V8s trailing arms

[DamianS3]

Hello

Anyone have a pair of V8s trailing arms for sale? Or know who could make some ?

Thanks

Damian

[DamianS3]

Thanks folks I will try Glen for a laugh and report back, unless they are mint they may end up going to Adrian anyways ?

Will report back on what Glen says they are worth

Damian

[DamianS3]

Thanks folks some interesting discussion.

Alloy trailing arms mmm..

To many so called specialists seem to play on the fact they are not local and make it as hard as possible to redress while knowing you need the car on the road.

There is on total rip off merchant trimmer in Blackpool who now just hangs up when I ring him from my mobile.. btw it's not DC they are very good..

Thanks

Damian

[DamianS3]

As JW said I've dropped a mail to TVR parts, hopefully it's just a matter of time and demand.

Thanks

Damian

[DamianS3]

jwoffshore said:

Fair enough Joe

Back to Damian's query, the V8 arms compared to V6 arms have the same damper bracket location. It's only the width at the wheel hub mounting face that differs. Therefore the rear dampers and resulting ride height should be the same.

Jonathan

That's interesting but leaves stumped as to why they are too long.. maybe just put em back one and live with it.

Damian

[DamianS3]

Hello again folks, a late update for you all..

Well turns out the shocks, springs, and trailing arms are all ok..

So why is it high..? you all ask.. well the body is high on the chassis.? WFT and all that..Eh? I seem to have 4 rubber packers at the back which is over 20mm.

Question to you all, how many do you have or otherwise how much of your fuel tank is below the body line?

Thoughts, pictures etc appreciated.. we reassembled back to as was. Shortening the already short shocks seemed a horrible way to fix this.. it's mostly cosmetic afterall.

I didn't want to start stripping the pads off, as can only think Dulfords put them in for some even more hideous reason (body won't fit?) any other ideas?

Anyway back on road now..

I did discuss trailing arms with TVR Parts who were super helpful, they have the jigs but would like to verify a set against the new ones and ideally fit to a car before offering on open sale. Imagine if they just made them and shipped out and they didn't fit properly? These are Blackpool jigs afterall. We talked prices and I was very tempted but still want 8" rims at some point and my existing good S3 arms are ideal for that.

So if you have a v8s and want to get a special price on new trailing arms give them a call and see if you can work something out.. no promises but I understand an owner willing to help out here would get a great price on a pair from the first production run.

Give em a try someone please, I don't know why the official TVR Parts get such a hard time on here, I've found them to be very good and the spares catalogue is growing all the time. Personally I think it's great they are remanufacturing parts like servos for our old cars. They don't have to and it's a pretty llimited market. I picked up some door horseshoe things new £6 awesome.

Thanks

Damian S3

[DamianS3]

Doh... dammit.. what a fine idea.. thanks

Damian S3