Finally gone and done it!!!!
Discussion
So, after many years of debating whether to do it, I have, picked up a Tuscan today, and first impressions are brilliant, 2000 reg with power rebuild 2k ago, engine is sweet as a nut, colour is atlantic halcyon, interior is excellent, but I have a few niggles, the analogue and digital speedo doesn't work, nor does the reverse light, obviously I'll check the easy stuff tomorrow, but for now, I'm cock and indeed a hoop! I'll try and get some pictures uploaded when I work out how to do it! Me thinks a visit to Chatsworth is on the cards next weekend! Bring it on!
Speedo sender in a classic TVR failure. Its near the diff and takes a reading from a cogged wheel one of the drive shafts.
Simple to change, its just screws on place with a locking nut. Only tricky piece is that it has to be within a hairs breath of the cogged wheel
Here is my thread about changing mine
http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...
Reversing light is most likely a miss aligned switch. Much more of a pain to fix as its difficult to get at from both below and centre console
Simple to change, its just screws on place with a locking nut. Only tricky piece is that it has to be within a hairs breath of the cogged wheel
Here is my thread about changing mine
http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...
Edited by PuffsBack on Saturday 20th April 22:04
Reversing light is most likely a miss aligned switch. Much more of a pain to fix as its difficult to get at from both below and centre console
Edited by PuffsBack on Saturday 20th April 22:06
Edited by PuffsBack on Saturday 20th April 22:09
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Am also keen to find out what suspension mods have been done over and above the Nitrons it has. Here's to a long, not too hot, summer and winding A roads!
WhiffofCastrol R said:
So, after many years of debating whether to do it, I have, picked up a Tuscan today, and first impressions are brilliant, 2000 reg with power rebuild 2k ago, engine is sweet as a nut, colour is atlantic halcyon, interior is excellent, but I have a few niggles, the analogue and digital speedo doesn't work, nor does the reverse light, obviously I'll check the easy stuff tomorrow, but for now, I'm cock and indeed a hoop! I'll try and get some pictures uploaded when I work out how to do it! Me thinks a visit to Chatsworth is on the cards next weekend! Bring it on!
Snap! Took delivery of a 2000 reg Atlantic Halcyon one too last week. Great colour. Speedo issues as well so a useful thread to get that sorted. Have got a dyno booked at Austec Racing in Crawley next week to check the power as it seems slightly slow on the pick up - it's been SORNed over the winter so may just need a good blast to clean it out. Maybe it's just a different feel to the VX 220 I also have which seems more responsive. Am also keen to find out what suspension mods have been done over and above the Nitrons it has. Here's to a long, not too hot, summer and winding A roads!
MGBGTChris said:
Congratulations!
Hopefully I'm able to post such a topic next year! Of course such a purchase is a lot of preparation! Could you tell me a bit on how and why you choose this example? Planning, preparation, etc. ? Any info is welcome
Thanks in advance and enjoy your Tuscan!
Well to be honest I was first considering a T350T, it having been described as the most user friendly TVR yet but when I first sat in one it didn’t feel much bigger than my VX220 and wasn’t really a true convertible, not as much as Tuscan anyway. Hopefully I'm able to post such a topic next year! Of course such a purchase is a lot of preparation! Could you tell me a bit on how and why you choose this example? Planning, preparation, etc. ? Any info is welcome
Thanks in advance and enjoy your Tuscan!
Luckily the dealer also had 2 Tuscans, a 3.6L which didn’t impress and a 4.3L (Warranted Power rebuild) which did!
The reflex purple colour was great, the interior very good, but it smelt of grp/glue at the end of the second test drive making feel a little queesy, had a nasty cold draught coming up from under the steering wheel and no a/c. All that and a yet to be sorted clutch put me off.
So to define my criteria, colour was very important to show of those lovely lines and a flip flop colour was a definite.
I then looked at a 2000 Atlantis Halcyon, with a pretty good spec, top end rebuild, Nitrons, very nice leather interior although carpets a little jaded around the foot wells (an easy fix). A good service history, having been bought by the previous owner from Racing Green, air/con. and it had just a had a new slave clutch cylinder fitted so drove very nicely. I then looked at an S after that but the dark metallic grey did nothing for me – colour again!
Since it seems that there are no two cars the same, you’ll never find exactly what you’re after and at the end of the day it’s a bit of compromise. Most of the other cars on the market I thought had non-descript colours or just too far away. If you wait for that ‘perfect’ car to come on the market (if it ever does) you could probably miss out on one you liked earlier if it has since been sold.
Anyway, that’s my thinking and no doubt others will have their own criteria – each to their own as they say – happy hunting!
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