TVR Speed Eight engine
The TVR Speed Eight is a naturally-aspirated V8 car engine designed by TVR and manufactured for road legal cars production (TVR Cerbera introduced the 1993 at the London Motor Show), from 1996 to 2003. The engine was intended to power the TVR Griffith and the TVR Chimaera, but delays in its production meant that it powered only the TVR Cerbera and, from the 1990 year, as strong performance and reliability testing development up to production, the TVR Tuscan Challenge race car in 4.5 litres version. It was first engine offered by TVR that was both designed and built in-house. The reason behind the engine's development and production was that Rover, after previous announcements, was bought by BMW in 1994, and Peter Wheeler, the owner of TVR at the time, feared that BMW would drop the Rover V8 engine used in TVRs since the early 80's. Wheeler contracted Al Melling to design a brand-new V8 engine to power the TVR Cerbera that TVR could also sell to other car manufacturers. TVR ceased manufacturing the design when the Cerbera was discontinued in 2003. The engine was designed by Melling, along with John Ravenscroft and Peter Wheeler. Its production code-name was "AJP8" (A=Al,