What colour????

What colour????

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davelittlewood

306 posts

132 months

Sunday 20th July 2014
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When I find that spare couple of grand behind the sofa I'm going for candy apple red with a black roof and back interior

Very much a pipe dream though

PJ57

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245 posts

130 months

Sunday 20th July 2014
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QBee said:
I will have a look at mine tomorrow re the appearance of the offset. The 225/50 16 Tyres you took off the fronts will be perfect for the Imola rears - standard factory size. Fronts for the Imolas was 205/55 15 on Chims....and that will look correct. Given your catching issues, I wouldn't go too wide on the front.

215/40 16 is too small for fronts - I run 215/40 17s on mine on the road, and 215/45 17s on track.

Offset will be stamped inside the wheels, prefixed maybe with ET. You need this for the advert, together with the 4x108 stud pattern and the diameter of the centre hole.
Thanks for all the info. I picked up the Imolas this morning with pretty dead R888's on, running 225/50/15's on the front and 225/50/16's on the rear. To be fair, the 225's on the front do look a little too wide for the rims, but all the tyres are completely buggered, so will need new ones all round.

Stupidly I've sold the 225/50/16's on ebay without thinking I would go to stock rim sizes...DOH!!!
Will need to do some shopping for the best road tyres, the R888's look awesome, but think they will be wasted on a road machine.
Would go with Federal RSR's if I could as they are awesome tyres, but don't do them in the correct sizes sadly frown

Thanks for the stud pattern sizes, will make selling the wheels to fund new tyres much easier. smile

PJ57

Original Poster:

245 posts

130 months

Sunday 20th July 2014
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davelittlewood said:
When I find that spare couple of grand behind the sofa I'm going for candy apple red with a black roof and back interior

Very much a pipe dream though
Nice!! Keep dreaming, one day it may well happensmile I dreamt of owning a Chimaera for years, even bought the Bible a few years back (Sad I know), and hey, I now have an awesome vehicle to go with the bookbiggrin

QBee

20,905 posts

143 months

Sunday 20th July 2014
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R888s are squarer shouldered than standard road tyres. My 215/45 17 R888 fronts are 15mm wider than my same size Bridgestones. Hence why they look so wide. If the R888s still have 2mm of tread on them stick them on EBay. You might be surprised......

I run Federal 595 RS-Rs on the road on my car. Give a lovely comfortable ride, deal with moderate amounts of wet, yet give track day levels of grip. I did the entire TVRCC track day on them and overtook a Cerbera 4.5 on R888s several times.

Beware - there are other variants of Federal 595. You need the RS-R.

PJ57

Original Poster:

245 posts

130 months

Sunday 20th July 2014
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QBee said:
R888s are squarer shouldered than standard road tyres. My 215/45 17 R888 fronts are 15mm wider than my same size Bridgestones. Hence why they look so wide. If the R888s still have 2mm of tread on them stick them on EBay. You might be surprised......

I run Federal 595 RS-Rs on the road on my car. Give a lovely comfortable ride, deal with moderate amounts of wet, yet give track day levels of grip. I did the entire TVRCC track day on them and overtook a Cerbera 4.5 on R888s several times.

Beware - there are other variants of Federal 595. You need the RS-R.
Thanks Qbee, the R888's do look massive. Unfortunately they are completely knackered, and pretty much bald. The previous owner definitely got their use out of them smile

I love the 595RSR's, had them on my 440bhp RX7 and they put the power down phenomenally with great ride comfort considering the type of tyre.
Would definitely get them for the chim, but they don't do them in 225/50/16 sadly.frown the fronts on 205/50/15 are fine though
Strange as I thought the rear sizes were far more popular

QBee

20,905 posts

143 months

Sunday 20th July 2014
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You need 205/55 15 for the front. Please be careful with wheel and tyre size selection. It affects handling.
Email me if you want a chat on the phone about it, and I will explain the details to you with pleasure.

PJ57

Original Poster:

245 posts

130 months

Sunday 20th July 2014
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QBee said:
You need 205/55 15 for the front. Please be careful with wheel and tyre size selection. It affects handling.
Email me if you want a chat on the phone about it, and I will explain the details to you with pleasure.
Thanks, that was quick.

Oops, my mistake, although there seems some debate as to wider tyres on the front for cars with power steering??

Just going to stick to basics and go with your advice. Just want to get the car sorted and enjoy biggrin Hope to get them sorted next week and put some miles on it, although it's back to Elmwood on Thurs to get the service finishedsmile

Many thanks for all your advice, hugely appreciated



V8 GRF

7,294 posts

209 months

Sunday 20th July 2014
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If you have PAS then you can go to 225/50 on the front

QBee

20,905 posts

143 months

Sunday 20th July 2014
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225/50 15 would give you the same rolling diameter as 205/55 15. Just slightly wider.

Any slight catching issues with wider tyres can often be resolved by adjusting ride height slightly.

