RE: PH Carpool: TVR Tuscan 2 LS7

[Troubleatmill]

RoverP6B said:

Yeah, I'm sure TVR didn't make it as good as it could have been, but my point is, there are enough people around (even excluding Melling) who seem to have largely fixed the straight six, which is an infinitely more special engine than any Chev small-block...

I'm not sure a hand build engine with some titanium internals designed to win Le Mans is ordinary

[R11ysf]

I love this car and the LS7, but the one thing that often gets overlooked by those who've never driven a Speed Six engine is that it is incredibly easy to drive. If you just want to use it as a daily then it hasn't got the brutal power delivery of a AJP8 Cerbera, the S6 just tickles along until you provoke it and gets the revs up the top end.

It may have had a difficult birth, but it is truly a great engine.

[anonymous-user]

RoverP6B said:

the straight six, which is an infinitely more special engine than any Chev small-block...

Special as in less reliable/well engineered and makes less power? What a load of rubbish! Before TVR started making their own, frankly ste engines, they used Ford and Buick/Rover. The LSx engines are superb being, small, light, reliable and powerful. A 500+ HP in such a light chassis must be great.

[Don1]

This is the Al Melling Tuscan (couldn't figure out how to embed the pics - pics not mine either):

[Cockey]

Don1 said:

This is the Al Melling Tuscan (couldn't figure out how to embed the pics - pics not mine either):

I thought I'd seen that Tuscan - and now I know I have because that's me on the left looking rather bemused

[RoverP6B]

Troubleatmill said:

I'm not sure a hand build engine with some titanium internals designed to win Le Mans is ordinary

I know the 7 is the most special of all the LS range, but at the end of the day, it's still just a small-block Chevy and sounds like it too...

wormus said:

Special as in less reliable/well engineered and makes less power? What a load of rubbish! Before TVR started making their own, frankly ste engines, they used Ford and Buick/Rover. The LSx engines are superb being, small, light, reliable and powerful. A 500+ HP in such a light chassis must be great.

It's called character, something which cannot be quantified in numbers. TVRs don't need more power anyway - they're quite capable of trying to kill you all the time without it. I know the Speed Six was unreliable to start with, but it does seem various people have comprehensively fixed it. I know about the Rover V8 (great motor, loved it in my P6) and also the LS series, which are fine engines, but the howl of the Speed Six is so much more spine-tingling than the idiotic rumble of a V8...