Rover V8 engine size???

Rover V8 engine size???

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trevbeadle

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37 posts

206 months

Friday 2nd August 2013
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Help!
I have a 1987 TVR 350i with a Rover V8 (standard TVR fit), the V5 from DVLA shows the engine size as 3498cc, engine number 37A00715C! My insurance company queried this when I first insured it, they said 'surely you mean 3528cc, that's the early V8 engine size?'. I can find no Rover engine of 3498cc....any ideas?



Trev

tonys

1,080 posts

230 months

Friday 2nd August 2013
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Found this reference to 3498cc

http://www.racingsportscars.com/type/photo/Morgan/...

No personal knowledge though

davepoth

29,395 posts

206 months

Saturday 10th August 2013
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Kudos to your insurance company for knowing that bit of trivia, by the way.

There is a bit of stuff around the internet suggesting that 3.5 litre may have been a cutoff for some race series, so sometimes it was put down as a 3498cc engine. That may not be true. Either way, I think the DVLA's record is probably wrong.