RE: Red Rose Cerbera
Discussion
10% increase in power is fine. But increase over what? The highest 4.5 observed so far has been 350bhp, so that's still only 385. In fact, JR himself says it's only 25 bhp or so, so mine might only be 375.
danny
PS My motorbike is still faster to the legal limit
>> Edited by dannylt on Sunday 16th June 23:49
danny
PS My motorbike is still faster to the legal limit
>> Edited by dannylt on Sunday 16th June 23:49
it's just numbers blablabla go and testdrive blablabla
I can't hear it !!!
How the f... should I feel on a 15min testdrive that its got 1210Kg (inst. of 1100Kg) and it's producing only 385 bhp inst. of 420????? .... and this is a serious deviation!!
Then rather Bentley, and don't quote anything. As long as it's "enough", they don't care what the output is.
Gentlemen at TVR: This car deserves a little more "grandesse"
Poor poor poor ....
Bigmouth!
I can't hear it !!!
How the f... should I feel on a 15min testdrive that its got 1210Kg (inst. of 1100Kg) and it's producing only 385 bhp inst. of 420????? .... and this is a serious deviation!!
Then rather Bentley, and don't quote anything. As long as it's "enough", they don't care what the output is.
Gentlemen at TVR: This car deserves a little more "grandesse"
Poor poor poor ....
Bigmouth! quote:Well, I did get a 15% increase in power, from 350 to 400. Who was this friend of yours at TVR? You should have asked what the actual power was as wel!!
I don't think that 450bhp is optimistic at all ...
A friend of mine at TVR told me that there is "a good 10-15% increase in power". if you do the math that equates to 462bhp to 483bhp. This should just about pull off 200 mph or at least get damn near it.
I'm talking about Power at the flywheel not the rear wheels.
The guy who told me is "just" one of the people who works at the factory , he's friendly with one of the engineers and that's how he (and I) found out about the increase.
And apparently there's also talk about a 5 ltr AJP V8 for a limited edition cerbera but i think this could just be a rumour at the factory.
I've got all my fingers crossed though !!!
The guy who told me is "just" one of the people who works at the factory , he's friendly with one of the engineers and that's how he (and I) found out about the increase.
And apparently there's also talk about a 5 ltr AJP V8 for a limited edition cerbera but i think this could just be a rumour at the factory.
I've got all my fingers crossed though !!!
Before I had a 4.5 Cerby I went to Blackers for a test drive in a yellow '4.5' factory car - it was unfeasibly rapid and span it's wheels without any provocation. The term 'animal' is often used but this was truly savage. On the basis of that experience I ordered the car.
I had the car for a year and did 10k in it and generally mashed the pants of it here and in Europe. It never, however, felt remotely like that demo.
Transpires that the car I was taken out in was nominally badged 4.5 but was originally host to a 5.1 litre lump which wasn't too reliable(!), subsequently replaced with 4.7 litres...but nobody was sure which version I'd driven.
The saliency of this point is that when you've got high 400s or even (claimed) 500 gee gees within a Cerby (seen the ad?) then you'd better fit an ejctor seat.
I had the car for a year and did 10k in it and generally mashed the pants of it here and in Europe. It never, however, felt remotely like that demo.
Transpires that the car I was taken out in was nominally badged 4.5 but was originally host to a 5.1 litre lump which wasn't too reliable(!), subsequently replaced with 4.7 litres...but nobody was sure which version I'd driven.
The saliency of this point is that when you've got high 400s or even (claimed) 500 gee gees within a Cerby (seen the ad?) then you'd better fit an ejctor seat.
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