TVR M Series pic 4.6 V8

[XKRacer]

amcconnon said:

I have a 3900M. My car had a 3500 rover until last year, but I use the car in the TVR sprint championship, So V8 developments installed a top hat linered 3.9. Since they have done that the manifold, under cold idle knocks against the chassis. What engine mounts did you use to raise the engine. Mine has inverted SD1 mounts at the moment.Your car is stunning by the way.

We had the original mounts which were in good condition so we reused them, however I beleive they are SD1. We raised the engine by adding metal to the chassis under the mounts and got over the torque twist by adding a steady bar from the front of the cylinder head to the chassis via a additional rubber mount. This comprised of 2 ali plates with the rubber in between I will get pix if you wish the next time we drag the car out of 'moth balls', we look after the vehicle for the owner so if anyone wishes to take a look you are welcome to 'come on down'

[pies]

[Notanutter]

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Everything went nicely together with the R380 5 speed box and the Jag LSD we used did I mention the wilwood 4 pot ali calipers vented discs and fully adjustable suspension and polybush all round[/quote]

So why in heaven's name doesn't someone with more cash and more balls than me start making 5-litre proper TVR-looking M-Series updates NOW to sell at about £20K ??????

[XKRacer]

Notanutter said:

Everything went nicely together with the R380 5 speed box and the Jag LSD we used did I mention the wilwood 4 pot ali calipers vented discs and fully adjustable suspension and polybush all round

So why in heaven's name doesn't someone with more cash and more balls than me start making 5-litre proper TVR-looking M-Series updates NOW to sell at about £20K ??????
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This car wasn't cheap to do! But I wont go into the mucky details in a public forum if someone wanted a similar conversion done it wouldn't be a problem depending on how far down the line they wish to go as a guesstimate just for a engine, box, diff, and brake upgrade I would reckon around 10-15K thats using all new parts. Obviously its a body off affair so a fair amount of man hours are involved. This price can be reduced if you had recon or used parts or for instance you just brought the rolling chassis we did all the fitments and you put the body back on yourself, there are always ways and means!

[bravenrace]

Wow, very nice car! I have a couple questions if you don't mind:

What are the type and size of the wheels and tires?
Are the rear fenders flared? Kind of looks like it in the picture. If so, how was that accomplished?
Thanks,
Jim

[XKRacer]

bravenrace said:

Wow, very nice car! I have a couple questions if you don't mind:

What are the type and size of the wheels and tires?
Are the rear fenders flared? Kind of looks like it in the picture. If so, how was that accomplished?
Thanks,
Jim

The wheels are 15" minilites and we didnt touch the arches but there was some very dodgy repair work done to them when we removed all the paint and took it back to the gel coat. Looked like to us the original wheels had been rubbing and basically wore there way through so we re-laid the fibreglass and did a proper repair job.

[ash-man]

that is one good looking car..had taimar in family way back in 1988 it was essex v6..blue with a cream band..registerd first in 1979 i was 18 when first car i had to use personaly..have since had s3c and now own griff 500...something special about early classic models..still think vixens and granturas are such good looking cars..also original griff 200 s are great looking cars...nice to see them getting restored propperley and being used in classic motoring events..keep up the good work..cheers for posting pics

[bravenrace]

XKRacer said:

bravenrace said:

Wow, very nice car! I have a couple questions if you don't mind:

What are the type and size of the wheels and tires?
Are the rear fenders flared? Kind of looks like it in the picture. If so, how was that accomplished?
Thanks,
Jim

The wheels are 15" minilites and we didnt touch the arches but there was some very dodgy repair work done to them when we removed all the paint and took it back to the gel coat. Looked like to us the original wheels had been rubbing and basically wore there way through so we re-laid the fibreglass and did a proper repair job.

Do you know what size the tires are? and has the car been lowered at all?
Man, those rear wheel lips sure look flared to me. I compared them with a similar picture of mine and the didn't look the same to me. In your picture it almost looks like the tan part has been grafted on. I'm sure you know what you have, so I'm not saying I don't believe you, it just looks flared to me.
Thanks for the pictures! I've been considering painting mine a really dark grey metallic or black and using Minilites, so your pictures really help visualize that. Do you have any pictures of the rear end?
Thanks again,
Jim

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bravenrace said:

XKRacer said:

bravenrace said:

Wow, very nice car! I have a couple questions if you don't mind:

What are the type and size of the wheels and tires?
Are the rear fenders flared? Kind of looks like it in the picture. If so, how was that accomplished?
Thanks,
Jim

The wheels are 15" minilites and we didnt touch the arches but there was some very dodgy repair work done to them when we removed all the paint and took it back to the gel coat. Looked like to us the original wheels had been rubbing and basically wore there way through so we re-laid the fibreglass and did a proper repair job.

