New Chassis..?

[techbotics]

Good Evening Gents

I understand someone bought the jigs from TVR and is able to manufacture a new S chassis.. is this true..? Who is it please and how much is one likley to cost..?

My existing one is proper F**ked when the body came of the true extent of the rot became apparent...

Cheers

Damian

[Mr Plow]

I believe TVR car Parts/Dulford Automotive have the S chassis jigs. They are in Cullompton, Devon.
I don't know how much a brand new one would be, they repaired mine.

[mep12345]

You'd be surprised at what can be done to repair. A new one will cost you more than the car is worth. Have a look at my website (www.gbsportscar.com) and the little shop of horrors page for the state mine was in and you'll probably feel a bit better about yours. To repair mine cost about £650 and I had someone do the welding for me. It cost me personnally about 3 man days of work for the strip and body lift.

Seriously it isn't that difficult, just time consuming.

Mark

[merky300]

Can you post some pics of the chassis, it's not always as bad as it first looks. If it's just the outriggers they can be repaired easily for little cost. If it is the rear tubes where the trailing arms mount then it can be a bit more time consuming but again if you can do some of the work yourself it isn't expensive to replace the tubes and fabricate a few brackets.

Tony

[kenpage]

damian tvr car parts have the jigs from tvr but when i needed a chassis they were not prepered to build me one, all they wanted to do was repair the old one i think at some point adrian was going to build them but i dont think there has been any movement on that..my chassis was totally finished to the extent that tower view said i needed paul daniels not them,dont give up looking they do turn up i got mine from a chicken shed in kent, found it on ebay ps it might be worth talking to gerald he is breaking a s2

Edited by kenpage on Friday 27th February 14:45

[Barkychoc]

Look at Trickjohn's chassis repair here, shows just what can be achieved

http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...

[TonupS2]

Damian
I think you have an S3, if so you will have trouble putting all your bits on a S2 chassis. I am doing it the other way putting my S2 bits on the S3 chassis. The biggest difference is in the rake of the rear suspension uprights. I think the shorter/lower rake is in my favour but I'm not sure it works the other way around. I had to modify the rear body fixing points and trailing arms. I have not yet yet put the body on as I keep finding subtle differences, like the S2 ARB is different to the S3, so the bracket will not fit. It would probably be best you look and wait for an S3 chassis. As stated above Im sure they would be able to cut out and replace most of the outrigger sections on yours, without too much drama.

[techbotics]

Thanks for the support guys.. I have been told the jigs would be required to rebuild the back end otherwise the handling could be horrible...

Body already off so will post some pics later.. I am thinking strip.. send chassis away then rebuild... just need another garage to put the body in for ... hmm 3 months.. or is that 3 years? (am I being crazy here..?)

Cheers

Damian