This was the NAUGHTY CORNER

Ha, I went through all the possibilities of things being back to front, upside down, switched sides etc. None seemed to be. It all checked out.



I changed the tyres fairly recently and now have enough clearance that they no longer rub. I'm happy with the switch to a slightly lower profile tyre, although I did quite like it sat on four great big meats. It came to me with extreme budget tyres. They seemed to be a cheap Chinese hybrid car/van tyre . In some places listed for cars, in others for vans. The ride has improved greatly with the new tyres.



Something happened, I'm sure, or maybe it was deliberate as a styling thing to give the car more forward aggression or something back in an age where people were less likely to start messing with wheel offset, width and different tyres. For a long time it was suggested my body may have been been taken off and then put back incorrectly. But that can't be the case because there's no evidence of changes to the mounting positions.

Others suggested it may have had a smash and had the front rebuilt incorrectly. There is absolutely no evidence of that underneath on the metalwork or the fibreglass. It ended up causing a fair amount of debate and disagreement over many months whenever it came up and in the end I felt a bit overwhelmed by the differences of opinion and decided that if I could resolve the rubbing with a tyre change, that would be sufficient.

There are plenty of others with the same wheel position...















... why worry! = )

Hahahaha yes. Having battled with many of this car's supposedly straight lines and apparently parallel features, I've long since concluded that the body mould was made of polythene and they used a trebuchet to toss in strips of wet fibreglass from the other side of the field on a windy day.

Nothing seems to be a decent line on these.

Could you post some pics of your TVR? I do love a 70's TVR. A Vixen burbled past yesterday whilst heading to the beach with my daughter. If I do another old car, it may be a TVR. I only do British retro/classics, for my sins, and I'm running out of cars I still want to own. A TVR or a Gilbern will do me next.

A GRP Dolly spoiler for your delectation:



The angle of dangle does make a lot of difference to both its appearance, fit (they're never perfect but it's amazing a few big bolts, or a heat gun on an original ABS one can do) and effectiveness.

This was possibly an initial contributor to my problem. First things I did with this car were to make some new radiator top cowling out of a single sheet of steel for added rigidity. I also had a bent plate at the top of the driver's side suspension turret that spreads the load for the body where it bolts down. So I took that out, hammered it flat, added a piece of support beneath it and stuck it all back on. Those things certainly helped a little bit and reduced the amount of rubbing to an acceptable amount, but they weren't the answer entirely.

This support plate. It seemed to help to get it straightened...




My home made nose support/radiator cowling...



^ Still looks like this except much dirtier and with shorter bolts the right way around. It's a ruddy PITA to get it in and out.

Wow, Robert, that's a real beauty. I love it.

I'm a bit confused... it's easily done. It looks like a Rover V8... how come there are three exhausts?

QM,

its because there's a big holset hx40 turbo with a 4 inch outlet ,and 3 pipes equalled the area. it used to run a small turbo sequentially with a much bigger holset hx50 , actually ran a best possible 12.32 1/4 in 1993 on treads. but i dragged it out of the shed where it had sat for 6 years ,and decided to try a single smaller one with a spool valve on it.


then i got all medusa y wiv it ,and it got left a bit.


REgards
robert

Love the TVR! More engine than available space in there!

I am in the process of designing and fabricating an alternative frontal support frame with radiator mount. Mine won't have the spare wheel mounted there anymore so I can go for something a bit lighter.