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JR

12,722 posts

257 months

Tuesday 23rd November 2010
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Bluebottle said:
JR said:
v8sag said:
If you have a 400 and 400hc Chim, I guess there should be a 500hc Chim and Griff?
That's an easy trap to fall into. The 400 and 400HC were different models, the differences posted a few times on here, eg double valve springs. There is no 500HC model of either car; all 500 cars were HC and so TVR say no need to label them that way but some owners wanted an HC badge...
I was told that the 500HC originally came about when TVR recieved a batch of 500 heads from Rover that were over machined giving 11:1 or 12:1 compression ratio and instead of returning them they got them at a discounted price and then sold them on to us punters as HC engines. but later carried on using the HC badges when they no longer had stock of these heads.?
One of the problems with that tale is that HC stands for high lift cam; yes, I know that that should be HLC but that's TVR for you.

Mr MoJo

4,698 posts

215 months

Tuesday 23rd November 2010
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JR said:
Bluebottle said:
JR said:
v8sag said:
If you have a 400 and 400hc Chim, I guess there should be a 500hc Chim and Griff?
That's an easy trap to fall into. The 400 and 400HC were different models, the differences posted a few times on here, eg double valve springs. There is no 500HC model of either car; all 500 cars were HC and so TVR say no need to label them that way but some owners wanted an HC badge...
I was told that the 500HC originally came about when TVR recieved a batch of 500 heads from Rover that were over machined giving 11:1 or 12:1 compression ratio and instead of returning them they got them at a discounted price and then sold them on to us punters as HC engines. but later carried on using the HC badges when they no longer had stock of these heads.?
One of the problems with that tale is that HC stands for high lift cam; yes, I know that that should be HLC but that's TVR for you.
You learn something every day !! I always assumed it stood for High Compression.

rs mexico

473 posts

215 months

Saturday 11th December 2010
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Peter Wheeler use to drive a Tasmin turbo long before the fix head turbo was made.

rs mexico

473 posts

215 months

Saturday 11th December 2010
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Exhaust use to run above prop shaft which melted electric window switches at least twice a month.

JR

12,722 posts

257 months

Wednesday 22nd December 2010
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rs mexico said:
Peter Wheeler use to drive a Tasmin turbo long before the fix head turbo was made.
Was that the black one? What happened to it? Did it get converted back?

norway_triumph

40 posts

178 months

Sunday 2nd January 2011
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made a answer in the wedge-part as i'm not following this forum, but i bought a black wedge 280 turbo a couple of years back. it cane with a letter from the factory (to a previous owner) stating it was a rilling prototype/test bed

http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...

so called

Original Poster:

9,074 posts

208 months

Monday 24th January 2011
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When you say,
"tuscan 2s convert ... never a Mk1 so never a 2 convert just a convertible"

Surely the convertible is a convertible version of the Mk2 Tuscan as in being a Tuscan Mk2 Convertible.
Same body etc., OK wavey dash but some of the Mk2's (Mk3?) also had the wavey dash.

Thanks,
Tony.

V8TVR1978

895 posts

189 months

Tuesday 25th January 2011
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so called said:
When you say,
"tuscan 2s convert ... never a Mk1 so never a 2 convert just a convertible"

Surely the convertible is a convertible version of the Mk2 Tuscan as in being a Tuscan Mk2 Convertible.
Same body etc., OK wavey dash but some of the Mk2's (Mk3?) also had the wavey dash.

Thanks,
Tony.
Tony: Nice to see you are still with us and putting your 2 cents into some of the subjects that I read. I know you sent me a list of different models of cars that were built each year but like normal this unorginized Colonist misplaced it before printing it. Could you e-mail it again to me so I can misplace it once more but this time after I have printed it. What would be even better is a list of cars built per year with a break down of how many were RHD and how many were LHD. I keep wanting to send an e-mail to TVRCC asking this question but they probably have the same records that the factory had and from what I have been told to date "Not very well organized records on amount of cars built let alone how many were LHD." Any help that can be passed along to me from any PH members would be greatly appreciated. A Greek friend of ours did find a 1998 (legal to import and register in Canada in just 23 more months) but they found some Swiss cheese in the outriggers when they put the car on a hoist for me. Talk to you later.

