Is the Chim metric or imperial?

[e635815]

Hello all of you,

I am considering buying an English Chimera and import it to France. I'd like to service the car myself since we have no more TVR representation in the country (we never had a lot anyway ).
My question is the following:

Shall I buy a set of imperial tools or would my metric fit the nuts and bolts (as it does with an Elise)?

Thanks a lot for your precious help.
Regards
Philippe

[MikeTVR]

The engine is almost all imperial but the rest is almost all metric from the experience I've had to date which has been reasonably extensive.

Many imperial sizes can be accomodated with metric sockets and spanners. Make sure that you have hexagonal sockets rather than star profile sockets as the latter are less tolerant to size differences and will tend to round off nut/bolt heads.

Mike

[Chimjunkie]

Just found this out the hard way bought a really good quality metric set of sockets for rebuilding the engine. Only bloody part of the car which is imperial