Fixed that for you, but unfortunately, people will conclude that they're a nightmare to work on. Well, they are, if they're just blindly pulled apart, and put together having no factory manual...

 

Thanks for the fix.... while rather obvious, I was trying to be gentle.....

 

Sorry, wasn't pointed at you personally, I was just being over dramatic about how any car can be made to look terrible by picking and choosing how it's presented.

 

And what a state it's in when it's bought!

 

I left a comment:
I hope that Jag indexed and sized their connectors uniquely. On a Honda K-series, the throttle sensor and MAP sensors are near each other, and both connectors are the same exact 3-wire parts, but pinned different. Get them swapped - which is very easy to do - and you fry the MAP sensor. I only mention this because he's plugging in stuff left and right without regard for what's going where, assuming each goes to the connector that it's near. That's "almost" always true...

 

Yep, it's apparent from that latest vid that he did some research this time, well at least quite a few torque specs, so maybe he checked those connectors as well.

 

 

Is this guy real?
I can't tell if he's serious or if he's doing a character... or maybe a bit of both.

 

I reckon it's as you and others have commented before, he is deliberately hamming it up and playing dumb to generate more views.
I for one would like to have seen more detailed wrenching on the engine and the car but he skips through nearly all of that, I suspect because he has several assistants doing most of the real work.
Not impressed by his initial comments in this latest episode about the SC coupler, I have never read of it being a protective fail-safe designed to shear in half and he doesn't mention why it rattles in the first place.
And as I said before I wonder if we will ever find out what failed and why on the original engine.

 

I love his statement near the end, "It should not be misfiring, everything's new"
Yet, I keep watching!

 

Someone beat me to it!

 

Not sure when installing a different engine came to mean "installing a new engine." Not the same thing. I wonder how that "new" engine ended up for sale in the first place. Did the car that it was in get wrecked, or did it end up in a wrecking yard due to the engine failing? Buying a used engine with a guaranty simply means that they'll give you another engine (of equally unknown history) if it's bad, YOU have to do the uninstall and reinstall yourself. But hey, if he bought a Jag F-Type in good condition, he wouldn't have as dramatic a story to up his views. If he installed a remanufactured engine, he wouldn't have as dramatic a story to up his views. If he did a fully documented and detailed install, he wouldn't have as dramatic a story to up his views. And so on...

And yes, I am kind of down on YouTubers, suspecting that many have essentially sold their souls in a sad grasp for money, putting contrived drama ahead of actual, real, progress.

 

I believe you are absolutely right. There has to be a great deal of drama surrounding this project and with that comes the bashing and blame which , of course, is never their fault and always is attributed to a manufacturer. Just to be clear here, this drama plays out in a number of rebuilders videos on YT who with a lot of fanfare just dive in and rip out an engine without any plan/knowledge of what they are doing. This is all done with the attitude of how hard can this be? This is simple, will have this done today, this is no problem except only to get to the end of the episode and voilà a problem appears but that is saved for the next episode which will certainly remedy the problem.

What counts is how many views and comments does the episode generate and can that be sustained and increased. That will dictate how long this torturous episode will continue.

 

Yes…while doing the install, I was listening and did not hear a word about pulling a vacuum on the cooling system before filling the cooling system….and first thought when he said it was running rough at the END of the test drive…anutha blown gasket/cracked head…
Did not mention anything about cooling fan ops during/after the test drive….

oyva,

max, XKRFACE, The Tramp & Tres

 

It's not just Jags, if you buy any car as a wreck (and that F-Type was certainly in a very bad way) and then bodge away at it, it won't end well.

 

Oh yes, that's sort of my point, that you can make any car look bad by cherry picking how it's presented. Pick a bad car to start with, install an unknown engine, and when it fails, everyone will say, "well that car model or brand sucks." Maybe, and maybe not. It's a perfect example of confirmation bias, where people can decide ahead of time on their desired conclusion, then pick parts, videos, installations, etc, that make it happen. With YouTubers, they purposely select issues that generate drama - real or contrived - because it makes them money. Period.

I think I earlier used the example of Ford Mustangs, how every YTer has piled on, putting up videos of the cars losing control leaving car meets. Do Mustangs really have a design flaw? That's what a lot of comments seem to support, yet the reality is that you put a 20-something in any car with enough power to smoke the tires, cherry pick those who lose control, and presto "all Mustangs suck." Um, no.

 

I made a comment on his video. The original motor was running a VAP pulley on the SC (at least) and cannot recall if perhaps crank pulley too. If true, that means the ECU is also tuned. It does not appear he transferred over either the SC or Crank pulley to the new motor. So if he is running a modified tune file still on the ECU (which I am assuming he did not flash back to stock) this too could be part of his issues.

 

Oh yeah, that's a very good point, though he may miss your comment if it gets too far buried.

I find the steam concerning. Since he removed the exhaust during the swap, I'd expect that at some point he tipped them so any water would run out. If so, wonder if he's checked the coolant level yet.

 

 

Confirmed it has a tune per the DTC P167-F and the much louder than stock SC whine, so skizot wins the Internet today!
Not sure where he gets the idea it has a (now dead) lithium start/stop battery, as we know the OEM batteries both the primary and secondary are AGM and who in their right mind would renew the secondary battery with a lithium one, but other than that bit of weirdness a better vid this time.