Severely OT: Jaguar Forums?, Downright blasphemous! |
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Severely OT: Jaguar Forums?, Downright blasphemous! |
Andy |
May 2 2005, 12:05 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 106 Joined: 25-September 03 From: Fort Collins, CO Member No.: 1,194 |
So here's the blasphemous part - the teener just went away to make room for a ~40k mile Jaguar V12 XJS convertible. So not only is it an English boat of a water-pumper, it's a huge Concours Weenie vehicle too!
In my defense, my 914 never ran in my ownership, I bought it from a guy who was going to make it electric and never found the time, I was going to make it a V8 car but never found time, the new owner wants to make a racer (hopefully he has more time (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif)). The Jag was Dad's mid-life crisis car, I have a lot of good memories of the car and really didn't want to see it go away after Dad died last summer... So I kept it. So mechanicals are backing up on me (Always have with this thing), I have the room again to start fixing things, are there any good Jaguar Boards? I know I can't expect to find anything as good as 914club (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/smile.gif) , but is there anything worthwhile? Thanks in advance! -Andy PS Found jcna.com (one XJS post a week!) and jag-lovers.org (kinda cumbersome layout). |
lapuwali |
May 3 2005, 05:32 PM
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Not another one! Group: Benefactors Posts: 4,526 Joined: 1-March 04 From: San Mateo, CA Member No.: 1,743 |
The V12 is a pretty robust engine. So is the six-cylinder, for that matter. The problem with Jags has never really been the engine itself, which is why I find the whole Chevy conversion idea misguided. For a long time, Jag had serious problems with suppliers of electrical and hydraulic parts, which the engine swap doesn't fix. Lucas from the 50s to the early 80s used the cheapest crap available, which is why all of the (perfectly justified) jokes about Lucas arose. By the mid-80s, they'd shaped up sufficiently that they could nearly rival the Japanese in reliability. Today, their stuff is fine, except for the "vintage repro" stuff they made, which they reproduce all too well. How a roomful of engineers who lived in a wet climate expected bare brass-plated connectors to last longer than 12 months is entirely beyond me. Perhaps they were all sailors and expected you to polish the corrosion off the connectors constantly, just like they had to do on all of the brass fittings on their boats... Jags were also famous for leaky power-steering racks, until the factory finally took a hard line with suppliers in the mid-80s. |
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