TVR CHIMAERA 400 Project pt2: Them's the brakes!

[@handbrakebob]

9.5k subs? You're getting dangerously close to having to launch merch!

[@UPnDOWN]

I know, I've been getting nosebleeds and pangs of regret.

[@simonbrannigan7834]

One day a chimera will be mine. What a thing they are🤩

[@marcschulz6689]

Wow... the paddle box is a box with paddles in it😂👍

[@scottishcarenthusiastsandtrain]

Great little tinkering video Rich.

[@Mr2OOM]

I recovered the roof on my car a few years ago and my hardtop was definitely fibreglass .. I think a few more of these vids will restore my mojo for completing the "jobs" I started on mine a few years ago and getting it back on the road ..

[@niallsommerville9813]

A little Chimaera flavoured sorbet, tasty. My experience with DoT5 wasn't great, every nook and cranny must be absolutely 100% clean or any moisture collects in dead corners as it doesn't amalgamate within the fluid like DoT4. Not sure I'll use it again unless I was building a brand new system from scratch.

[@UPnDOWN]

I'll be starting with a dry system to be fair.

[@jimmyquinn9639]

Lovely job another good video 🚗🚙🚘👍👍👍👍👍⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

[@dungbetel]

Transcendental Vehicle Repairing... Just the job to clear the mind

[@davidsharp9166]

Always great content

[@The_Car_Stalker]

Love a TVR! Another gret video mate

[@UPnDOWN]

Thanks dog!

[@vicstafford6951]

TVR yeh! We want more!

[@UPnDOWN]

Well, some of you do. The TVR videos do very poorly on the numbers!

[@kimmohietala5359]

Nice wing mirrors

[@alanbellwood3902]

I bought the 450 in the end. Done best part of a thousand miles so far and attended 3 shows with my son. Loving TVR life up here in Blackpool. Have to say the 450 hits the nail on the head for feeling special.

[@UPnDOWN]

Glad to hear it!

[@jorgefernandez-mv8hu]

I feel for you trying to get all that out. Not easy. Instead of the silicone fluid for the brakes, would the Citroen green fluid for their suspension work better?

[@UPnDOWN]

I did wonder this, but it would need a different type of rubber seal in all the components, whereas the silicone doesn't (but it does need seals that aren't pre-contaminated with DOT4).

[@andyyork544]

Great video. What's the reason for changing to dot 5?

[@UPnDOWN]

To avoid issues with corrosion. The master cylinders in these cars have a habit of playing up if left sat for a while.

[@magomat6756]

I need some progress so I start a other project. At the end I can make a car out all the bits and bobse

[@UPnDOWN]

It's about keeping everything ticking over. If you let any of them stall, that's when you get problems.

[@thedeadstig123]

see it alot with master cylinders, factory one will last nearly 20 years and your aftermarket replace might last 5 years if your lucky

[@EVguru]

Pack the new mastercylinder boot with red rubber grease. I do this with all master, slave and wheel cylinders to greatly discourage (nolt going to say prevent) corrosion.

[@philsladen9918]

How about a vauxhall Agila engine and gearbox for Hilda.?

[@UPnDOWN]

Nothing wrong with the engine in Hilda (other than the fact it's too powerful for the transmission, really). Is a Vauxhall Agila engine not transverse too?

[@waynedl99]

@16:00:00 - I hope you mean DOT5.1 not DOT5 which isn't compatible with DOT4 systems

[@UPnDOWN]

I mean DOT5. It's not compatible with systems that have once had DOT4 in, but with new seals/components it's fine, from what I've read. But then this is why I'm doing it on my own car, not a customer's.

[@robertsedgwick1629]

i'm sorry, did you say you have an SM?

[@UPnDOWN]

If I didn't, I will make sure to again.

[@ariejonker8424]

Hé rally talk abortus silicone dot 5 so has to replacement all the moving paris of the brakesystem.

[@ariejonker8424]

Sorry he talks about.!!

[@UPnDOWN]

That's right, you have to renew everything first.

[@stefencooke]

Ian has because French now u have because TVR that would make a good sicker for when u start doing murch

[@richardhoneybun5509]

Shame they didn't galvanize the chassis. Even Reliant galvanized their chassis back then 😊

[@UPnDOWN]

It's an enclosed tubular chassis, much trickier to do. Reliant chassis is just pressed beams so dead simple to galvanise, but to make one strong enough for the TVR it'd need to be ridiculously heavy and big.

[@AnyoneSeenMikeHunt]

Is TVR making cars again now?

[@UPnDOWN]

Very much not, sadly.

[@shauntvr4312]

I have a 1993 tvr chimaera 4litre hc just put a new roof on mine

[@UPnDOWN]

A HC on 1993? Are you sure, they didn't come out until 1995!

[@shauntvr4312]

@UPnDOWN it has gas flowed heads from the factory I mite be rong about it being a hc

[@UPnDOWN]

Ahh, it's better than a HC! Those early 400s were nearer a genuine 220-230bhp, unlike mine which would be lucky to be kicking out 200! If the badge says 400 with '250' underneath, that's a result! HC replaced the 4.3. Nowhere near as good though.

[@mclouj]

You could definitely do worse as far as mid life crisis cars go.

[@onsomebits7486]

What’s the story with that building? Why has it rollers that are now useless? Old mot garage?

[@UPnDOWN]

It's a working dyno.

[@markwgoldsmith]

I guess Mr Wilkinson was stuck with T-V-R rather than using R-E-O because that was already taken for trucks..? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/REO_Motor_Car_Company Or perhaps not...