TVR Griffith 500 - LS3 6.2L V8 Topcats Racing Conversion
Discussion
SirSquidalot said:
This is the best car i've seen for a while in readers cars, what an epic build.
Thanks! Doesn't feel like mine yet!
Cleaned it for the first time today. It's mint! It's really nice cleaned a car that's pristine! Looking forward to summer!
Starting to get used to it, but it's just so brutal. Tried 3/4 throttle today in second gear and it just sat there wheel spinning! Haha!
zed4 said:
Monkeylegend said:
No shrinking violet 
Rear wheels look a size to large for my liking, 17's would suit it better, just my personal taste, but otherwise
Yeah, I think the wide angle photo exaggerates the size of the rear wheel. This photo is a bit more realistic. But I get what you mean. Rear wheels look a size to large for my liking, 17's would suit it better, just my personal taste, but otherwise
The car actually had the inner arches at the front modified to take the larger and wider wheels. It's running 225 at the front and 255 at the back.
16463761_10158203385910302_790549788793051430_o by Daniel Yeates, on FlickrTHAT engine bay is
Plus a bonus Lotus Carlton in the background to...nice.
aka_kerrly said:
zed4 said:
Monkeylegend said:
No shrinking violet
Rear wheels look a size to large for my liking, 17's would suit it better, just my personal taste, but otherwise
Yeah, I think the wide angle photo exaggerates the size of the rear wheel. This photo is a bit more realistic. But I get what you mean. Rear wheels look a size to large for my liking, 17's would suit it better, just my personal taste, but otherwise
The car actually had the inner arches at the front modified to take the larger and wider wheels. It's running 225 at the front and 255 at the back.
16463761_10158203385910302_790549788793051430_o by Daniel Yeates, on FlickrTHAT engine bay is
Plus a bonus Lotus Carlton in the background to...nice.
The Lotus Carlton was very cool. Loved it.
What about my girlfriend's M135i?!
PurpleAki said:
Very very nice but the roll bar spoils it for me. Would make the car look cheap and spoil the lines when the rear section of the roof is folded down.
I've not yet folded the rear hood down. I had the roof panel off yesterday, but left the rear section up. I used to leave it up on my Chimaera too. It always made a mess of the velcro bit at the bottom of the hood when I folded it down! I will drop the hood down in the next few days and see how it looks.
Carlson W6 said:
A very good friend of mine commissioned this to be built.
He is well known here on the TVR forum.
His attention to detail is fastidious and you can
completely rest assured no corners will have been cut
in this project.
Yes, it's been very well built. Christian and Topcats did a fantastic job. It does feel strange to be taking credit for someone else's creation! But it is mine now! He is well known here on the TVR forum.
His attention to detail is fastidious and you can
completely rest assured no corners will have been cut
in this project.
It does have a few electrical niggles, which I need to get sorted, but otherwise it's spot on!
my fave.zed4 said:
PurpleAki said:
Very very nice but the roll bar spoils it for me. Would make the car look cheap and spoil the lines when the rear section of the roof is folded down.
I've not yet folded the rear hood down. I had the roof panel off yesterday, but left the rear section up. I used to leave it up on my Chimaera too. It always made a mess of the velcro bit at the bottom of the hood when I folded it down! I will drop the hood down in the next few days and see how it looks.
In fact I've got a Tuscan in the same colour with black wheels.
It's just that as a full convertible, for me the rear section would always get folded down, (something I can't do in a Tuscan, although I regularly take out the rear window) and the roll bar would stick out like sore thumb against the beautiful clean simple lines of the Griffith.
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