New V8s owner needs pointing towards parts

[V8sweep]

Hi everyone , I'm a new owner to a V8s in need of a lot of love !

The chassis and suspension have had work recently but everything else needs work . I'm doing the headgasket and all other top gaskets as I have a boiling expansion tank and emulsified oil in the cap. It also has water coming out the valve cover , not sure what's up there.
I'm looking for the passenger side exhaust manifold so I can at least get it running before I start the body and interior in the spring/ summer . Anyone have one knocking about?.

Also where are the best places for :
Interior parts
Roof
Engine parts

Is it possible to change from the distributor system to a electronic ignition?

Thanks in advance

Edited by V8sweep on Sunday 7th December 20:57

[V8sweep]

Thanks for the reply , I will have a look for the chimera manifolds.

Would need a complete roof .
The wood veneer trim parts are completely destroyed , so need new items if available . Most of the switches are badly worn as well.

Engine parts would be std rebuild parts and service items.

the cars going to be pretty much stripped so the ignition should be a simple enough job .

[V8sweep]

That's great info , much appreciated.

[V8sweep]

SJS357 said:

Welcome aboard Tim

Thanks

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v8s4me said:

Contact the person who sold this

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Red-TVR-V8-S-Chassis-Fra...

I know they had a complete, newly covered roof for sale. If you get it can I have first refusal on your old one please?

Good luck.

Thanks I will message them .

I will let you know , my roof is pretty ruff the rear screen is toast!

[V8sweep]

Thanks for all the help , wil give a good head start.

On a slightly differant note, has anyone had water leaking from one of the valve covers ? The drivers side seems to leak quite a lot of coolant!

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v8s4me said:

Are you sure the leak is from the rocker covers? There are coolant piles which run in the valley and can leak from the areas where they join onto the rubber pipes. Under normal circumstances there is no way coolant can get into the space inside the rocker covers.

That's exacltly what I was thinking , the outside of the covers shows quite bad corrosion . It's comng apart so will just have a look .
I'll check and replace the pipes as there in there just incase