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Get rid of the daft boeing wing and the fact it needs a respray.
Bad Points (which I'll be working on once the weather improves) :
Scuffed area on passenger front wing.
Scratches on pannel between boot and rear window.
Scratches on area where number plate would be.
CF boot lid and mirrors needs re-lacquering.
Crack near latch on CF bonnet.
Road rash on front lip.
Bad Points (which I'll be working on once the weather improves) :
Scuffed area on passenger front wing.
Scratches on pannel between boot and rear window.
Scratches on area where number plate would be.
CF boot lid and mirrors needs re-lacquering.
Crack near latch on CF bonnet.
Road rash on front lip.
wasnt commenting on performance, Just dont get TVR's. They are marmite
One of them there TVRs was at the Surrey RR day yesterday.
Sounded imense when it pulled up, was rattling everything as it idled away, sounded like pure thunder.
Then he ran it up, and it posted a MASSIVE 200 bhp - good ol' Rover V8s.
Err...I'll have an S2000 please.
Sounded imense when it pulled up, was rattling everything as it idled away, sounded like pure thunder.
Then he ran it up, and it posted a MASSIVE 200 bhp - good ol' Rover V8s.
Err...I'll have an S2000 please.
LMAO
That's about right for a 400, circa 200ftlbs of torque to go with it usualy.
Thing is they weigh in at 1060KG's, if you dump the spare wheel and take the roof off it drops to 1030KGs. An S2000 weighs in at 1250 - 1300 depending on spec, hence even the most base spec Chim is 10bhp up in power to weight terms over an S2000 and thats before you look at torque.
The 450 is IMHO the best one to go for, the 500's are bloody quick and tend to make 275 - 280bhp but are just have too much torque, you spend forever with opposite lock wound on.
TVR's are very much marmite - you either get them or you don't but for sideways fun they take a lot of beating and my old 400 (making circa 240bhp) was a right hoot!
Cheers
M
I know they're light, and masses of fun...but for me the tales of owenership woe and expense, compared to the (almost) bulletproof reliability of the S2000 let's them down.
240bhp in just over a ton would be hard to resist though!
8 year old RV8 TVR's are more reliable than brand new Mondeos in my experience. I ran both side by side whilst putting more miles on the TVR. At one point I was using the Tiv to chase development cars around BPG.
Chims and Grifs are so simple you can take them apart with a 13mm spanner and a hammer and the RV8 Range Rover lump is fairly bomb proof, mine ran with very little in the way of coolant for 150 miles at one point and shrugged it off. Get a late serpentine RV8 powered car with the T5 box and you'll have to try very hard to make it stop working. Especialy as by now proper owners will have had a modern spec wiring loom thrown onto them which was the main reliability hurter on the early cars.
It all went horribly wrong for TVR when they started packing the cars with trick electronics (i.e. the the Tuscan etc.) and stuck their own engines in the car. This has tarnished all Tivs with the same brush.
Of course the build quality isn't up to that of an S2000 but a good Grif or Chim will match em for actualy getting you to work. They've also got a massive boot and huge storage behind the seats. Also the rear bulkhead between boot and interior is perfect for chopping some mad subbage into (possibly the only car where its allowed and encouraged) and a noisy Chim, popping flames and throwing D&B out makes daily mail readers abd lib dems spontaineously combust........ sufficent reason along IMHO.
Oh and they just look 'right' with a specs avoiding no front plate setup - to the point where in 20K miles I never got pulled for having no front plate.
Modern TVR's from the Tuscan up do nothing for me. A Chim or a Griff though - happy days. They aren't the fastest things in the world but as a package they work so well - just a good, honest, noisey sports car!
My old one:
Chianti Starmist (very deep purple with a mild flip) with sand leather interior and carbon fibre trim.
Also the beast that is the Citroen Xantia (which I still have) and my Abbott Racing R5 Saab (317bhp) in the background. God the wages in British motorsport have gone downhill ;-)
Cheers
M
