Chimaera 500 power

[davey707]

Have been reading the debate on the Chimmy 500 power output with interest - I used to have a 400 but had to sell and am now going to get another TVR. Cerberas are probably a little too expensive to run for me and Tuscans a little too 'dodgy' at times, so a Chim500 would be ideal. Has anyone had thiers on a rolling road or had a definitive indication of power output?
If they are in the 250 - 300bhp range, can they be tuned in any way?
Of course maybe I'm just being greedy and it'll be fast enough anyway!
As they say 'Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely'

[shpub]

Power will be around 250-275. Yes they can be tuned to give more but the costs will make running a Cerbera seem very attractive. Need to think of brake and suspension upgrades as well. Whole chapter on this in the bible.

Even so a 500 will still rearrange your internal organs...

Steve
www.tvrbooks.co.uk

[RichB]

There are a few P'Headers in the Griffith section who have done mod's to our cars to varying degrees, take a look at www.greenbear.org.uk to get an idea of what I’ve done, "Apache" (Pete) has also gone down the tuning route. As Steve says the debate about bhp/torque will run and run, but pleasingly TVR's performance figures are more accurate, with the fastest Griff 500 at a TVRCC event posting a 0-100 time of around 12 secs. which is pretty respectable! Approximatly I spent £1,600 on the brakes, £1,100 on the wheels & tyres, £750 on the cam change, and say £1,500 on the induction, chip and rolling road, so say £5k - and that’s only so far because it's like a bug and next I want to upgrade the dampers for adjustable ones and remove the pre-cats. Performance is now pretty gut-wrenching and it pull-and-pulls most satisfactorily right through to 6k revs. But remember the 500 is a pretty amazing as is, and there are still few other cars as fast (mainly newer TVRs ) so go test a few and see what you think. Rich...