RND Speed 12 Gallery Page

Build Photos

These photos can only provide a snapshot of the time and expertise - at the fitting bench, on the drawing board (and the original backs of envelopes...!), and behind the computer screen, that is needed to get a project like this to the point where you see it now. It is also important to realise that whilst development has been speeded up considerably over traditional manual machining by the use of CNC and CAD, there are many things still that technology can't do (or predict..), where the underlying engineering concept either breaks new ground, or else as here uses existing components - the Jaguar V12 bottom end, Speed 6 cylinder heads, etc. - in a re-purposed or novel way.


Block with cylinder heads showing water inlets on heads, plus timing chain tensioners.
Camshafts, timing sprockets, and remaining valve train items still to be assembled.


Front timing cover installed on engine fromt, with damper fitted to cranskshaft nose.


Inside view of the front timing cover. CNC machined from solid aluminium billet.


Cylinder block for RND Speed 12 just after machining.


Flywheel end of RND Speed 12 bottom end.


Ultimate destination for the first RND Speed 12: what is believed to be the only road car produced of TVR's
still-born 712 series.

And Finally ...