Top wishbones...

[BCA]

Hi all,

We're after a passenger side top front wishbone, does anyone know where they are available from/ approximately how much they cost and if any are available asap. The car needs to be ready for a sprint on sunday.

You may all recall that we've had this before, but part of the wishbone buckled - it is the other side now, which has sheared instead (as it has been strengthened where the other failed I guess..) bloody TVR!

Any suggestions most welcome,

Thanks,
BCA

[stuthemong]

http://www.thetvrshop.com/TVR/Parts_details/TVR%20... ?

Stu

[BCA]

Ah, cool - not too bad. Just need to find somewhere near Birmingham now, I guess TVR power may be worth a shout?

[spitfire4v8]

Ben .. have a word with andy at APM as i know he was looking into getting uprated race spec arms made .. might be just what you need to stop this happening again?

[BCA]

Hi Joo, definately something we'll look into (and was considering doing ourselves with the body-off) - but we'll just get the car sprint worthy asap first. The section you strengthened is fine, looks like the rest of the part/the part in general just isnt quite up to our abuse.

Its still going bloody well btw, personal best at Shelsey Walsh last weekend.

[markh1]

I am changing my upper wishbones to tuscan II's so I have a spare front passenger side upper wishbone. It has just been shotblasted, zinc coated and then powder coated so looks like new. £40 quid plus whatever the postage is and its yours.

[Brummmie]

markh1 said:

I am changing my upper wishbones to tuscan II's so I have a spare front passenger side upper wishbone. It has just been shotblasted, zinc coated and then powder coated so looks like new. £40 quid plus whatever the postage is and its yours.

Whats different about Tuscan II ? Just curious. You could fit Saggy stuff all round and widen the track!

[markh1]

Brummmie said:

markh1 said:

I am changing my upper wishbones to tuscan II's so I have a spare front passenger side upper wishbone. It has just been shotblasted, zinc coated and then powder coated so looks like new. £40 quid plus whatever the postage is and its yours.

Whats different about Tuscan II ? Just curious. You could fit Saggy stuff all round and widen the track!

The tuscan ones are wider than the cerb ones. I am not sure if they will widen the track but they will change the camber setup. I am doing it on plasticmans recommendation and I can't remember what he said the effect will be, but basicly it will handle better. The uprights have to have the top ball joint moved outwards to fit the wishbones. I will post up pics when they have all been shot blasted and coated. I started a new thread yesturday about some non-standard shock mounts that my cerb was fitted with, I am going to get these altered so that the shock sits more upright than standard.

[BCA]

Mark, thanks for the offer, but we're now sorted thanks to TVR Power.

I'd be interested to see what you found on your car in terms of damper mounts, ours had something odd on it that suprised even Joo.

[spitfire4v8]

yours had the same mounts as pictured Ben. In fact yours was the first car i'd seen them on at that point!

[BCA]

spitfire4v8 said:

yours had the same mounts as pictured Ben. In fact yours was the first car i'd seen them on at that point!

The sign of a good'un I reckon.

I reckon theres a trick to these we've missed so far... I have an idea.


edit: Joo, do you still have the pictures of the viola pearl (err pink) Cerb GT's set up out of interest??

Edited by BCA on Tuesday 7th July 17:14

[spitfire4v8]

yes ben ive got loads of pics .. send me your email address and i'll wiz them over to you.

[BCA]

YHM

[spitfire4v8]

did you get the reply ben? spread over 3 emails there was so many pics

[BCA]

I've just seen them, thanks Joo.

Very interesting - you had explained it to me before, but I hadnt realise that was how they'd done it on the GT. Does look a little scruffy though!

[markh1]

Are these pictures of the shock mounts you chaps are talking about?

[spitfire4v8]

damper mounts and wishbone pickups are multi-drilled so you have a chopice of roll centres and damper pickups on a true GT chassis. Ive only ever seen one in all my time working on cerbs which implies theyre pretty rare cars!

Ben : did you also notice the exhaust manifolds are different and the system is bigger bore?

[jammy_basturd]

What was the GT then? I'm guessing it wasn't a dealer option like the Red Rose. More like a TVR experiment of some sort, or a planned/scrapped dealer option?

[Omerta]

Ben/Joo - any chance of some uploaded pics?

[BCA]

spitfire4v8 said:

damper mounts and wishbone pickups are multi-drilled so you have a chopice of roll centres and damper pickups on a true GT chassis. Ive only ever seen one in all my time working on cerbs which implies theyre pretty rare cars!

Ben : did you also notice the exhaust manifolds are different and the system is bigger bore?

I didnt notice at first, though now you've mentioned it they're comparitively huge. Very interesting stuff, I wonder what power it made as standard?

Omerta - im afriad the pictures are not mine to publish/forward, sorry.

To the person questioning the GT cars origins, I believe it was offered as an option at one point, just before the 4.5 was introduced, though the idea was canned pretty quickly by the factory. It seems a few of the early cars had odd little trial parts fitted (such as ours, Markh's etc etc) and GT engine numbers - these may or may not have further interesting things in the engines (billet cranks have been talked of in the past.) I believe these cars were merely experimental or built with leftovers from the "GT" cars project.

The actual Cerbera GT as we know it (the purple car) appear to me to be another test bed type car. That said, I cant help but feel it was either done as a singular project for a friend of the factory or even as a homologation model for the early Cerbera Racer that Mark Hales compete in. I havent had a look at the chassis for that one though, so cant comment further on that - its just a thought. It does seem odd that such a different chassis/exhaust would make it onto what is otherwise standard seeming Cerbera, but TVR was always a company like no other. Its just as probable that it was made that way by accident.