Tuesday 4th May 2010

Racing Team Creates 7.0-litre V8 TVR Sagaris

Topcats Racing drops LS7 V8 into Sagaris road car

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Waiting patiently to get your hands on one of Mr Smolenski's planned V8 TVRs is not the only way to get hold of a Corvette-powered Trevor, it seems. Buckinghamshire-based Topcats Racing is currently in the process of slotting a 7.0-litre LS7 GM V8 beneath the bonnet of a TVR Sagaris.

Topcats - which runs an LS7-engined Mosler MT900 in the Britcar endurance series - have already dropped Corvette mills into several race cars, and one road car - a Cerbera - which is now running around powered by an LS3 V8.

The insertion of the LS7 into the Sag is hardly a plug-and-play affair, though. Topcats has created a bespoke exhaust system and, among other things (all of which you can read about in more detail on the Topcats website), has had to relocate the air-con motor, alternator and starter motor.

When it's finished, the LS7 Sagaris should pump out well over 550bhp. We should find out soon - as you read this the engine will have been fitted, and the first fire-up will be a matter of days away.

Best of all, Topcats and proud V8 Sagaris owner Paul Black have agreed to let PH take the car for a spin once it's ready. Awfully decent of them, really...

[BUG4LIFE]

Nice...the Sagaris is one of my fav styled cars of all time, I want

[vintageracer01]

YEP!

Now we are talking!

[Daggsy]

Who will be the first to impress? N.S. or the British boys at Topcats? As a TVR owner since 1981 I can't understand why TVR can't be British based. Blackpool may be no more, but with U.K. and /or E.U. financial support surely a manufacturing base should be established in U.K. What a way for a 'new government' to announce a new manufacturing enterprise and the creation of new jobs +R&D etc. If Ant & Deck are publisising Sags on there new HD advert who knows what could happen!!

[M400 NBL]

Is there anyone who doesn't love the look of the Sag?

[XxSunSurfxX]

Wet Dreams Come True.....!!!

Hope they do a LS9 as well though I feel sorry for rear tyres already....

[900T-R]

Yes, please.

[Jigsjigz]

:\ i like it but i just hope the build quality of these cars goes up... they already had the power... just door handles and bits would fall off... or the car would blow up.

[m0ssy]

Jigsjigz said:

:\ i like it but i just hope the build quality of these cars goes up... they already had the power... just door handles and bits would fall off... or the car would blow up.

JC couldn't have said it different....

What doorhandles?

[madbadger]

Nice one

Jigsjigz said:

:\ i like it but i just hope the build quality of these cars goes up... they already had the power... just door handles and bits would fall off... or the car would blow up.

Yeah. I hate it every time mine falls apart. In fact it blew up seven times only this morning.

[scotty_d]

Jigsjigz said:

:\ i like it but i just hope the build quality of these cars goes up... they already had the power... just door handles and bits would fall off... or the car would blow up.

You will be looking for long time for those door handles then eh? Damn thats why most have none they all fell off


Very nice machine some video and more pics please.

[Mr MoJo]

Jigsjigz said:

:\ i like it but i just hope the build quality of these cars goes up... they already had the power... just door handles and bits would fall off... or the car would blow up.

Did yours blow up, or did your door handles fall off, no wait, I know it was a bloke down the pub who told you.

eta This puts the Sag on my must have list, it was a near perfect car but missing two things for me personally. Cylinders !! (not that a V8 Sag hasn't been possible before.) Love it.

Edited by Mr MoJo on Tuesday 4th May 09:25

[Don1]

Jigsjigz said:

:\ i like it but i just hope the build quality of these cars goes up... they already had the power... just door handles and bits would fall off... or the car would blow up.

You Sir, are a fool.



So Paul, what have you done with the S6 engine? Off to a good home? And are you looking at any extra braking etc, like the Raceproved AP setup?

[lazyitus]

M400 NBL said:

Is there anyone who doesn't love the look of the Sag?

Yeah, my Dad !

I think his sight is deteriorating as he gets older.

[Zippee]

Jigsjigz said:

:\ i like it but i just hope the build quality of these cars goes up... they already had the power... just door handles and bits would fall off... or the car would blow up.

You've obviously owned a lot of TVRs to have come to that conclusion!

Strange how it's usually the people who've never even been in one that come out with the ill-informed crap about build and reliability!

[WTFWT]

M400 NBL said:

Is there anyone who doesn't love the look of the Sag?

Not a fan of the looks personally. Think the cleaner lines of the T350 are preferable...

[teamHOLDENracing]

To be fair Racesport, a TVR race team down in Exeter, got there first. They built 2 of these last year from new, unfinished and unregistered cars from TVR. Those cars have been undergoing extensive testing since.

Topcats are doing a fine job with customer cars though

[GTRene]

lovely to see this conversions with a proper engine, lots hp for a relative small price of the engine.
TVR and V8 are one me thinks. TV8R

[Big Ashy]

Want one, enough said! What should of been dropped in The Sag in the 1st place.

[brutepower]

This might possibly be number 1 on my dream car list. Awesome.

[turbo-ww]

Zippee said:

Jigsjigz said:

:\ i like it but i just hope the build quality of these cars goes up... they already had the power... just door handles and bits would fall off... or the car would blow up.

You've obviously owned a lot of TVRs to have come to that conclusion!

Strange how it's usually the people who've never even been in one that come out with the ill-informed crap about build and reliability!

But you can see how the reputation is hard to shake off - Just ask Lancia about rust. They haven't had a problem with rust for years.