe Blanking caps: Specially designed cover / dust caps for blocking off redundant connections, seal off vacuum connections, carburettors, Intake manifolds etc..

– Aluminium Weld-on Boses: A range of weld-on boses available including barbed, female and male.

– Self Seal Hose take offs: Simply drill a small hole into the hose where required, and pop this special fitting into the hose to produce a special take-off port in a rubber or silicone hose.

See the whole range here.

Viper Performance once again bring you a unique and specialist product not available elsewhere!

Our UltraFlex silicone hoses offer fantastic flexibility with incredibly tight bend radius not at all possible with any Superflex silicone hoses or standard lengths.

What can they be used for?

Our silicone hoses are ideal for air intakes, cooling, water, or moderate pressure applications and larger diameters. They are also very popular with industrial applications, or marine application and even power generators.

What are they made from?

These lightweight hoses are handmade in silicone, reinforced with polyester fabric, and feature a wire spiral inside a specially convoluted section to create an extremely flexible hose connection otherwise not possible with other hoses.

What sizes and colours do they come in?

This hose only comes in 750mm long total length including 50mm flat section cuffs each end and are available in blue. Black is possible by special order and minimum 20 pieces per size.

Viper Performance hoses come with a lifetime warranty! So, order your own Ultra Flex Hose today.

Viper Performance manufactures and distributes the highest quality silicone hoses on the market today. All of our hoses are hand-built using the latest and best materials at a very competitive price. Automotive hoses are in fact our speciality and have been since 2005. But we don’t just produce standard car hoses, we can also produce hoses for commercial vehicles such as buses, and trucks.

Our silicone hoses are designed to last, out-performing many other hoses offered on the market today.

Why Silicone?

Silicone outperforms other natural organic rubber hose materials in terms of life expectancy and reliability on engine, radiator, heater and intercooler applications.

Our hoses are mandrel built to conform to the requirements of SAE J20 R1 (standard wall) class A. Alternatively in single ply construction, manufactured by continuous methods, to conform to the requirements of SAE J20 R3 and R4 class A.

Our Hoses are Euro 6 Compliant

January 2016 saw the introduction of Euro VI regulations for newly registered vehicles. This ensures manufacturers comply with the regulations which, primarily call for further reductions in levels of nitrogen oxides and particulate matter.

Working with several major vehicle producers, Viper Performance already have turbo-charger (CAC), coolant and air intake hoses, for Euro VI vehicles. Using high-quality silicone compounds, and newer Aramid fabrics capable of withstanding 250°C in our CAC hoses and revised constructions for coolant hoses, both are more than capable of performing reliably on any modern engine.

Our fluorosilicone lined hoses, ensure all potential issues are covered now and into the future. 

What do Viper Performance build hoses for?

• Radiators
• Water Systems
• Coolant
• Breather systems
• Intercooler Connections
• Charge Air Cooler
• and more …

Why you should order your hoses with us

Our Truck and Bus hoses are designed and built to maintain a high degree of rigidity to withstand strong, negative pressures while remaining flexible enough to cope with significant movement between air filter and engine.

From enquiry to finished delivered product, you will receive the level of service you expect from a professional company, with all of our attention focused on quality and customer satisfaction.

Contact us today for more information.

As we head into December the New Year is looming and a new race calendar is on the Horizon. Lewis Hamilton is now a six-time world champion and just one-off Michael Schumacher’s all-time record of seven titles. Mercedes successfully defended the World Constructors’ Championship, securing the title for the sixth consecutive year.

2019 has been another interesting year for F1 and I think everyone is looking forward to 2020, so here is the current line up:

We have an exciting announcement. A new product has been added to the Viper Performance inventory. This silicone hose-cutting tool is an excellent vice mounted workshop accessory. Aimed at providing an accurate, fast, safe and inexpensive way to cut non-steel reinforced silicone and rubber hose.

This bench mounted machine has the ability to cut 18 stock internal size non-steel reinforced silicone and rubber hose from diameters 1” internal diameter to 6” Internal diameter in height increments of 7.5mm, with a minimum height cut of 20mm to a maximum height cut of 127mm.

Benefits:

• A unique and intelligent design.
• Offers quick & easy set up.
• Simple & more importantly safe to use
• Change hose sizes within seconds.
• Produces an accurate clean cut.
• Long-lasting cutting blade.

Ideal for:

• workshops
• tuners
• garages
• or anyone looking for a professional-looking neat clean straight cut with no fabric fraying

If you are interested in the hose cutter then find out more information by clicking here.

