Racing TVR's - Cosworth Turbo S

[HarryW]

Have to say have always loved the Turbo Cosworth powered S . 500bhp touring car sourced Cossie engine; F1 sourced brakes, suspension and clutch; 810 Kgs; Hewland F1 box on the rear axle. First race in Macau stared 14th and won.
Any one know what its up to now .

O-60mph = 3.5 secs
0-100mph = 7.2secs
180mph plus

I can see where Peter H got the idea for the GreenV8S front spoiler at Zolder now
Any one else have any other specials to name/show TVR's at their best .
Discuss

Harry

Thanks to shpub for the details and Ted for the photos


>>> Edited by HarryW on Tuesday 8th July 20:29

[roop]

Chris Schirle developed the car while he was at TVR. The car had a £20'000 Terry Hoyle built Ford Cosworth motor good for 520bhp, but it ran just over 400bhp for reliability. The car had an odd wheel size that meant the only tyres that would fit were designed for tarmac rally stages, so it was never as quick as it could have been.

While out in Macau in '87 for the "Gentleman's Racers Club TVR Challenge", the propshaft dislocated during practice, so the car started at the back of the grid. After just a few laps, it was leading and won comfortably ahead of the 420SEAC of Steve Cole. I have the race on video tape and also footage on my camcorder tapes.

The car campaigned in Modsports in 1988 and faired well, shedding it's orange Diadora livery from Macau in favour of advertising for the forthcoming 1989 TVR Tuscan Challenge.

I have lots of video footage of this car in action. Sounded great, spat massive flames on the overrun and was a bit of a handful by all accounts.

[roop]

Here's a couple more pics... :

[HarryW]

Excellent info roop, wonder if you could get those videos hosted somewhere (luca ), would love to have copy.

Harry

[roop]

Hi Harry,

Seeing as I work for an ISP, webspace isn't really an issue Will see what I can do. Need to capture them first. The camcorder stuff is on 8mm tape and my 8mm cam died years ago. Anyone in Gloucestershire wanna lend me their Video 8 for a few days...?

My dad is bound to have loads more at his place, will ask him next time I'm home...

Roop

[2 sheds]

We have a lot to thank Chris Shirle for, he developed the SEAC as well as building the 660 SEAC,
Great posting Harry
Tim

[Sparks]

roop said:

Hi Harry, ............ The camcorder stuff is on 8mm tape and my 8mm cam died years ago. Anyone in Gloucestershire wanna lend me their Video 8 for a few days...? Roop

Not In your area (Leicester), in fact not in the country at the moment, but I have a D8 sony, that will play/convert to digital.

If you can't get it done, let me know, we can try and sort something out.

Sparks

[rev-erend]

I wonder what Chris Shirle is up to these days...

[roop]

Hi Sparks,

Thanks for the offer. Claire's dad has a Video8 that we have borrowed before, I'm sure he won't mind me using it a few days. It's just if there was anyone 'round the corner'.

Cheers,

Roop

Sparks said:

roop said: Hi Harry, ............ The camcorder stuff is on 8mm tape and my 8mm cam died years ago. Anyone in Gloucestershire wanna lend me their Video 8 for a few days...? Roop Not In your area (Leicester), in fact not in the country at the moment, but I have a D8 sony, that will play/convert to digital. If you can't get it done, let me know, we can try and sort something out. Sparks

[roop]

Okay guys, here's the movie. I captured it last night.

Not great quality capture, but the source was apalling...!

http://movies.fastasfunk.co.uk/TVR_Macau_340.wmv

Best to Right Click and 'Save Target As' as it's over 70MB and it won't cane the crap out of my server...!

Enjoy...!

Roop

[olly]

Thats BRILLIANT roop !

12mins 43secs in it all starts getting interesting when the S overtakes the 420...

[d_drinks]

Roop, top fella with the joys of broadband talk me about 4mins to download. I love the street track, can't belive that you got all 28min of the race though !!

[Gaffer]

The rest of the videos are of John, Steve and the rest of the gang shopping.

Roop was nearly in tears when he saw the toyshops full of NIB Tamiyas, 959's, Falcons etc

Claire

[roop]

Heh heh, glad you enjoyed it. 70MB - Aah, the benefits of WMV compression. The source AVI was over 7MB/s and in total was over 12GB...!

Was a good race, unfortunately the tape Kevin gave my dad out there was a crap copy. It hasn't deteriorated with age, it was rubbish to start with.

All that was from Kevin and his mate's video (Kevin drove the 3rd place 911 Turbo). My Camcorder stuff is yet to come, but that was the best footage, especially the stuff he nicked from the local TV station...!

Roop

[HarryW]

Cheers for that roop , just downloading now, let you know when I've watched it .

Harry

[HarryW]

Had a chance to view it now the kids are off the machine, what can I say, excellent and a piece of automotive history ,that I now have a copy of.
Loved the way the SEAC, woken up by being overtaken, hung onto the back of the S afterwards .
They both made, what I assume to be, the 911 Turbos et al look pedestrian .
Had to laugh/smile to myself with neither the S or SEAC dare tuning their lights on (incase it induced a engine cut out I assume ) and the SEAC with one brake light brighter than the other, nothing changes
Again cheers

Harry

[kjr]

OK,

after 2 attempts, on a 56k dial up connection, where the first attempt got to 60+MB I finally got the file downloaded but cannot get it to play.

I am running Windows 98, with Windows Media player Version 9.00.00.2980.

When I try to run the file I get a dialog box saying "Windows Media Player cannot play the file because it is either damaged or corrupt."

The downloaded file is 72,275KB.

Anyone able to offer ant help ?

KJR

[roop]

Hmm, XP shows me the file as 70.2MB so it's about right. I don't think WMV's are too bothered about a correct file footer or whatever the opposite of the header is called. Tried doing Help -> Check for Player Upgrades in Media Player...?

Roop

kjr said:

OK, after 2 attempts, on a 56k dial up connection, where the first attempt got to 60+MB I finally got the file downloaded but cannot get it to play. I am running Windows 98, with Windows Media player Version 9.00.00.2980. When I try to run the file I get a dialog box saying "Windows Media Player cannot play the file because it is either damaged or corrupt." The downloaded file is 72,275KB. Anyone able to offer ant help ? KJR

[kjr]

Roop,

re the checking the update - that was the first thing I tried.

PS. Sorry, forgot to say in my last post, thanks for taking the time to post this large file.

KJR

[roop]

No probs KJR, You're most welcome. Did you get it to work in the end...?

R

kjr said:

Roop, re the checking the update - that was the first thing I tried. PS. Sorry, forgot to say in my last post, thanks for taking the time to post this large file. KJR