RV8R - for all things Rover V8, the TVR Griffith and Chimaera and the TVR T-Cars
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Welcome to RV8R, the source of the Resources.
The original idea of RV8R was to provide a location where those with Griffiths and Chimaeras could go for information about their cars in a readily accessible form. The main feature is a downloadable guide, the Griffith and Chimaera Resource, which details owners’ experiences in servicing and working on their cars. The website contains other articles of a more general nature. Including a buyers’ guide, a brief history of the Rover V8 engine, articles on TVR and, most notably, a fault tracing guide and a spare parts finder.
The Contents page, link also above, contains, as you have probably already worked out, a full list of contents.
We are now moving on to other TVR cars, notably the T-cars.
Remember that the information contained on this website and in the Resource is merely descriptions of what people have done.
New this issue
The website and Resource will be updated on a monthly basis. If you wish to be notified when the changes are published, please send an email to this address with the heading Resource.
We have a significant and substantial increase in the details and specifications for all Thanks to Peter Beech who did not so much allow me to use his Griffith Notes copy but gave the complete file to me. I really am grateful.
The website now has a fault finding system that can help point people in the direction of what is wrong. Don’t get your hopes up too far as it is impossible to be definitive, but it gives you ideas.
This was the most requested item and whilst I am happy to produce it I must give a warning. There are a number of problems associated with buying parts from a motor factors in the hope that they will be identical to the original or at least be fit for purpose so please read the first page with care.
But to get personal for a moment. My Chim recently failed the MoT due to a faulty rear calliper. I ordered one through Racing Green Cars that was delivered promptly enough. It would appear the chap told me the wrong ‘side’ so it did not fit. I told the company to deal with RGC directly and they were told, as I was chasing them to complete the work, that they should buy one directly from Fords. This turned out to be £23 dearer that the one supplied by RGC. And, just to make things really irritating, TVR ‘reversed’ the Ford callipers so the n/s was in fact the one fitted to the offside of the Ford. So it had to be re-ordered and it would have been faster and cheaper to get RGC to send another.
This new section contains 24 pages or so of general information that would be useful to the owners of RV*-engined cars, including Griffs and Chims, together with a few articles on the T-cars that, I hope will be built on in the months to come.
The big change
I notified over 800 subscribers via email of the publication of the February issue of the Resource. Yet somehow there were over 1340 downloads. Further, at a TVRCC Regional meeting one chap said that he’d been sent a copy of the Resource via email from a friend in another Region.
It was my wish to keep control of the distribution but I know when I’m beaten. So anyone can download the Resource by going to The Resource and following the instructions.
Welcome to RV8R - the source of the Resources
We would like to thank ACT Products and Racing Green Cars for their help in ensuring that the Resource stays free to users.
I’ve heard
Rumour control here.
Despite the time I’ve been away from TVR Sprint I have still kept some contacts. I phoned one re the non-appearance of TVR at Goodwood.
I was told:
1/ I have seen the car and it is a beauty. Awesome.
2/ There is a move away from final production in Germany to England.
3/ Ex-TVR employees are engaged in the production of the car.
4/ I was told the reason for non-appearance at Goodwood FoS and it seems to fall in with what I know of the organisers.
IT IS COMING
IT MIGHT WELL BE BRITISH