Do you know what size the tires are? and has the car been lowered at all?
Man, those rear wheel lips sure look flared to me. I compared them with a similar picture of mine and the didn't look the same to me. In your picture it almost looks like the tan part has been grafted on. I'm sure you know what you have, so I'm not saying I don't believe you, it just looks flared to me.
Thanks for the pictures! I've been considering painting mine a really dark grey metallic or black and using Minilites, so your pictures really help visualize that. Do you have any pictures of the rear end?
Thanks again,
Jim

They are flared over standard M arches. They look to be widebody arches or a widebodied car.

I found the comments over cost interesting. and fully understand the sentiment. I am currently building 3 cars and when you look at cost of parts alone you would get a very big surprise. Factor in a reasonable labour element and there is no wnder that the cars can't be produced for anything under £30k. The parts cost alone for each of my 3 ads up to approx 12k each without even looking at the sundries. Just dont tell the wife

Neil.

[bravenrace]

Wide body? Did they actually make them that way from the factory? Are the flares available to buy now?
I've curious as I never hear of that before. I am, however, a novice with these cars.

[davidy]

The SE flares are available through the likes of Exactly TVR, etc, however I don't think that image is of an SE flare, these were more boxy in shape, that one looks more rounded.

If you are only short of a little clearance you can take away some of the inside of the wheelarch lip.

If you want to retain the roundy shape, then cut the arch from 9 o'clock to 3 o'clock nand pull it outwards, then bond in the gap with new fibreglass. This actually looks very good and was on Leon'sold brown car (with 16in compomotive wheels)

If you like the boxy shape of the SE, get some replica SE arches.

Years ago I bought s/h a full SE set (arches + bonnet vent), in the end the only mod I made was with the bonnet vent, which is great at getting some of the bulkhead heatsoak out of the car. The arches just looked a load of shag and hassle, and I managed to get 9 inch wide rear rims with tyres to clear just by removing some of the inside if the wheel arch lip

davidy

[XKRacer]

bravenrace said:

XKRacer said:

bravenrace said:

Wow, very nice car! I have a couple questions if you don't mind:

What are the type and size of the wheels and tires?
Are the rear fenders flared? Kind of looks like it in the picture. If so, how was that accomplished?
Thanks,
Jim

The wheels are 15" minilites and we didnt touch the arches but there was some very dodgy repair work done to them when we removed all the paint and took it back to the gel coat. Looked like to us the original wheels had been rubbing and basically wore there way through so we re-laid the fibreglass and did a proper repair job.

Do you know what size the tires are? and has the car been lowered at all?
Man, those rear wheel lips sure look flared to me. I compared them with a similar picture of mine and the didn't look the same to me. In your picture it almost looks like the tan part has been grafted on. I'm sure you know what you have, so I'm not saying I don't believe you, it just looks flared to me.
Thanks for the pictures! I've been considering painting mine a really dark grey metallic or black and using Minilites, so your pictures really help visualize that. Do you have any pictures of the rear end?
Thanks again,
Jim

I havent got the actual tyre sizes to hand I will have to 'unwrap' the car from its permabag but I will check. The cars ride height was adjusted to suit with fully adjustable suspension (coil overs from Gaz)it does ride like a roller skate but isnt that half the fun?
With reference to the arches, having stripped this car back to its bare fibreglass I didnt see any indication of any after market tampering the arches were filled over badly but this was due to the dodgy repair made to the arches which was done with P40 which hadnt set properly and a healthy amount of filler. If everyone is adamant this isnt standard then all I can say is this was done as a special at factory because I really dont remember seeing any joins or build up of resin the gelcoat being clear made it very easy to notice?

[bravenrace]

Thanks for the information. Don't go to a lot of trouble to get the tire sizes, but if you have a chance, I'd be interested.
Who knows about the rear quarters. I do know they look really good! It's not a great picture, but here's one of my 2500M to compare. Let me know what you think.

[XKRacer]

I do see what u mean about the flares! And I must admit I have never had the black car next to another 2500M to notice, shame I didnt know earlier I could of taken molds and easily produced copies!

[bravenrace]

I would have bought a set!

[davidy]

bravenrace

My old car (pictures and wheel/tyre sizes) in this thread

www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?t=359000&f=34&h=0&p=1

davidy

[asteinha]

Hello,
very nice car.
Do anyone know someone who wants to sel his old TVR with V8 engine?
I am searching for old TVR (Vixen / "M" with V8.

Gruß from Germany
Antonio --> [e-mail]
www.tvr.at

[jellison]

Nice Job - but personally I think it shocking putting an engine in there that was never OE.