The TVR 450 SEAC is a sports car designed and built by
TVR in a one-year only run. It used the same body style as the
420 SEAC but was fibreglass compared with the Aramid Composite (Glassfibre and Kevlar) body of the 420 and the same chassis. The only difference was the engine which grew to 4,5 litres and about and 435 Nm torque. As a consequence though the 450 SEAC was even more expensive to build and buy than the already expensive 420 SEAC, so about 17 were made. Curiously, rumour has it that more SEAC's are on the road now than were manufactured in the first place, that is because many wedges were converted to 450 SEAC spec afterwards.
Specifications
Engine
*Engine: TVR Power
Rover V8
The Rover V8 engine is a compact V8 internal combustion engine with aluminium cylinder block and cylinder heads, originally designed by General Motors and later re-designed and produced by Rover in the United Kingdom. It has been used in a wide ...
*Engine capacity: 4441 cc (4.4L)
*Power Output:
*Torque Output:
Transmission
*Transmission: five speed gearbox (Borg Warner T5)
Chassis/Body
*Chassis: Tubular
spaceframe
In architecture and structural engineering, a space frame or space structure ( 3D truss) is a rigid, lightweight, truss-like structure constructed from interlocking struts in a geometric pattern. Space frames can be used to span large areas with ...
*Body:
Fibreglass
Fiberglass (American English) or fibreglass (Commonwealth English) is a common type of fiber-reinforced plastic using glass fiber. The fibers may be randomly arranged, flattened into a sheet called a chopped strand mat, or woven into glass clo ...
reinforced with
kevlar
Kevlar (para-aramid) is a strong, heat-resistant synthetic fiber, related to other aramids such as Nomex and Technora. Developed by Stephanie Kwolek at DuPont in 1965, the high-strength material was first used commercially in the early 1970s a ...
one piece body
Performance
*Acceleration 0- : 4,5 seconds
*Top speed:
External links
the SEAC pages
{{TVR road car timeline
450 SEAC
Sports cars
Rear-wheel-drive vehicles
Cars introduced in 1988
Cars discontinued in 1989