New engine spec for my Griff

[jeffsy]

All

You may know that my engine gave up the ghost on the first day of a touring holiday in France in September!

End result: a grand tour of the Vosges Mountains in a Peugeot 206 Diesel !!

Anyway, every cloud etc etc, has resulted in my rebuild ending up as...

- 5.4 litre (5,354cc) V8 engine from Rob Robertson and V8 Racing with a full 'Rob' spec including Stage 5 heads and larger Bosch injectors
- Powder coated Rocker covers in red, obviously
- New rocker cover TVR badge courtesy of 'Markh' (Mark Helliker) on here..cheers mate
- Red silicone hose kit c/w stainless jubilee clips from ACT
- Stainless steel radiator pipes from ACT
- Magnetic sump plus courtesy of Steve Heath
- New oil filler cap care of Leven

- Double carbon plenum from ACT
- De catted, coned exhaust manifolds plus de catted Y piece - from ACT which will be ceramic'ed (in silver or red ...tba)
- Emerald ECU - Wiring Loom by Paul Dove - Coil Packs by Mongoose (thanks Mike! they arrived yesterday )

- Chasis POR15'd
- Engine bay repainted and heatshield material renewed (sewing by Alistairs wife at Neil Garner Performance Engineering!!)
- New bonnet stay c/o Dave Beer
- All suspension bolts replaced by the Steve Heath bolt kit (NB New protechs were fitted in May this year)
- Stiffer rear suspension springs
- Better bump stops c/o Demon Tweeks
- Underneath Waxoyl'd for winter
- Balance of items done for a 12,000 mile service
- All Earth points checked and cleaned
- 2 x new Dunlop SP9000 tyres for the front

and, for the benefit of Mrs FFG...

- new rear number plate which will be put on straight this time!!

All work being done by Neil Garner Performance Engineering of Kemble, Near Malmesbury!!

Hopefully getting the car back sometime in the next 2 weeks...need to run in for a while and then HAPPY DAYS...oh...and 2 x half day RideDrive Courses

Thanks to those of you who have helped me out with advice etc - you know who you are!

Cheers

[FlipFlopGriff]

And remind me what you're spending on this little lot?

And new chromie's dust caps in silver with 3 concentric rings (in red) of course - ordered today.
Oh, and the automatic glow when fooked fuses - when we get them all (some are red!)
FFG

[antonyj]

Looks like santa has arrived early, or did you get the numbers right last night?

[apache]

expected figures?

[old64er]

looks a nice engine spec

should see 340BHP and 360 torque i would have thought

[mongoose]

Great stuff mate,it sounds the business.Can't wait to see it

[ricardo bertone]

Sounds great Jeffsy

How much was the suspension bolt kit from Shpub? Are they shiny S/S and/or high tensile?

Ricardo

PS Agree that Markh fella (Mark Helliker) is one in a million.

[Seasider]

jeffsy said:

Lots of red in the engine bay

Lets talk numbers

[Pasco]

Bloody Big Head

[cv1040]

Nice one Graham - wish I could afford to spend the same on mine.

[Ballistic Banana]

Wow Diddle Doo Nieghbour You should certainly be pushing out some Big Fat numbers Now

BB

[rev-erend]

Stage 5 heads and only a double carbon plenum ?

Or is that something new ?

[jeffsy]

errr...cant talk numbers as Im not sure yet how much. I can only afford it as, lets just say its due to a change in personal circumstances!!

On the double/triple plenum I(we) didnt think the difference warranted the price difference at this stage.

Oh btw...I got £789 on fleabay for the remains of the old engine which was a result!

With a fair wind I am hoping it will be in a driveable state before the 25th/26th.

God Iv missed her....

[barreti]

Bloody WOW Jeffsy. BLOODY WOW !!!
Go a bit berserk why don't you. Man they're some specs for that engine - good man

Shame all the red stuff will look poo brown to us colour blind folks though

[Guillotine]

old64er said:

looks a nice engine spec

should see 340BHP and 360 torque i would have thought

More than that I would hope!

nice one jeffsy, will it be on the road/run in for the Griff Shootout? I see you on the list

andy
tvrmonster

Edited by Guillotine on Friday 10th November 08:23

[mongoose]

Ballistic Banana said:

Wow Diddle Doo Nieghbour...............

BB

[gerjo]

Looks like a real monster engine! In that spec it should do at least 375 bhp and 400 lbs. (on Austec's RR)

[BIG COL]

There seems a lot of interesting work going on this week

www.pistonheads.co.uk/gassing/topic.asp?t=325055&f=8&h=0

[jeffsy]

Guillotine said:

old64er said:

looks a nice engine spec

should see 340BHP and 360 torque i would have thought

More than that I would hope!

nice one jeffsy, will it be on the road/run in for the Griff Shootout? I see you on the list

andy
tvrmonster

Edited by Guillotine on Friday 10th November 08:23

Oh ...Id also kinda like to get up and see Joo as well as she went on his rr with the old engine so I could compare like for like...

Should be interesting though...I reckon 350bhp-plus and not far off 400lb...we'll see. Need to run in properly and then get my Ride Drives done!

[jeffsy]

barreti said:

Bloody WOW Jeffsy. BLOODY WOW !!!
Go a bit berserk why don't you. Man they're some specs for that engine - good man

Shame all the red stuff will look poo brown to us colour blind folks though

Cheers bud...be calmed...the exhasuts and Y piece will be ceramiced silver now as I dont want the risk that the red turns brown