Anyone drifted a TVR yet?

Hi I have been reading this forum for a while but havent posted. Well I used to drive a high compression 4L chimaera as a daily driver and used to drift it a bit on the streets, 70mph slip road drifting was fun. Admittedly the suspension was a bit soggy and the weight was fairly central making it harder to drift in tight corners. If I wasnt a student I would defenitely have a cerb as a drift car.
There is absolutely nothing wrong with the rover v8 engines as long as they are properly maintained(I currently drive a turbocharged rover v8 rx7). The TVR made engines were crap and will grenade if driven hard.
As far as using a tvr as a drift car goes it would defenitely need the usual drift upgrades ie coilovers, more lock, better seats etc. You can now pick up a fairly decent TVR for around 7k and they already have the power to slide well and have fairly bullet proof drivelines so it wouldnt actually cost all that much to modify.

Stand out from the crowd and dont follow the JDM sheep and drift a TVR :thumbs:
 
I've owned a Cerbera ... it was the biggest motoring disaster i've ever had the pleasure (:D) of owning, now bear in mind this was a 1997 33k mile car, Full TVR history and immaculate, within a week of buying it the clutch went, then after getting it back about 2 weeks later the electrics went west right in the middle of a very busy junction, car just sat there saying "fuck you" .. amazing how everyone just stands and points at the posing twat in the TVR that doesn't work : . anyway sorted the electric then it went bonkers again coz it "fell out of tune" .. sorted that .. then it did it again ffs :D

But when they work .... when its all going well then you can keep your Japanese/German shite coz they're fucking properly smashin :D

Other than the first 200 odd units (dodgy internals apparently) the AJPV8 is strong as any other engine however ... there's fuck all lock though, handling is a bit wishy washy as well.

There's no rev limiter though .... cool :D

Would i buy another one ? .. yup tomorrow ...

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Looks beautiful mate. I'd love to try one for the novelty but I have enough self imposed breakages without adding a million unreliability factors into the equation!
 
had a good look round a few at WRC ...and to be honest they really are shoddy... still want one though
 
think I'll hang onto mine, its running so nicely now, was looking to swap for something interesting , like perhaps a jap drifty thing, but im starting to think id be crazy to get rid, - so anyone here up for showing me how to drift properly in the cerb? Ive always thought it would be pretty cool to have it set up properly for drifting and put a genuine "UK" car on the uk drift scene, the wheels are already in place haha

TVR Cerbera AJP V8 - swap for something different of around 13k value! - GT-R Register - Official Nissan Skyline and GTR Owners Club forum
 
Andy Barnes said:
As title, anyone drifted a TVR yet?

I real one I mean, a Cerbera 4.2/4.5?

Been thinking it would be a good base car if you started from the ground up and ditched thier pants electronics.

Proper basic engine, wheels and a seat type of car...

Anyone?

Andy
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have drifted quite a few TVRs and just sold a tuscan challenge car.....that was a drifter but nothing like a road car and twice the cost expensive 2 drift........problem i found was that the diff (tvr uprated one) is a hydratrak horrible affair that spits you off and has no control . would have to put a true plated diff in and can be a pain..
concept good but hard in reality and you can buy such a good jap for that money that works so well
so good car but if it was a drifter i would have used mine:D..wouldnt stand the abuse:smash:
 
Stavros said:
To summarise, who gives a frick what the wheelbase is, there a lot more important issues than that anyhow.:
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shame the judges dont agree:smash::smash:
starlet is as wide as its long........the lexus is coming no excuses!!

mr barnes just get in that pink 350 and com play:nod:
if you can that is:p:euge::p:wave:
 
the tvr engines are shit thay even say it on tvr forums, the rover engine is the best bet, there faster and bomb proof and parts are cheaper the only bit that lets the rover powerd ones down is all the tvr electrics if you sorted that it would be very reliable.

matt
 
s12 silvia said:
the tvr engines are shit thay even say it on tvr forums, the rover engine is the best bet, there faster and bomb proof
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The Rover engines are faster? Seriously, you need to go in some TVRs if you think the Rover engine ones come even close to the Cerbera, even the 5litres suck ball in comparison.
First time I've heard a Rover V8 (thats been highly tuned anyhow) be called bombproof either, shit maybe. But in TVR reliability terms maybe, lol.
 
Stavros said:
The Rover engines are faster? Seriously, you need to go in some TVRs if you think the Rover engine ones come even close to the Cerbera, even the 5litres suck ball in comparison.
First time I've heard a Rover V8 (thats been highly tuned anyhow) be called bombproof either, shit maybe. But in TVR reliability terms maybe, lol.
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i have been in a fue and i have spoke about them on tvr forums and the tvr engines are the gay ones sorry but thay are pretty new like there first engines if you no what i mean hence un reliable.

the rover v8 isnt even a rover its some legendery american v8 i cant remember but its somthing like a olds mobile and potentionaly one of the best engines ever made
 
s12 silvia said:
the rover v8 isnt even a rover its some legendery american v8 i cant remember but its somthing like a olds mobile and potentionaly one of the best engines ever made
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lol :no: :wack:

Its a GM/Buick engine from the very early 1960s, and it never has and never will be that good, reliabile, strong, tuneable.
Its "fairly" light, and ok for lowish power/rev applications, but it excels nowhere.
Certainly not legendary, 90% of american car people will have never heard of it.

They dropped it in 1963 as it was a bit wank in comparison to other american V8s, and Rover bought the rights/tools for it.
 
Stavros said:
lol :no: :wack:

Its a GM/Buick engine from the very early 1960s, and it never has and never will be that good, reliabile, strong, tuneable.
Its "fairly" light, and ok for lowish power/rev applications, but it excels nowhere.
Certainly not legendary, 90% of american car people will have never heard of it.

They dropped it in 1963 as it was a bit wank in comparison to other american V8s, and Rover bought the rights/tools for it.
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thats the one dude i just remember seeing it on somthing with clarkson going on about how great it is.
 
Not trying to take this off topic, but I always thought about a "british drift car" and so far my answer would be a Jag S type. The XK could be good too but I think the 4 door Jag would be a good look. It shouldn't be too hard to find a 4l V8 supercharged number and find a way of mounting a manual transmission to it.

Could be quite a bit cheaper than a TVR too if you start out with a fairly basic model.

just some thoughts...
 
Stavros said:
Pretty sure a Tremec T56 bolts straight on, as per fitted to Astons and practically every other 6spd front engine RWD car in the world.
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Very interesting. I personally wouldn't be able to take on such a project but it does float a few good ideas out there for someone who might want a new challenge.
 
Awesome idea Andy, even with a crap rover V8 (as a side note the ones used in later TVR's are very far removed from the 'Buick 215' 150hp job you get in SD1's and range rovers, but still not the most reliable of beasts) and the lack of lock it would probably still be better than a 350z!

And you have the money and contacts (as you'll need someone with some imagination and engineering finess to work on and modify it, as suffice to say it won't be the usual jap bolt on mods) to realise this idea. Do it!
 
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