a very special P38

996TURBO · Apr 23, 2012

Went to UK 2 weeks ago to bring back that very special P38 to France.

This a JE Engineering converted with a 5.0 supercharged engine (330bhp when it was 4.8). Quick car.

Brakes have been converted back to OEM. I'm fitting bigger ones soon.

There's some very special handling modifications such as new antiroll bar mounts and a watt parallelogram along with gaz shocks.

Interior is full leather from ground to dashboard and even to headliner with separate seats in the back.
Rear screens and wood coach work too.

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Datatek · Apr 23, 2012

I like the leather trim although the red piping would be a bit out of place on my car.
I bet that engine drinks fuel.

996TURBO · Apr 23, 2012

20-22 mpg on english roads, 16 on highway at 150+ km/h and 14 mpg on paris suburb roads...

Clarky130 · Apr 23, 2012

Damn... that is one nice P38 :5bdrool5:

Need to make the pics bigger, though, I can hardly see them...

egor8384 · Apr 23, 2012

It only had the money ::5bdrool5::5bdrool5:

freemonkey · Apr 23, 2012

Did land rover make a limited edition called a Vitesse with that leather seats think it was a us spec

jt_armstrong · Apr 23, 2012

I must say I do like the interior but would like to know more on the engine / gearbox. Can you tell us more?

martynv8 · Apr 24, 2012

Yeah!!! thats inspiring. Would love to know more about this. Do you know how many they made?

996TURBO · Apr 24, 2012

I have the original invoice from JE and it goes up to 89.895 over the original price of the 4.6 HSE.

About the engine/gearbox. Engine is a top hat linered block of 5.0 with forged pistons for supercharged application.

Last owner bypassed the supercharged button so the supercharger is constantly in charge. We'll go back to factory for that.

There's 2 additional rads in place of the foglights.

Some very special cats to but we will decatt it very soon to make it breath.

It breaths well with a ITG big foam filter and a special sealed airbox.

Gearbox is the standard 4HP24 and from the book i have that beast destroyed 2 of those during 126.000 miles.

996TURBO · Apr 24, 2012

Sometimes luxury isn't enough. Hopefully we love leather and wood here

kooky_guy · Apr 24, 2012

Any engine bay pics?

996TURBO · Apr 24, 2012

andya · Apr 24, 2012

What a nice P38 stunning interior and I thought the vogue 50 was a nice car

MrGorsky · Apr 24, 2012

freemonkey said:
Did land rover make a limited edition called a Vitesse with that leather seats think it was a us spec

They did, only available in 1997.

From RangeRovers.net....

4.6 HSE Vitesse Edition: The Vitesse Edition models cost $3,000 more than the standard HSE were painted AA Yellow & Monza Red. Vitesse is French for “Speed”. The AA Yellow and Monza Red editions (see photos below) were the same except for the colors. They had all the standard HSE items and ash black leather seats with yellow or red piping . The side mirrors and lower part of the front bumper were painted body color and they has a “blackout grille” (darker plastic than the grills on other models). The inside door handles were chrome rather than black (chrome interior door handles were on all 2000-2002 Range Rover HSEs). The Vitesse came standard with the 300-watt 10 amp Harmon Kardon 12-speaker sound system with “parametric equalization” and “active dual-driver subwoofer”. A total of 100 to 150 of each color were sold made (Land Rover Special Edition Brochure from 1997 said a total of 250 of the red and yellow “high impact color” Vitesse editions would be produced). Land Rover sold very few yellow Range Rovers and other than the 1997 Vitesse the only other yellow P38 Range Rovers were a small number of non-Vitesse AA yellow Range Rovers in 1997, the special TReK competition models and the Borego Edition in 2002.

Vitesse is French for speed!

dave4x4 · Apr 25, 2012

Hell! Thats a nice car Flo. Those engine castings look superb.
Would look nice getting them professionally polished.
A car to keep I think and bring up to concours condition.

Dave

StuckAgainSteve · Apr 26, 2012

Cool, must be putting out some serous torque to knacker two usually very robust 4HP24s.

a very special P38

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