My strong feeling is that you can over-tyre TVRs, and can confirm that mine, on 215/40 17 &. 215/45 17 Federals handles really wel, both on road and trackl. The 215/40 17 fronts are 2mm smaller in diameter than the 225/50 15, ie to all intents and purposes identical. I have to run 17 inch wheels to allow space for my brakes.

FlipFlopGriff

7,144 posts

246 months

Sunday 20th July 2014
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225/50/16 were the pre cat Griff standard size so you should be fine with these.
FFG

Johnniem

2,660 posts

222 months

Monday 21st July 2014
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PJ57 said:
Hi all, after removing the dodgy wrap on the bonnet of my Chimaera, despite being super careful and using a heat gun, I still managed to remove half of the lacquer in the processfrown I'm getting v-expensive quotes to put the bonnet right due to the cost of paint and there's a very small chance that the new paint will match, I think saving for a full re-spray if the way forward.

Anyway, whilst looking at colours, I was wondering if returning the car to it's original colour (Halcyon Blue) would have any bearing on the cars overall value?

It's currently a flip colour as below


Was thinking of this....Viper Blue


Or is it worth more to repaint in the original Halcyon Blue (which I believe was a limited run of Chimaera's painted in this...or am I wrong??)



Any thoughts greatly appreciatedbiggrin
A close mate of mine owns a 450 Chim with S69 APA as the reg no! Spooky!

PJ57

Original Poster:

245 posts

130 months

Tuesday 22nd July 2014
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QBee said:
225/50 15 would give you the same rolling diameter as 205/55 15. Just slightly wider.

Any slight catching issues with wider tyres can often be resolved by adjusting ride height slightly.

My strong feeling is that you can over-tyre TVRs, and can confirm that mine, on 215/40 17 &. 215/45 17 Federals handles really wel, both on road and trackl. The 215/40 17 fronts are 2mm smaller in diameter than the 225/50 15, ie to all intents and purposes identical. I have to run 17 inch wheels to allow space for my brakes.
Thanks, will go with the Toyo's, although I will probably go 205/55/15 on the front as its nearly £30 more per tyre for the 225/50/15's for some reason. and £20 more for each 225/50/16's????

LivingTheDream

1,753 posts

178 months

Tuesday 22nd July 2014
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I believe mine is GTS Viper blue - stunning in the sunshine.....


LivingTheDream

1,753 posts

178 months

Tuesday 22nd July 2014
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I believe mine is GTS Viper blue - stunning in the sunshine.....


Johnny 89

824 posts

151 months

Wednesday 23rd July 2014
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My favourite TVR colour has always been Halcyon Yellow. It gives almost a matt yellow effect (not quite but the best way I can describe it)

The Macau yellow of my car isn't quite the same.

PJ57

Original Poster:

245 posts

130 months

Thursday 24th July 2014
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LivingTheDream said:
I believe mine is GTS Viper blue - stunning in the sunshine.....

Oh dear, just when I thought I'd made my mind up with the original colour then this pops uplaugh
That is rather lovely I have to say...Thinking mine would look bloody awesome in this colour too. Back to the drawing boardconfusedconfusedlaugh Luckily I've got loads of time to choose as the chim's back to Elmwood for a full 12k service and a couple of investigation bits before I go off and buy the wrong parts wink

I need to get out and see more cars in the flesh before making my decision....escaping from work seem the problem at the moment smile

PJ57

Original Poster:

245 posts

130 months

Thursday 24th July 2014
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Johnny 89 said:
My favourite TVR colour has always been Halcyon Yellow. It gives almost a matt yellow effect (not quite but the best way I can describe it)

The Macau yellow of my car isn't quite the same.
Haven't seen it but will keep an eye out. Sounds intriguing


PJ57

Original Poster:

245 posts

130 months

Thursday 24th July 2014
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Thanks for all your help with the tyre dilemma, got my act together and went with the 205's on the front in the end. For some reason the 225/50/15's were massively more expensive and took your advice about trying to over-tyre the car. Also though 225's on the front on a narrower rim would look a little odd compared to the same width rear on a bigger rim.
Went with the Toyo Proxes T1-R's, so hopefully a good choice.

Got a decent price on Camskill too, to my surprise, cheaper then Mytyres who I normally use. biggrin

Johnny 89

824 posts

151 months

Thursday 24th July 2014
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On the colour topic again, does anyone know how I can find a paint code for my Chim? It's described in the owners manual as "Macau Yellow" which doesn't appear on this list:

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

I'm just trying to get a little bit mixed to do a small job on the front indicator area. Thanks.

s p a c e m a n

10,752 posts

147 months

Thursday 24th July 2014
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Johnny, I would recommend just finding a decent localish paint manufactures if you want to patch bits up. I've got one near me who walks out to look at the car and can match a colour on the first go, we think he's a wizard. The other two blokes in the shop have to go out and check a couple of times before they're happy with the match, they hate him hehe