Typhon almost finished ...

[prime_al]

Poppped up today to see my car now painted and with the seats and pedal box in - allowing the next stage of the customisation process (i.e set up for heel and toe and my specific back support needs). The car is pretty close now just lacking the engine and gearbox and final bits of trim .. I'm going to mail a few pics to Pies and hope he will pop them up under this for me. I've also taken a few nice pics of the reflex charcoal show car showing the cars front and back (love those rear exhausts !). N.B. Had a 'static' go with the sequential box for the first time and although that levers shape is clearly unfinished the action I'm pleased to say was slickly positive.

[FunkyNige]

prime_al said:

The car is pretty close now just lacking the engine and gearbox and final bits of trim

Just minor bits then
What part of East Anglia are you from Al? I'm from North Norfolk, Fakenham to be exact.

[Pies]

I have moved these pics to thier permanent directory therefore any OLD links to them will no longer work sorry


>> Edited by pies on Wednesday 31st December 12:04

[_DJ_]

I like the colour - is it a pearl? Is this going to be the 1st Typhon (i.e the supercharged version?

DJ

[ByronTVR]

Excellent cars... you lucky owners!
Any more pics pls?!

[tuffer]

Looks Brilliant

[hughesie2]

Just nipping out to the errrr bathroom..

Thats one sexy car...

[RichB]

I see that's running on Dunlop tyres, have TVR abbandoned Toyos or are they simply for rolling it around the workshops? Rich...

[jeremyc]

RichB said:

I see that's running on Dunlop tyres, have TVR abbandoned Toyos or are they simply for rolling it around the workshops? Rich...

The car at MPH03 was on Dunlops as well.

Maybe Toyo don't do 19" tyres, or aren't rated for 220mph.

[DoctorD]

The colour is Reflex Orange, which despite my better advice he went for... and was right to do so! Looks excellent in those pictures and I love the interior shot showing the exposed carbon fibre tunnel.

The tyres are Dunlops rather than Toyos because as far as I'm aware I've never seen a 200mph car fitted with Toyos..

And yes, this is the first production Typhon.

I'm sure prime_al would like to tell you what kind of power/torque figures it's producing at the moment, but he has agreed not to steal TVRs thunder. Use your imagination and then some..



>> Edited by DoctorD on Wednesday 24th December 11:44

[prime_al]

jeremyc said:

RichB said: I see that's running on Dunlop tyres, have TVR abbandoned Toyos or are they simply for rolling it around the workshops? Rich... The car at MPH03 was on Dunlops as well. Maybe Toyo don't do 19" tyres, or aren't rated for 220mph.

Here's the text from my earlier thread :

Sent TVR a copy of the M3 CSL disclaimer which those of us who want will need to sign similarly. My car is going to have a set of sticky road legal track Dunlop tyres fitted (off a Mercedes pace car I'm told), I'm also going to have a set of Goodyear Eagle F1 GSD3's for wet weather use. Although the car comes as standard on the Toyo tyres which Int says are pretty good round Rockingham its nice to have some choice particularly with the performance capability of this car ...

Oh .. tyre sizes are 255/35 x 19 front and 255/40 x 19 rear (yeah I know that seems the wrong way round and that it's unusual to have the same size f & r) ...

[prime_al]

ByronTVR said:

Excellent cars... you lucky owners! Any more pics pls?!

The steering wheel in the photos of my car was a temporary substitute the proper item looks like this ... its a mixture of braveheart suede and black leather. Feels nice ..

[Mrs Fish]

fabulous

[ByronTVR]

prime_al said:

The steering wheel in the photos of my car was a temporary substitute the proper item looks like this ... its a mixture of braveheart suede and black leather. Feels nice ..

Not only the steering wheel must feels nice... there are also 3 pedals bellow it which complete the happiness of the driver!
One which is for the 'horses', one for the huge AP calipers and another to transmit the horses to the ground
Oh forgot and the gear stick...

Nice car, stunning!

>> Edited by ByronTVR on Thursday 25th December 01:42

[ScoobyManchester]

DoctorD said:

I'm sure prime_al would like to tell you what kind of power/torque figures it's producing at the moment, but he has agreed not to steal TVRs thunder. Use your imagination and then some..

