New Bloke!

[stickylabels]

Hello All,

Just saying hello instead of lurking as per the last 3 or 4 months. First Tvr purchase just over a week ago and thoroughly enjoying
the madness so far....! Hoping to learn a lot more about them as I go with help from here and with a bit of luck put some info back in.

Hopefully a pic..

Cheers all

stickylabels

[ginkent]

Welcome.
Cerb speed 6 owner myself.
What is the black beauty ?

[ukkid35]

I would love to get a chance to drive my car in the Highlands, very jealous!

Car looks great, perhaps a little low at the front, but that's only because I've recently become supersensitive to badly adjusted ride height.

Looks like Sports Tails to me, fine as long as you have no intention of driving on track, or for more than 30 minutes at a time. They really are the work of the Devil. Don't get me wrong, it can be quite fun scaring the Bejeezus out of passers by, but it wears thin fairly quickly.

[Jhonno]

To me it look high on the arse rather than low on the front..

Lovely looking Cerb though! Welcome.

[stickylabels]

Thanks for the comments chaps. It's a 4.5 in Moonraker and it had just turned 12000 before that photo.

The pipes are 'sports' and they do what they say on the tin!! not planning on any track work just now
and if the novelty wears thin I'll track down something a wee bit quieter.

As to the ride height, the car is on quite a slope (downwards) and there was a fair bit of camber aswell
so I will keep a check on things as new Bilsteins (latest spec) were fitted just a few hundred miles ago
and may settle a little yet.

Any recommendations on good spanner men up my way at all? I usually do the bulk of things myself,
but will need someone to manage the trickier (read crap) stuff!

Cheers

[TwinKam]

Congrats, looks nice.
But its a 4.2 according to its reg...

[stickylabels]

Yup!

Went through it all with James at TVR Mads where I bought it as I came across the same issue re insurance etc.

All the supplying dealer paperwork shows 4.5 back in '98 and continues through with the rest of the history so someone's paperwork somewhere (factory?) wasn't up to much....

Sticky

[robsco]

Most of the early 4.5s were registered as 4.2s. Typical TVR.

[Mr Cerbera]

Moonraker Black

The most beautiful (and, by the way, the fastest)colour ever created

[tangerinedream]

Welcome, and congratulations - beautiful car.

On the ride height issue, what is it meant to be? Ever since I saw photos of my car at the Millbrook 20th anniversary bash, I've been convinced my car is too high at the front relative to the back. Is this something any specialist could determine and resolve (Str8Six look after mine) or do you need a suspension specialist, like centre of gravity?

Sorry for the hijack...

[ukkid35]

tangerinedream said:

On the ride height issue, what is it meant to be?

I will shortly post some video where the front of my car is too low following corner balancing. All you can hear is me swearing because the car is undriveable. When the tyres touch the top of the wheel arch there is a viscous braking effect, which sends the car darting in that direction - highly unstable and dangerous.

[aide]

Mr Cerbera said:

Moonraker Black

The most beautiful (and, by the way, the fastest)colour ever created

I'm not sure black is the fastest colour however it certinally is beautiful
Welcome!
Aide

[Jhonno]

ukkid35 said:

tangerinedream said:

On the ride height issue, what is it meant to be?

I will shortly post some video where the front of my car is too low following corner balancing. All you can hear is me swearing because the car is undriveable. When the tyres touch the top of the wheel arch there is a viscous braking effect, which sends the car darting in that direction - highly unstable and dangerous.

How low is your car Paul?!! Have you done any bump steer mods?

[ukkid35]

Jhonno said:

How low is your car Paul?!! Have you done any bump steer mods?

I had to fix it that morning, luckily managed to borrow a shock spanner from a guy running the Bilstein stand. Raised it to roughly where it had been before, and it's now fine.

[stickylabels]

All interesting info folks. Had a closer look at mine today stance wise and it could probably do with slightly raising the front and a touch down on the rear, but I'm not getting any bump steer or rubbing from the front even on some poorly surfaced roads 4 up.

In time I'll get something more scientific done and get it all measured etc. Meanwhile I'd better get buffing the Moonraker (baboom-tish).....

cheers

[Jhonno]

Yours doesn't look all that low on the front tbh. I would just lower the rear and go from there.

[gruffalo]

I am with Paul, it looks low at the front, rear does not look high at all.

Ride height on these cars has a big effect on handling and many seem to be set low which does look quite good but does not perform well.

[Moycie]

Welcome to the madhouse. I nearly went to look at this, but stumbled upon a Speed 6 instead. Moonraker looks great. Enjoy!

[Jhonno]

gruffalo said:

I am with Paul, it looks low at the front, rear does not look high at all.

Ride height on these cars has a big effect on handling and many seem to be set low which does look quite good but does not perform well.

The issue with running lower on the front can be bumpsteer.. He says his doesn't do this. I run mine a little lower than his, but I have also spaced the rack up slightly to help geo. Mine does not bumpsteer or drag itself off into a hedge under braking either.

I am looking at a pic of 16 different Cerbs atm, I really wouldn't say it was particularly low, but you could get a fist in the rear (ooo-err).

[ukkid35]

ukkid35 said:

I will shortly post some video where the front of my car is too low following corner balancing. All you can hear is me swearing because the car is undriveable. When the tyres touch the top of the wheel arch there is a viscous braking effect, which sends the car darting in that direction - highly unstable and dangerous.

Here it is

http://vimeo.com/185947260