Anybody else here ever owned or driven a Scimitar GTE?

I'm in the process of sorting out a pretty decent 1983 2.8 which has burned a hole in my wallet this month (and last, come to think of it ) and I'm hoping for some words of encoragement from likeminded nutters with rust under their fingernails who like that sort of thing...

On the shopping list this month:

New stainless steel fuel tank & miscellaneous fitting bits

Brand new carb from Germany

Working stereo

Bit of re-wiring to prevent the ever-worrying fire risk

Manual choke conversion (auto chokes are the bane of every carb car I've owned)

Fix the lights

Fix the heaters

Fix the steering rack boot

Fitted a spiffing leather gearknob

Bill for the above? Might find out tomorrow - Merry bloody Xmas I doubt!!!

Oh, and for anyone who likes grubby old cars with big uneconomical engines, they don't get much better than this...

A guy who works for Practical Performance Car magazine is building a 27 Litre SD1...

Its a Staff Car, Has a 27 Litre Meteor V12 Aero-engine. - Twin Overhead Cams, 48 Valves, 1550lb/ft torque @ 1600rpm and 650bhp @ 2500rpm.

And I thought the Furby was torquey! :eek:

Bit pants on the BHP per tonne though!

Schimitars are cool

Schimitars are cool

Whats the performance like? Are they firberglass?

Whats the performance like? Are they firberglass?

They're pretty fast.

And they're fiberglass.

Phil

Oh, and for anyone who likes grubby old cars with big uneconomical engines, they don't get much better than this...

I can't compete on cubic capacity but I'm sure my 6 litre Muzzie comes pretty close to that in the economy stakes

I used to have a 2.8i Capri (which I think had the same running gear as your Scimitar). It was actually reasonably quick, and really comfortable for long journeys.

But it wasn't actually very thirsty: I regularly got more than 30 mpg from it, and occasionally as high as 35 mpg.

Does your Scimitar have the 4- or 5- speed gearbox? The 4-speed is excellent: the ratios are spot-on, and it was still good for 130+mph.

If the Scimitar uses the same airbox as the Capri, you can get 6bhp extra using a hole cutter...

edit: I've just seen that yours uses a carburettor. I suspect it was the fuel injection that made mine so economical, but it also prevented tuning it to more than approx. 180bhp.

s that a typo or do you actually mean 27 litre and not 2.7 litre?

Oh' date=' and for anyone who likes grubby old cars with big uneconomical engines, they don't get much better than this...

A guy who works for Practical Performance Car magazine is building a 27 Litre SD1...

Its a Staff Car, Has a 27 Litre Meteor V12 Aero-engine. - Twin Overhead Cams, 48 Valves, 1550lb/ft torque @ 1600rpm and 650bhp @ 2500rpm.

And I thought the Furby was torquey! :eek:

Bit pants on the BHP per tonne though! [/quote']

How long is it going to be until some nutter tries to slot in an English Electric 16CSVT locomotive engine to a car? 247 litre turbocharged and aftercooled V16. 2700 bhp @ 850 rpm. Torque - adequate. Bit gutsy on diesel, though

:eek:

Back to reality - I had a 3 litre Capri Ghia once - it never ever did better than 22 mpg :thumbdwn:

s that a typo or do you actually mean 27 litre and not 2.7 litre?

Looking at the stats, I think he means 27 ltr.

In response to the above:

Yes, it's fibreglass. It's a 2792cc Ford Granada lump with a Solex EEIT carb that took me the best part of a year to track down a replacement for (in Germany) and therefore no, not injection. It's a 4 speed manual with overdrive that is surprisingly quiet on tickover and howls when the loud pedal is applied. It's also the sort of car that people expect to see driven by old boys with beards or wax jackets so the combination of a heavy right foot, cheap tyres and lots of opposite lock gets many funny looks!

Unfortunately it has not had much use since I bought it as the previous owner mangled the sender unit aperture in the fuel tank getting it out to clear a blockage, so the first time I filled the 20 gallon fuel tank, all but 2 gallons leaked out on the floor

I got a secondhand tank for

And as much as I love the Furby, the TD PDI engine just doesn't do it for me like a big V6 sound

That said, Chevy V8s and Jag V12s sound better still - but then you're getting into gallons-per-mile territory!!!

Whats the performance like? Are they firberglass?

Outdated technology so not fast by modern standards but:

135 BHP

175 lb/ft

9.5 sec 0-60

130 mph

Gte's are cool, i dig the wolfrace slotmags on them looks very nice. What colour is it? The back ones are nice but rare, I dont like the poo brown colour reliant did.

It's "champagne" which in truth is a non-metallic ivory colour. With a similar coloured velour (mmmm, seventies-mungous) and dark tan leather interior

One of my Dads mates who used to run a pub down Essex way had a Scimitar GTC, sounded lovely.

Dad owned a GTE (Grand Touring Estate) Scimitar but it was a 3 litre, it was the same engine that was out of the old Granada 3.0. Very quick because of the weight but it was the mucky brown colour. Sounded nice on full chat but not blisteringly fast compaired to today's standards.

Brand new fuel tank, brand new carb, and almost straight away, fitted a Pipercross bolt-on filter. It already has a stainless twin exhaust system, so as you can magine, it sounds