I have a pretty wild imagination , gis' a clue!

BTW, will this car have rear seats or the GT fuel tank?

[Prime_al]

ScoobyManchester said:

DoctorD said: I'm sure prime_al would like to tell you what kind of power/torque figures it's producing at the moment, but he has agreed not to steal TVRs thunder. Use your imagination and then some.. I have a pretty wild imagination , gis' a clue! BTW, will this car have rear seats or the GT fuel tank?

That dilema got resolved a while back. Mine was going to be without rear seats and with the larger fuel tank. Since then the spec has firmed up with a 70 litre tank AND rear seats. When I saw that the rear seats add hardly any weight at all (top and bottom thinly padded squabs on top of the naked carbon fibre) it made sense to include them. The car has 4 point harnesses front AND rear attached to a rear bar which is part of the rear roll cage structure. It also has front inertia reel seat belts as with anyone in the back you cannot logically use the front harnesses as they pass through the space where their heads would be!

Clues: if you've seen Brundle's new DVD and wondered whether TVR have a car that can really cut it in that sort of 200mph hyper car company - worry no longer ...

[whitey]

looking good Prime_al !! I'm very jealous !!!

Few questions:
Have TVR confirmed if the supercharged engine is 500 or 550 bhp ?
Is the sequential box standard on the Typhon ?
Are you having a LSD or Hydratrak diff ?
A magazine article had mentioned the possibility of Traction control on the Tuscan R's, do you know anything about this ?
I see the rear exhaust pipes have an insert in them. In the TVR car at MPH03 this was horizontal, but on the first customer car it is vertical, any reason why ? And whats it for ?
Do you know if the carbon fibre body can be repaired in the same way as GRP in the event of any damage ?

When do you expect delivery ?

Cheers
A very jealous Whitey !!

[_DJ_]

Whitey - Engine question was hinted at above, but I think we'll have to wait for accurate figures!

[prime_al]

whitey said:

looking good Prime_al !! I'm very jealous !!! Few questions: Have TVR confirmed if the supercharged engine is 500 or 550 bhp ? >> Sorry - I'm not aware of any official power or torque info confirmed yet (current dyno outputs would make you laugh though ..) << Is the sequential box standard on the Typhon ? >> Dunno mine will << Are you having a LSD or Hydratrak diff ? >> Mine's got a BTR Hydratrak LSD fitted << A magazine article had mentioned the possibility of Traction control on the Tuscan R's, do you know anything about this ? >> Yep <g> as ever its called a restrained right foot, though the sticky 'track day' Dunlops will also play a major role (I understand the magazine to have been mistaken)<< I see the rear exhaust pipes have an insert in them. In the TVR car at MPH03 this was horizontal, but on the first customer car it is vertical, any reason why ? And whats it for ? >> No idea to be honest but would guess its a minor design variation from one car to the next << Do you know if the carbon fibre body can be repaired in the same way as GRP in the event of any damage ? >> Not qualified to say and hoping never to have to find out - the cars external skin is not just carbon fibre most of its under chassis is too, it also has a full length underbody diffuser designed to create significant downforce so draw your own conclusions ! When do you expect delivery ? >> early in 2004 << Cheers A very jealous Whitey !!

Hi Whitey, wow thats a lot of questions .. not sure I can answer them all .. I've stuck what replies I can in between the >> << brackets above.

Hope they provide a bit of info but as ever best port of call for a definitive answer technically is an email to Ecosse at the factory ..

Cheers

Prime_Al

[_DJ_]

Alan,

Are you able to disclose any information about what they factory are doing with your engine? It almost sounds like the your car is going to be used as the test bed for the supercharged engine. Do you know how many engines of that spec exist at the moment? I know you can't disclose the details of power output, but it'd be good to know how the engine is being developed, tested etc and whether you're involved. Is the engine that is currently on the dyno going to be fitted to your car?

The car sounds awesome by the way (quite a claim to fame, having TVR's first supercharged supercar!).

DJ