How much does a 4.0L Griff weigh?

[larrylamb11]

Just trying to work out some figures....
Anyone know how much a 4.0L Griff weighs and what 0-60 time they are claimed (or actually) do? Power to weight ratio is one of the things i am endeavouring to calculate.

[marco]

From memory the weight is 1060kg and the Autocar figure for the 0-60 for that model was 5.2 seconds. Whilst the factory horsepower figures won't be seen on a rolling road (transmission losses, aciliaries, wrong kind of snow, etc.) the performance is supposed to be pretty much cock on.


Marco

[larrylamb11]

Hmmm... interesting. Thank you.

[2 sheds]

larrylamb11 said:

Power to weight ratio is one of the things i am endeavouring to calculate.

200-210 bhp per ton , standard car

[richb]

I saved this as an excel spreadsheet ages ago, it doesn't paste very well on here but i am sure you can pick the bones out of it! Basically the fastest 0-100 was a Cerbera 4.2 in 9.1 seconds, with fastest Griff 500 at 10.2 seconds. Rich...

Where/who Car BHP Date Magazine Top Speed 0-100 1/4 mile 30-70
Road Test Cerbera 4.2 350 5th June 1996 Autocar 185 9.1 12.4 3
Road Test Griffith 500 340 27th Oct 1993 Autocar 161 10.2 12.8 3.6
Fastest TVR at Back Home Sprint (Ian Moon) Cerbera 4.2 ? 12.96
Second Fastest TVR at Back Home Sprint (Jeff Statham) 420 SEAC 13.04
Road Test Griffith 4.3 280 17th June 1992 Autocar 161 11.1 13.2 3.9
Fastest Griffifth at Back Home Sprint (Neil Taylor) 5.0 (L reg) 340 13.34
Fastest Chimaera at Back Home Sprint (Ted Reddick) 5.0 ? 13.56
Road Test Chimaera 4.5 285 Mar-97 Top Gear 153.5 12.6 13.7 4.7
Road Test Chimaera 4.0 240 16th June 1993 Autocar 158 13.2 13.8 4.5
Road Test Chimaera 5.0 320 Mar-98 Top Gear 13.4 14 5

[GreenV8S]

There are power and weight figures for most of the recent TVRs at the back of the regs for the TVRCC Speed Championship.