Scooterotica

tv 200 no igm and tv 1 no igm , as far as i know.

The reason they have a TV2 engine number is because the TV175 series 3 engine casings couldn't take the 200cc barrel, but, the series 2 TV175 engine casings could, so they made a decision to use series 2 TV175 casings.


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bristolmod wrote:

gix wrote:TV2 followed by numbers starting 512*** the only made 14,982


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TV200 and TV175 were made in batches and its impossible to say which numbers were allocated to which. TV200 apparently started at 512*** onwards and TV175 started at 500000 (Scootopia had 500010 a while back!)

Its impossible to say, for example, that 524186 was a 200 or a 175.

I don't know how the frame numbers sequence worked but doing 512000 + 14982 the last TV200 should be 526982 but my TV200 starts with 54.... as several others so yes they were built at the same time.

gix wrote:The reason they have a TV2 engine number is because the TV175 series 3 engine casings couldn't take the 200cc barrel, but, the series 2 TV175 engine casings could, so they made a decision to use series 2 TV175 casings.


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do you mean that a Series 2 TV175 engine could accept a 225 barrel with no modifications?!

no?

numbers of TV200 and TV175 did not run consecutively. i.e. between 500000 and 55**** 175 and 200's were mixed up- there was not a complete run of 14982 TV200's. Hence the earliest 200 was around 512*** and the last around 55****. In between were batches of TV175's.

gix wrote:no?

I don't know never tried and I ask

I tried to stick an SX200 barrel on a TV175 casing on the night of November 23rd 1970.

It was about an hour before any of the three people present thought to check the stud pattern with the head and found them to be different.

I was 16 on the 24th and was hoping to get my TV175 basket case on the road.

You live and learn.

DigDug wrote:I tried to stick an SX200 barrel on a TV175 casing on the night of November 23rd 1970.

It was about an hour before any of the three people present thought to check the stud pattern with the head and found them to be different.

I was 16 on the 24th and was hoping to get my TV175 basket case on the road.

You live and learn.

Classic!- have to diagree about "living and learning"- if that was the case we would have outgrown these shopping trollys years ago!

I'm hoping to live a for a bit more yet....

I wouldn't buy one now, that's for sure. There are a lot of wrong ones out there. And you can usually tell.