Twin Plenum Vitesse restoration

[zed4]

Nice one, very respectable! Shame I can't listen to the vid at work...

[LordFlathead]

Great thread and history. You don't see many Vitesses around these days and certainly not like this

[LordGrover]

278bhp? That's the more than/similar to the TVR 4.0 litre and up RV8 variants and they're supposed to be heavily breathed upon.
Awesome result!

[Usget]

I can't think of anything I'd change about this car. Absolutely love it.

[Duke Thrust]

My car is in the August edition of Retro Cars, very pleased with the feature.

Couple of pics:

[FWDRacer]

Oh Yes

[vinnie01]

A M G said:

Not that you need inspiration, but
(it's in there somewhere...)


Keep it going and don't forget some pics!

those Old G-Wagens are cool

[V88Dicky]

That Sir, is fking awesome!

I'm struggling to think of a better looking mainstream production saloon from the 70's / 80's, and yours is one of the very best.

Well done.

[ChocolateFrog]

Great read start to finish.

The car is a credit to you.

[Hooli]

Duke Thrust said:

My car is in the August edition of Retro Cars, very pleased with the feature.

Couple of pics:

She is a beauty

[K 5ive]

Very nice! Well done on the feature. I had my 4.6 SD1 also featured in the second issue of the re-launched Retro back in 2008.

[OllieC]

I really enjoyed reading this thread, and it really hasn't helped my overwhelming desire to own a SD1 Vitesse at some stage !

it's a proper credit to you

[MarkwG]

K 5ive said:

Very nice! Well done on the feature. I had my 4.6 SD1 also featured in the second issue of the re-launched Retro back in 2008.

Read both, lovely cars, congratulations & well done!

[B'stard Child]

K 5ive said:

Very nice! Well done on the feature.

I started to catch up with this thread and thought of you Julian

K 5ive said:

I had my 4.6 SD1 also featured in the second issue of the re-launched Retro back in 2008.

That was bloody quick as well - fond memories of a day at Santa pod

[K 5ive]

B'stard Child said:

K 5ive said:

Very nice! Well done on the feature.

I started to catch up with this thread and thought of you Julian

K 5ive said:

I had my 4.6 SD1 also featured in the second issue of the re-launched Retro back in 2008.

That was bloody quick as well - fond memories of a day at Santa pod

Hello chap! Me too. Been getting an SD1 type itch of late that needs to be scratched. However it can really only be cured by finding my old car which has gone off the Radar since I had to sell it back in September 2008.

[B'stard Child]

K 5ive said:

B'stard Child said:

K 5ive said:

Very nice! Well done on the feature.

I started to catch up with this thread and thought of you Julian

K 5ive said:

I had my 4.6 SD1 also featured in the second issue of the re-launched Retro back in 2008.

That was bloody quick as well - fond memories of a day at Santa pod

Hello chap! Me too. Been getting an SD1 type itch of late that needs to be scratched. However it can really only be cured by finding my old car which has gone off the Radar since I had to sell it back in September 2008.

It was a cracking day - memories hey I hate getting beat but on that day I'll let it go

[joesnow]

Looks ace DT.
I read the Retro Cars article today, top work!

[slippery]

Great work!

[Brummmie]

I have had 16 of these go through my hands, 4 of them were twin plenums, and had all the colours, but black was my favourite, one of the black ones had the reg B666 DOM, i should've kept that one...

[Duke Thrust]

Will do a proper update soon, in short I've managed to get hold of one of the seven Rovercraft twin turbo 4.5 engines. A whole load of bespoke parts including inlet and exhaust manifolds, Motec ECU, JE pistons & rods and a whole load of other nice bits.

Will have to use a TVR spec Tremec T5 and modified Costworth tail shaft, custom prop to the Quaife LSD.