Last Stage of Tuning all done, up 11bhp & 30lb/ft

[JamieBeeston]

Had the New manifolds tested and the new Trumpet base installed.

Trumpets gave a whopping 10bhp and 11ft/lbs, works out to a puny £25 quid a horse / ft/lb defo one of the easiest, rewarding mods to do, looking at half an hour fitting time, if that (less for a pro) and there you go, car is up on both power AND torque ALL OVER the range (Will try and scan the dyno sheets in)

The manifolds, gave a few ft/lbs, smoothing out the old line, but made the car sound like an EVIL NASCAR RACER... the noise before, with just the TVR sports exhaust, was a boomy, WIDE (only way to describe it), lazy noise, it was all encompassing, and fuzzy.

NOW, its raspy, mean, focussed, rippley... (sounds like i am describing icecream ;P)


Quote from Tim

the best bit and this will sell them is the noise , what a noise ! when you drove off it was like a NASCAR ..

<------ chuffed to bits with the evil sound...

Got a new set of Leads on whilst she was in

/me off to drive her like she was built to be driven!

Thnx Tim and Mark and the chaps at Power Engineering


Started at 252bhp / 253 lb/ft
Ended at 263bhp / 283 lb/ft
Jamie

Tornado&Manifolds vs Tornado&Manifolds and Trumpets

Tornado(Blue) vs Tornado&Manifolds(Red) vs Tornado&Manifolds and Trumpets (Purple)

Tornado&Manifolds vs Tornado&Manifolds and Trumpets Full Sheet

Tornado vs Tornado&Manifolds vs Tornado&Manifolds and Trumpets Full Sheet

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[Podie]

top banana... look forward to hearing that round the lanes of sunny Billericay! (or see you at the TVRCC meet in January!

EDIT - PS: Stumpy says your car is PINK (I have an e-mail to prove it! )

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[N17 TVR]

Jamie

Where did you get this done, can you supply address / contact details.

Feel free to E-mail me via my profile if you prefer

Thanks in advance

[2 Sheds]

Cheers Jamie
And thanks for lending us your car to play with the manifolds. I think we achieved what we set out to do = make a 4.5 go like a 500 .
Lamborghini Purple !!!
Tim

[JamieBeeston]

N17 TVR said: Jamie

Where did you get this done, can you supply address / contact details.

Feel free to E-mail me via my profile if you prefer

Thanks in advance

Power Engineering with Tim '2sheds' Lamont (ACT) and Mark 'The Man' Adams

I am sure if you have any questions, they will answer them here

[ByronTVR]

Good news Jamie
Nice to hear and see how it sounds and goes , any videos or sounds?

Cheers,
ByronTVR

[N17 TVR]

Thanks Jamie, I'll give '2sheds' a call

[JamieBeeston]

only video so far is the pre work video,

will sort some new ones out soon

[clint888]

JamieBeeston said:

N17 TVR said: Jamie

Where did you get this done, can you supply address / contact details.

Feel free to E-mail me via my profile if you prefer

Thanks in advance

Power Engineering with Tim '2sheds' Lamont (ACT) and Mark 'The Man' Adams

I am sure if you have any questions, they will answer them here

Try V8 developments they are on the net and in Sprint and they are brilliant. Had uprated cam and induction fitted plus of course Mark Adams chip now the car goes like a rocket and sounds like Schuey when the lights change--reckon the figures must be (almost) what the manufacturers claim. Don't bother with carbon fibre induction kits unless you are going for a double or triple throttle--they look nice but the bhp difference is about a handful if that and ,being plastic,they will probably split somewhere down the line. V8 work with Tim.

[19560]

Tim, have you ever had any trouble with any of your carbon fibre products splitting?

[RichB]

clint888 said: Don't bother with carbon fibre induction kits unless you are going for a double or triple throttle--they look nice but the bhp difference is about a handful if that

Clint, I recently had an ACT twin-throttle carbon induction system fitted to my Griff 500 and the increase was 16 bhp and 10 lbs ft torque. But... what was significant was that the torque remained solid right up to 6,000 revs whereas before it dropped away after about 4,800 - 5,000 The result is significantly noticable especially when previously I'd have been thinking about changing-up a gear. Rich...

p.s. Tim are these the manifolds we talking about? i.e. suitable for a 5 Ltr? R...

[2 Sheds]

clint888 saidTry V8 developments they are on the net and in Sprint and they are brilliant. Had uprated cam and induction fitted plus of course Mark Adams chip now the car goes like a rocket and sounds like Schuey when the lights change--reckon the figures must be (almost) what the manufacturers claim. Don't bother with carbon fibre induction kits unless you are going for a double or triple throttle--they look nice but the bhp difference is about a handful if that and ,being plastic,they will probably split somewhere down the line. V8 work with Tim.

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The Carbon plenums are alot stronger than you think, I'll have to show you the 5lb club hammer test .The resin system used will last indefinitely, and cope with 150 degrees C,
Been making them since 1996 the first 3 were wet-lay carbon and caused problems but i think these have all been removed now.
The carbon induction will only work with a chip & remap in which case you will see more power without not much difference.
I agree V8 developments are very good, and we have a good working relationship, but a lot of the people here like Jamie don't want to touch a healthy engine, just prefer to settle for moderate gains, if you want 40+ bhp gains, engine work is the only way to go.
Cheers Tim.

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