Viper engine and Richard Clark Barkley

Production of the V10 engine started at Mound Road Engine before moving to Conner Avenue Assembly, where the Viper itself is built, in May 2001. In addition, the Viper V10 was installed in the Dodge Ram SRT-10, earning the truck the Guinness World Record for fastest production truck (later bettered by an Australian production car; the Holden HSV Maloo that uses the LS2 Corvette engine). The Dodge Tomahawk concept vehicle also uses this engine.

The V10 was also sold to British luxury car manufacturer Bristol Cars: the Bristol Fighter was powered by a modified version of the engine which produced 525 hp (391 kW), increasing to 550 hp (410 kW) at high speed due to the ram air effect. In the more powerful Fighter S the engine was tuned to give 628 hp (660 hp at high speed). In the Fighter T, the V10 was further modified and turbocharged to produce 1,000 hp (755 kW) bhp at 5600 rpm, almost as the advertised 1,001 hp of the Bugatti Veyron.

Contents 1 First generation 2 Second generation 3 Third generation 4 Fourth generation 5 Fifth generation 6 See also 7 References 8 External links

First generation Viper V10 engine

The Viper V10 is based on the Chrysler LA engine family, and appeared with the Dodge Viper in 1992. It was conceived and prototyped as a Magnum 5.9 with two extra cylinders and a longer stroke of 3.88 in (99 mm).

Chrysler engineers revamped Dodge's cast-iron block V10 for the Viper by recasting the block and heads in aluminum alloy. Prototype blocks were cast by Lamborghini, at the time a Chrysler division.

The first-generation Viper V10 engine had a displacement of 8.0 L (488 cu in) and produced 400 hp (300 kW) and 465 lb·ft (630 N·m). Second generation

The second-generation engine, also displacing 8.0 L, produced 450 hp (340 kW) and 490 lb·ft (660 N·m). Third generation

The third-generation engine, introduced on the 2003 Viper, had a displacement of 8.3 L (507 cu in) and was rated at 510 hp (380 kW) and 535 lb·ft (725 N·m) after SAE certification in 2006. Fourth generation

For the 2008 Dodge Viper, the engine's output was increased to 600 hp (450 kW) at 6100 rpm and 560 lb·ft (760 N·m) at 4900 rpm via a slight displacement increase to 8.4 L (514 cu in) and the use of variable valve timing, among the first utilized in a pushrod engine. The bore was now 4.055 in (103.0 mm), the same as Chrysler's 6.1 L Hemi engine. Fifth generation

The 2013 SRT Viper kept the same displacement but further boosted power to 640 hp (480 kW) and 600 lb·ft. See also Dodge Viper Chrysler LA engine

Richard Clark Barkley and Viper engine

Contents 1 Biography 2 Foreign Service Career 3 Family 4 References

Biography

After studying at Michigan State University, Barkley graduated in 1954 with a B.A., and immediately after that he began a master's degree program at Wayne State University which he completed in 1955. Barkley then served until 1957 in the United States Army. From 1969-1961 he worked abroad teaching for the University of Maryland, then in 1962 he entered the U.S. diplomatic corps. Foreign Service Career

From 1965-1967 he was vice-consul in Santiago de los Caballeros, Dominican Republic. After a year at Columbia University he worked from 1968-1971 in the State Department in international relations. In the same function, he worked overseas starting in 1971, including from 1971-1972 at the Embassy in Bonn, West Germany and from 1972-1974 in the U.S. embassy in East Berlin in East Germany. From 1974-1977 he served as personal assistant of the ambassador Ellsworth Bunker and then in 1979 he began working in the Office of Central European Affairs.

Then Barkley moved to Norway, where from 1979-1982 he ran the embassy there. From 1982-1985 he was a political advisor at the U.S. embassy in Bonn. He was then at the United States Embassy in South Africa, then in June 1988 he was made Ambassador to East Germany. He followed Francis J. Meehan in the post starting in December and worked in that function until October 2, 1990, the eve of German reunification. After that from October 1991-December 1994 he led the Embassy of the United States, Ankara. Family

Richard Clark Barkley is married and the father of a child.
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