We already had the biggest range of T piece hoses in the world but that won’t stop us making it bigger!

Yes, we have just added a new set of T piece sizes to the range. We have introduced 14 new sizes ranging from 8mm to 51mm.

Available in Red, Blue and Black.

Our T piece silicone hoses are ideal for:

– Connecting dump valves
– Using as a breather take off
– Using as a water take off connection

We have hose tees available, which are suitable for water, radiator, and dump valves with main body and take off options to suit many applications.

If you would like to take a look at the range please click here.

I know no one wants to hear the word Brexit ever again! But if you love driving then you really do need to pay attention to just one little part… driving in the EU.

If there is a no-deal Brexit, you will not be allowed to drive in the EU unless you have all the correct documentation.

1. Driving Licence and IDPs

The first element is pretty obvious you will need your UK driving licence to drive in an EU or EEA country. This one doesn’t really change, you need to make sure you have a full, valid driving licence before stepping behind the wheel abroad.

The additional element is that you may need one or more international driving permits (IDPs), depending on which country you’re going to or through. To find out what you need you can check the governments own guidance here.

2. Insurance

You will need to carry a motor insurance green card when driving in the EU and EEA. To get this please contact your vehicle insurance provider 1 month before you travel to get green cards for your vehicle, caravan or trailer.

3. Registration documents

If you’re taking your vehicle to the EU for less than 12 months, you should carry one of the following documents with you:

• your vehicle log book (V5C), if you have one
• a VE103 to show you’re allowed to use your hired or leased vehicle abroad

4. GB stickers and number plates

You should display a GB sticker on the rear of your vehicle. You should do so even if you currently have a number plate, which includes the GB identifier. If you do not have this in place you could receive an unwanted on the spot fine whilst driving in the EU.

So there it is. We won’t say the dreaded word again but in the event of a no deal B****t you will know what to do.

Modern cars benefit from technology, which has been honed over decades of competition. Some innovations started with race teams looking for an advantage, others originated outside of racing but proved their effectiveness on track. All these tests and tweaks make cars better.

Here are some race technologies that migrated into our cars:

All-wheel drive

Although a few road vehicles and race cars existed with four wheel drive before it, the Audi Coupe Quattro was the first with an all-wheel drive system. The Quattro was built to dominate the World Rally Championship. Engineers bet the extra traction of all-wheel drive would be advantageous on the many unpaved, and sometimes snow-covered rally stages. The Quattro proved them right, winning the championship in 1983 and 1984.

Meanwhile, the WRC embraced all-wheel drive and never looked back, paving the way for cars like the Subaru Impreza WRX and Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution. The biggest advantage of all-wheel drive systems is their superior traction but sports cars take advantage of the additional traction even on dry surfaces to achieve faster acceleration times.

Turbocharging

Turbocharging didn’t start in race cars, but Turbocharged cars didn’t make much of an impact until they went racing. This began in earnest in the 1970s, when Porsche launched its 917/10 and 917/30 Can-Am cars, and Renault brought turbo power to Formula One. It was that era of racing that paved the way for turbochargers to really go mainstream in road cars. Turbos are still used for performance, but automakers increasingly use them to downsize engines in the name of fuel economy. Turbochargers allow smaller engines to produce more power.

Semi-automatic gearboxes

Gearboxes used to be a simple choice between manual or automatic, that was before racing teams found a performance advantage in transmissions drivers which can shift themselves without a clutch pedal. Eliminating the clutch allows transmissions to shift faster, so it was only a matter of time before the technology became commonplace in both race cars and road-going sports cars.

Anti-lock brakes

Anti-lock braking systems (ABS) were used more commonly in aircraft before cars. In 1961, a variation of the system was fitted to the Ferguson P99 Formula One car but this wasn’t very successful in F1. It only won a single race, and driver Stirling Moss didn’t even use the ABS, preferring to modulate the brakes the old-fashioned way.

The Ferguson P99 was ahead of its time. Its ABS was mechanical; it would take electronics to make ABS truly practical. Today, it’s illegal to sell a new car without ABS in the U.S. However, ABS is not allowed in Formula One. It’s one of many driver aids banned in the series.

Viper Performance bring you a ready made off the shelf fuel rail allowing you to make your very own custom made fuel rail. This product is ideal for car builders, tuners or race teams.

Our top grade 6061 aluminium extruded rail has a 16.1mm bore, and is 1 meter long ready for you to cut, drill and modify to suit your application. Available in three finishes, anodised black, natural and polished which one will you choose?

Find out more here