Whatever happened to the new chassis ideas
Discussion
esso said:
Perhaps we should start a group buy for chassis!!!
That is the way to do it, businesses can't afford to go down an expensive development path of an item to discover no one wants to buy it but if they're made aware that there's a genuine demand they may well do the development work.Dave, a rusty outrigger doesn't mean you need a whole chassis, I'm sure as with the Griff and Chim chassis you'll be able to just get the outriggers replaced and prossibly without a body lift.
I have been looking into this and have been speaking to a few companies to see if anybody wants to take it on. Have got a few plans in place and have been talking to a few specialist engineering companies.
Out of interest how many people would be interested in a chassis and of which variant? (speed 6 or v8).
Out of interest how many people would be interested in a chassis and of which variant? (speed 6 or v8).
V8 GRF said:
esso said:
Perhaps we should start a group buy for chassis!!!
Dave, a rusty outrigger doesn't mean you need a whole chassis, I'm sure as with the Griff and Chim chassis you'll be able to just get the outriggers replaced and prossibly without a body lift.
Byker28i said:
Did anyone make a rig or start producing new chassis?
A while ago I `heard` ( 
) that Grantura Engineering had all the relevant equipment to produce a new chassis. Danny was the man to speak to.http://www.readmanracing.co.uk/
M3John said:
A while ago I `heard` ( ) that Grantura Engineering had all the relevant equipment to produce a new chassis. Danny was the man to speak to.
http://www.readmanracing.co.uk/
What would be better value long-term,I wonder, a full refurb or a new chassis? What would the cost differential be? ) that Grantura Engineering had all the relevant equipment to produce a new chassis. Danny was the man to speak to.http://www.readmanracing.co.uk/
I investigated this a fair bit when I discovered my chassis had seen better days too.
There is a cerb jig knocking around in Germany (for some reason) and that TVR Power/RT Racing were looking at buying it, to produce Cerb chassis's along the lines of the Griff/Chimp offering Power do now.
But the take up of the new Griff/Chimp chassis wasn't as they had forecast. So the cerb jig purchase was up in the air.
I had word that Power weren't that interested in spending "X" thousands to buy the cerb jig, (presumably from Smolenski) transport to the UK and then spend their own money to produce test chassis's, but RT Racing were still confident that new Cerb chassis's would be available by year end 2012.
Make of that what you will.
APM can make a one off chassis for about £5k (if memory serves), but a group buy would bring that down quite a lot. I have no idea if any intellectual property rights are being transgressed here btw.
Following all that......I'll be repairing my chassis and re-powder coating, as I just cant be certain that waiting and seeing, will be the best course of action. As Tanguero put it when I opened my thread about my corroded chassis, "I've heard the same for the last few years."
If those seriously wanting a new chassis will stump up deposits to APM, then Im sure Andy will be interested.
There is a cerb jig knocking around in Germany (for some reason) and that TVR Power/RT Racing were looking at buying it, to produce Cerb chassis's along the lines of the Griff/Chimp offering Power do now.
But the take up of the new Griff/Chimp chassis wasn't as they had forecast. So the cerb jig purchase was up in the air.
I had word that Power weren't that interested in spending "X" thousands to buy the cerb jig, (presumably from Smolenski) transport to the UK and then spend their own money to produce test chassis's, but RT Racing were still confident that new Cerb chassis's would be available by year end 2012.
Make of that what you will.
APM can make a one off chassis for about £5k (if memory serves), but a group buy would bring that down quite a lot. I have no idea if any intellectual property rights are being transgressed here btw.
Following all that......I'll be repairing my chassis and re-powder coating, as I just cant be certain that waiting and seeing, will be the best course of action. As Tanguero put it when I opened my thread about my corroded chassis, "I've heard the same for the last few years."
If those seriously wanting a new chassis will stump up deposits to APM, then Im sure Andy will be interested.
Edited by djstevec on Friday 24th August 23:08
scotty_d said:
V8 GRF said:
esso said:
Perhaps we should start a group buy for chassis!!!
Dave, a rusty outrigger doesn't mean you need a whole chassis, I'm sure as with the Griff and Chim chassis you'll be able to just get the outriggers replaced and prossibly without a body lift.Tanguero said:
Re powder coating over the repairs with the body on must be interesting... 
lol you cant get to some parts to paint properly this is true.....well in my case anyway.this year has been hectic so far but once we have moved my body will be off 
...will look into new chassis if one is available...there must be more than one jig out there....and cant the jigs be adapted to suit other tvr models as there must be set measurements available.Power Performance are also distributors of original spec chassis.
Mr Cerbera said:
Power Performance are also distributors of original spec chassis.
Which chassis do you think would work best under a Cerbera? A Chim or a Griff? Tanguero said:
Mr Cerbera said:
Power Performance are also distributors of original spec chassis.
Which chassis do you think would work best under a Cerbera? A Chim or a Griff? Tanguero said:
Which chassis do you think would work best under a Cerbera? A Chim or a Griff?
They also say this though:"And to demonstrate our commitment we are currently looking to commission a new full production Cerbera jig with OEM chassis, being available by the middle of this summer. So watch this space…”
They don't say which summer mind.......
I was up at RT racing on Saturday - Richard said the Cerbera jig is "coming along". I know he's had a backlog of work this year, and lost a fabricator for a while, but he seems back on track now. He did give me an idea of the cost for a new chassis once the jig is ready - put it this way - it will be difficult to write off your existing chassis!
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