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5.3 V12 Jaguar lump per chance?
Fozzie 
i think so
A wee bit too wide and too tall for the 'standard' locost.........
Fozzie
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Originally posted by Fozzie
A wee bit too wide and too tall for the 'standard' locost.........
Fozzie
LOL.....
Fozzie
I may be wrong but I think Robin Hood did it years ago with a monocoque chassis. Scarey stuff indeed. I don't think they ever put it into production.
I am not sure that Jaguar got it fully sorted either!
No, its a pretty sorted engine, but the electrics were complete and utter sh*te......and not cheap to rebuild ............and most definately not in
the 'locost' ethos........it was very good in its day.....(apart from electrics...lol), and a very smooth engine.
Fozzie
It should be smooth, 12 cylinders and only kicking out about 53 horses per litre combined with a crank heavier than most car engines and a gigantic flywheel/torque converter hung on the end. Looked like it would be more at home behind a prop in some WW2 plane than in a car, it completely filled the XK engine bay, removing knuckles from anybody foolhardy enough to try and do any sort of service task. Does look nice though.
My mates who had 3 between them at one point (5.3 v12 XJSs) had plenty of problems with their engines - I think mark is right - jag never properly got
them sorted. They all had leaking crank seals (rope apparently until the later engines) and on one memroable chase across Oxforshire at the end of
summer I was trailling a short way behind one fo the 5.3s in my 3.6 AJ6 engined XJS (far superior!) and one bank totally let go on my mates car in
front, oxfordshire disappeared in a cloud of smoke!
Could happen to any engine I know but I'd rather go the AJ6 engine with any of the goodies from AJ6 engineering bolted on over the v12
anytime.....
Geoff
I think it must be remembered that the Jag v12 engine was built in the reign of British leyland. So jaguar probably never got enough money or time to sort out the problems.
Didn't Luego have one on their show stand in a Viento a couple of years ago?? Stafford I think.
Don't forget the engine was designed in the late 50s early 60s . But then again most of the leyland engines were. Changed a couple of alternators in E types, at least you could sit on the wheel to do most of the job .
Yup rusty you are right!.....they didn't have the electronic wizardry that is available now.
They go brilliantly on a set of IDA's......but not particularly 'Locost'.......LOL
I think you have to be 'into' the pre 1970's motors like the 'old dinosaur' I am to appreciate 'em......
IMHO that engine would suit more of a Cobra/Viper type kit than a 'sevenesque' though.....
Fozzie