Can u fit Cerbera uprights, brakes etc to a Chim

[andyelsey]

I would like to uprate the brakes and fit Cerbera wheels to my Chim by fitting the Cerbera uprights complete with brakes. Any body know if they would fit? I had a quick look under a cerbera today and the wishbones and uprights look the same. What diff is used in a Cerbera? if it is the same as a Chim then the drive shafts would be needed too. Anybody performed this conversion?

[shpub]

The pragmatic answer is no. It has been done by the factory once but invoilved a lot of butchery, cursing, time and money including fitting steering racks upside down etc etc. even with access to the factory suppory, Neil Anderson has gone on record as saying never again.

Steve
www.tvrbooks.co.uk

[andyelsey]

Thanks Steve, its a shame it is so difficult , i guess the geometry is different. I suppose the only other alternative is to find aftermarket discs and calipers and those Tuscan style spider wheels with a 4 stud ford pattern.

[pebbledash]

andyelsey said:

Thanks Steve, its a shame it is so difficult , i guess the geometry is different. I suppose the only other alternative is to find aftermarket discs and calipers and those Tuscan style spider wheels with a 4 stud ford pattern.

From speeking to Neil at TVR, the factory upgrade to spiders for the griff/chim is based on tuscan/t350/tamora breaks etc...

[andyelsey]

Thats interesting, tell me more

[shpub]

Yes but it involves modifying the existing hubs and can only be done on the later cars with the compatible rear uprights/brakes.

I think there is a big waiting list for this as stuff has to be made individually for each car.

[andyelsey]

Oh dear, looks complicated and time consuming. Back to plan B, aftermarket discs and calipers and those Tuscan style spider wheels with a 4 stud ford pattern.

I dont want to modify existing bits if i can help it because i just might want to change it all back to standard before i sell it. i want to move up to a 500 in a year or so.

[joospeed]

I've done this very conversion on a griffith, also converted to electric power steering, it's by no means as complicated as peole would have you believe.

It's better to start with the very early cerbera front hubs, they're much thicker and better for machining. You need to have made some steering arms and rose joint the track rods so you can shim them to eliminate bump steer.

the rear is straightforward, hardest part is getting a handbrake cable made up. I had shafts made up by a guy near harrogate.

However, the cost is still prohibitive, I did mine before the factory conversion kit was available, and the ex-cerbera route is much more expensive than the factory kit .. the whole conversion including the power steering conversion was just short of 3k gb pounds .. ouch! .. but it's not difficult at all .. just time consuming.

[greenv8s]

Not difficult ... if you're a Joolz! For the rest of us, I'll file this under 'difficult and expensive'!