Are all 500 engines like this?

[dnb]

I took the sump off my engine last night so I could clean and paint it. And found that my engine has all the parts to be a cross-bolt engine apart from the actual bolts. The bosses in the block are there, but not drilled. It seems a bit odd to me, but it's a TVR so you come to expect these things...

[Jay Ayegees]

Think of the weight saving though.

[steve-V8s]

My 500 is as you discribe.

[spend]

V Common on the blocks for the serpentine versions I think(curiously known as NAS spec it seems). My Disco is the same, outside TVR there are not so many 3.9 serp engines around tho

Dave

[antonyj]

dnb said:

I took the sump off my engine last night so I could clean and paint it. And found that my engine has all the parts to be a cross-bolt engine apart from the actual bolts. The bosses in the block are there, but not drilled. It seems a bit odd to me, but it's a TVR so you come to expect these things...

Pretty sure it is known as the " intermediate" block.
Due to it being inbetween the pre serp and later dizzyless and bolted block.

Dont these blocks also have the larger journals?

Edited by antonyj on Thursday 10th May 17:45

[johno]

I'm lucky in that mine is actually cross bolted, although whether 2 3" or 2 5" I do not know.

Later blocks as I understood it had the provision, not necessarilly the actual bolting ..