Wayne/Sherry and the girls.


I think a Tuscan would look Real nice in my driveway if you know what I mean and that one in Fl. does have some problems of some sort as this is not the first time that they have tried to sell that car and IF they have legit registration for road use I think people all over North America would be fighting to buy it at that price...... Something fishy there.

Edited by V8TVR1978 on Tuesday 25th January 00:19

2001se

160 posts

234 months

Monday 7th February 2011
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what about the 500se wedge all done at tvr power

JR

12,722 posts

257 months

Monday 7th February 2011
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2001se said:
What about the 500se wedge all done at TVR Power
The same as the 4.3 Sags: lovely cars but as you mentioned not factory cars -
Graham said:
Im after factory models here. So sadly no V8 Sags, built in my shed hehe

Dave_M

5,486 posts

223 months

Friday 29th April 2011
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I think there were a very small number of 1300Ms. Also, would the Tina count?

theoden

53 posts

192 months

Saturday 30th April 2011
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Although you have a lot of Tasmin 280's models, are these all manual gearboxes? I saw an auto convertible (red with black hood) at the Yeovil 'Festival of Transport' show (I think) back in the early 2000's, on the TVR stand next to mine, is this an additional type for you?

The owner had a auto box due to back/leg health issues. It's the only auto TVR I've ever seen.

Met again with a Griff owner and his wife 2 years later from this show, at the Carrefour at Le Mans, small world!

grahamw48

9,944 posts

237 months

Saturday 30th April 2011
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Yes there were a few auto 280s made...and the odd 350 auto. smile

JR

12,722 posts

257 months

Saturday 30th April 2011
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grahamw48 said:
Yes there were a few auto 280s made...and the odd 350 auto. smile
Plus one 390 SE and one 450 SE (recently sold on here) but I would regard all of these as options rather than models in their own right.

grahamw48

9,944 posts

237 months

Saturday 30th April 2011
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True. smile

Roy C

4,187 posts

283 months

Friday 6th May 2011
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"200i"?
Do you mean the Tasmin 200? It was a Tasmin convertible with a 2 litre Ford "Pinto" (Cortina) engine and twin-choke Weber carb (so not "i").

Not a big seller. wink

Also S2c is missing. Not many made, but they do exist.

Edited by Roy C on Friday 6th May 11:14

ktm301p

746 posts

188 months

Monday 17th October 2011
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I did not see the Cerbera Lightweight anywhere in that list . . .

markreilly

795 posts

171 months

Monday 17th October 2011
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Bluebottle said:
I was told that the 500HC originally came about when TVR recieved a batch of 500 heads from Rover that were over machined giving 11:1 or 12:1 compression ratio and instead of returning them they got them at a discounted price and then sold them on to us punters as HC engines. but later carried on using the HC badges when they no longer had stock of these heads.?
Another Mythish,i visited TVR POWER with a mates 289 Cobra replica to price up an engine in the 90's, mid wedge era anyway and i remember the engine builder saying that all the engines they got from Rover were rejects from the factory for various reasons,he pointed to one and said,take that one for example,came the whole way down the assembly line and it wasn't until they would have fired it up to drive it off that they found the engine wouldn't start,when he opened it up at Power he found the pistons had never been fitted ! Fair to assume that TVR/Power were getting the engines at heavily discounted prices as rejects from Rover

RichB

51,434 posts

283 months

Sunday 13th November 2011
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Being pedantic Griffiths prior to the Griffith 500 were known as TVR Griffith 4.0, 4.3 etc. The 500 was the first one badged with the capacity in the way the Wedges were.

V8 GRF

7,294 posts

209 months

Monday 25th February 2013
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This one will run and run as there's no definite number for anything other than really short production stuff like the Typhon and T440.

Also just updated the Griffith SE numbers to the actual production number suggested to me by an ex-worker to illustrate the point, even cars with numbers aren't as they seem confused