RE: Showpiece of the Week: Le Mans V600

[dvs_dave]

David87 said:

Bacchus said:

this one

1min24sec

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMy0PdIiXW0

Blimey, that takes me back to being about 10 years old. I must have watched that video about 100 times! Still amazed by the speed of that TVR.

Wouldn’t it be great if the new TVR Griffith is able to pull off a similar trick once it’s actually out there in the wild? That little stunt is what put TVR on the map for me as a teenager.

In the years since, and the internet, it’s known that Cerbera was far from standard. Heavily breathed on engine and rumored to be at least 5 liters.

It would be hilarious if TVR did the same again with the new one, but with a blower having “accidentally” fallen into the engine bay. What with the bonnet being a bolted down panel on many TVR’s, it could be blagged! Just need to keep the supercharger inlet whine muffled, jobs a goodun!

[Bacchus]

dvs_dave said:

In the years since, and the internet, it’s known that Cerbera was far from standard. Heavily breathed on engine and rumored to be at least 5 liters.

Didn't know that! Is the car still around?

[M11 MFP]

https://www.pistonheads.com/classifieds/used-cars/...

RR Royal Blue, parchment, blue piped. Factory V600. Non airbag wheel, dymags, manual, spitfire style gauges, conventional grille.
Pretty sure the owner's arm could be twisted at a reasonable bit under the works asking price!

Edited by M11 MFP on Wednesday 14th February 20:19

[Phil Dicky]

Back in the early 90's a friend of the family, I wont say his name as he's no longer with us, used to work for Aston Martin as I believe the sign off guy. He had one of these for a weekend to try and trace a fault, he'd been asked to put 500 miles on it to try and replicate the problem. He took me out along the A642 between Wakefield and Huddersfield what used to be a fast stretch of road. Fook me that thing shifted all whilst sitting in leather and wilton, still remember that journey like it was yesterday.

[Lewis Kingston]

M11 MFP said:

https://www.pistonheads.com/classifieds/used-cars/...

RR Royal Blue, parchment, blue piped. Factory V600. Non airbag wheel, dymags, manual, spitfire style gauges, conventional grille.
Pretty sure the owner's arm could be twisted at a reasonable bit under the works asking price!

That is absolutely sublime. Just off the dial. Love it.

[Wadeski]

Has anyone seen results from one of these on a rolling road?

Just bearing in mind what other fast cars were making in the mid-90s, and the shed-level engineering of Astons before the millennium (a friend who owned one described his DB7 V12 as a Morris Minor with a Ferrari engine) I wonder if it really got close to 600hp...

[petop]

ZX10R NIN said:

Now that's an engine bay.

When I was picking up my V8 Vantage from Aston Works they showed me around the workshop (awesome to see) and a "normal" Vantage was in getting work done.

Got to love the "scaffolding" design but shows what some nice covers etc can do to smarten up the engine bay (V600) compared to the bog standard!

[Dave Hedgehog]

pSyCoSiS said:

This is my all-time favourite Aston Martin.

An utter animal of a car, especially when it was launched.

And yes, definitely a lottery win purchase!

one of my all time fav cars

used to see one regularly, guy picked up his curry in it the noise OMG!

[M11 MFP]

Wadeski said:

I wonder if it really got close to 600hp...

Yes, they do. Above 100 they pull really quite hard, significantly more strongly than another heavy coupe I have with 250hp / ton. They are fitted with two 1.5 litre Eaton M90 superchargers. These are easily capable of delivering enough pressure and volume for 700hp, when fitted to a 5.3 litre, 4 cam engine. They are also furnished with more effective intercooling when compared to a valley blower setup, so have no reason to doubt it. EVO recorded 100 - 150 mph at 14.3, only 1.3 sec slower than a slightly lighter, 670hp, AMG SL65 black series alongside it.