Impending V8S purchase

[seb]

FWIW: Mines a J reg V8S, first registered on 15/05/92 and is listed on the V5 as a V8S. It has a G at the end of the engine no.

Steve

[keithyboy]

V5 = 290 S for my 1991 V8S. My engine # also ends in G BUT during the recent rebuild the heads did NOT have big valves. I guess that puts a spanner in the works!!

[JSG]

Dammit, we all seem to have G. We'll just have to revert to "mines faster than yours, na na" then without proof.

There seems to be so many old wives tales about TVR engines that I'm not sure we'll get to the bottom of it.

Weren't we going to take Carzee's engine to bits? What the next VG meet

[shpub]

Here's the most accurate scheme for the engines:

If the first or last letter in the engine number is not in the alphabet it means that the die slipped during production and that this should not be used otherwise if it is a vowel it should be followed by a consonent and may or may not confirm that the engine was made from meatl or not as the case made be.

Any other numbers or letters used are purely co-incidental and confirm that the engine was made.


Much has been made over the numbering and secret code letters including charging extra for big valve engines that were not. Not worth the metal they removed making them.

steve
www.tvrbooks.co.uk

[JSG]

shpub said: Here's the most accurate scheme for the engines:

If the first or last letter in the engine number is not in the alphabet it means that the die slipped during production and that this should not be used otherwise if it is a vowel it should be followed by a consonent and may or may not confirm that the engine was made from meatl or not as the case made be.

Any other numbers or letters used are purely co-incidental and confirm that the engine was made.


Much has been made over the numbering and secret code letters including charging extra for big valve engines that were not. Not worth the metal they removed making them.

steve
www.tvrbooks.co.uk