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Sep 26th, 2020, 22:46 | #1781 | |
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The Wikipedia article saves me a lot of typing and explains in greater detail although some areas seem contradictory of others within the same article. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaguar_AJ6_engine Count yourself lucky you didn't have the other baby of the bunch, the 2.9 - basically a destroked, debored 3.6 with a head from a V12 grafted on so only SOHC 12 valve instead of a 24 valve lump. Skins, grannies, pull, toilets and rice puddings come to mind for the 2.9 version! In whatever guise, the Jag straight 6 is not only a great piece of engineering but an amazing work of art Alan. As for your trip to Norfolk for Bobs conjugal rights i think the RB would be a very good choice. He might relax more on the way there and on the way back, maybe there's an alternative route that is more single carriage A-roads than dual carriageway so you could get a good comparison of different economy on those two different styles of driving?
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I sold the XJ40 to a mate - only because he wanted it (Jag enthusiast) after a couple of years. The car I had next had an equally impressive 24v straight 6: Toyota Supra - now what a car that was! Last edited by Othen; Sep 27th, 2020 at 07:41. |
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This was the standard piece of advice proffered by garages to repmobile drivers when the engine started to get noisy - usually tappets, sometimes impending bearing failure was the culprit. Only when the radio was turned up to 11 would they do something about the underlying fault!
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The Toyota straight 6 was indeed another superb engine, i'm a bit hazy but wasn't that the 5MGE engine? I had the older Celica, first of the pop-up headlamp models that spawned the Celica Supra, the forerunner of the one you had. Celica Supra 2.8i ^^^^^ spawned from : .... the 1982 Celica ^^^^^ near identical to mine except the handlebars are on the wrong side! Only a 2.0 in mine but still a nice engine.
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Thank you for that Toyota lineage. I can't remember the engine designation, but it was also a thing of great beauty. Alan |
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The other thing was it used the XK block for the 2.9, basically a reworked XK 2.8 and i suspect they were left over from the Series I XJ 2.8s, another short-lived model with the 4.2 being the most popular.
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https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1989-TOYO...8AAOSw0X5fXRk0 ... I'll watch it (no Satan, don't make me buy this car!). PS. That is odd: no MoT history for that car (just the current one); I'm guessing it has been off the road for at least 10 years in that case. Last edited by Othen; Sep 28th, 2020 at 15:01. |
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FEEDBACK FROM BUYER/PRICE WHEN Car not described as it is faults left off and one engine fault that the seller https://www.ebay.co.uk/fdbk/feedback...p2047675.l2560 In fairness that's his only negative feedback in the past year but how many 1988 Jaguar XK8s do you know of?
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