Yes you are right they are rare now mine being a Daimler they did'nt make as many as Jaguar so leaning towards putting into the XJS.

 

Wilfred, just wondering how things are going?? Is your car still working perfectly? Got all the little things finished? Any pics of the finished project? I found this a very interesting thread.

Cheers,
Richard.

 

No, car is ruined...

I lend it to a neighbour for his wedding. I don't know the chap, but he came walking over when I was picking up groceries from the boot. Asked me to use the car for his wedding.

I was fine with that. Unfortunately he drove into something, and ruined the radiator. Lost all coolant, yet drove on!!!!! moron.

I am in the process of fixing it right now, and working on some rust issues at the same time.

copy from other forum:

took of left wing yesterday, and removed rear and front window. to my suprise, there was only 1 little hole behind the window seals!

The only little hole behind the window seals (the bigger rust in the background is not crucial. Will weld this, but I knew this already)


other window frames:










Shame...dirty hands on my new headliner. I hope I can clean this a bit.... idiot me.

 

Well i bet that didn't make your day!! Good luck on the re-restoration.

 

No, but I like the idea that I have the opportunity to work on the rust now. There were some spots that had bothered me since I had the car.

On the plus side, the months before my neighbour crashed the car, I drove it daily. Ran absolutely brilliant! Started great, ran great. really excellent motoring.
that is what inspired my to work on the rust to keep the looks in line with performance!

 

Hey Wilfred,
Damn nice garage you have there! What are the other cars you have hidden away there?
Bill

 

Lots! :-)



no, not mine. I rent the place (dirt cheap) with lot of other car guys. All the equipment I need at hand. I just started renting it this month. I dit the engine swap in an old barn, but this is so much better:




the only other car I have is this:


In the past months, when I was offline here, I put a 1.9 TDI diesel engine from a 2000 VW passat in here. Just finished it last week.

that is why I didn't have time to fix the jag, although it had been broken for a month already.

 

Hi Wilfed, sorry to hear about the damage after following your engine transplant in the barn from the start. The new rental garage looks like a great spot.

Another brave project on the VW.

 

Slick in both places. "neither a lender nor a borrower be" ? Sounds great, but in practice??? Friendship with neighbor a thing of the past? Or has he manned up and pitched in to fix?


Kombi!!


At one time, swapping in Corvair sixes was the thing. I almost bought one nicely done, cheap. It's DIY owner disgusted with CA's DMV. Could not register it!!


Sure is nice to have the proper work space. My car is on the jack and jack stands ion the driveway, facing out ! I should not complain, it could be far worse. Another starter to swap out. !/2 done. old/new on the bench, another OTW!


Carl

 

Good work, keep swinging.


Carl

 

Nice work, neat shop. Nice Kombi!

 

Nice work on both. Nice stable.


Carl

 

That is a lot of posts, Carl :-)

But thanks!

 

nice work, you guys call the VW bus a Kombi, we call them a Vanagon!

as usual i may have been ahead of the curve ,back around 1985, a customer came into my engine shop, he had a relativly new VW bus, in the mountains of central USA, he blew up the VW diesel engine, but it was the second engine from VW, he asked if i had anything could be done to make it reliable in the hills!
after some thought i had an ISUZU 4cylinder 1.8L diesel engine setting around.

well conversion was not complicated ,using the bus transmission, all went well,BUT not enough power, i had a turbocharger laying around, fabbed up a manifold put it together.
he was off to the mountains, called me couple months later saying car runs great and sure can climb hills better(without blowing up).
IZuzu had oil jet piston cooling from the factory.

add to the conversions of that era, we also installed a Cadillac diesel into a 1984 Corvette, never heard from again.

 

Wilfred:


Just went "nuts" on the posts, thought I had lost it.


Cad into Corvette!!! At one time, a niche was in replacing failed Cadillac and Olds diesels with gas engines.


My barber a coupe of decades ago, had a nice Cad, diesel powered. When the second crank busted, he was done with it. I could've had it free or for a couple of C notes.
No room on my plate at the time. But, I did envisage an LT1 implant and no SMOG inspections. What DMV didn't know wouldn't hurt them!!


Carl

 

Installing the 1.9 TDI itself is not that hard. There are certain types of bellhousings you can bolt to the box and that will bolt straight onto modern diesel engine from volkswagen.

however, the original gears are very short. So you will do 6o mph (100kph) at 3000 revs. That is too much for a diesel.

So I decided to also use the box from a 2000 VW passat. However, as the engine is in the back of the kombi, that would result in 5 reverse gears and 1 forward. So I flipped the box. It is now upside down in the van.

To get all that in the right place just takes time welding up brackets and ****. Also installing a cooling system. The original engine is aircooled, while the TDI needs a radiator.

It is not very complicated, just a lot of little things. Hopefully I will make first highway drive tomorrow!

after that, it is all JAG time again!

 

Hey, Wilfred, nice to see you here!
Never knew you had a VW bus, as we call it.
Keep up the good work, flipping gearboxes and the lot, mind, if you flip the engine, be sure to install an oil pump somewhere around the head.


Topsyturvy

 

Oh, yeah, flipping the box was one way to do the Corvair install. Corvairs being CCW


And, Corvairs were installed in early Beetles and early "simple" Porches. The solution there was tyo split the box and swap the pinion to the other side of the ring gear.


Way back when, Pal Bob T. bought a nice but slightly smashed beetle of about 61 vintage. At the time, I had a 56. I had swapped in a used box as the one it came with had less than the required number of teeth on the ring gear!!


Bob hire out his for an axle swap, the one it came with was bent. It was left in front of his house. Bob was perplexed. Four gears in reverse sand one forward!!! He musta thought I was a genius when I suggested his "hire" had put the box together b'wards.


Never told him of another pal's similar adventure much ealier witht he rear axle of his 28 Ford A!!


Hope to resolve the starter devour issues on my Jaguar today or in the next few. another one delivered via USPS yesterday!!


Carl

 

small world just sold a Corvair 4carb. engine ,bought it from a guy for $200.bucks and sold it month later for $1000. bucks.

they were great motors,shame GM stopped making them ,along with Fiero, along with pontiac,and Oldsmobile,sometimes i wonder whats happening in with the auto industry?

 

Yes, That flat six was a great design. Ralph Nader, nothing but a spoiler. And, not only that, cost Al Gore, the presidency. Not that I thought Al Gore was all that great.


In about 64, I bought a used 63 Monza with four on the floor and the two carb engine.
A blast to drive. A poor man's Porsche. Several followed. The last one a 65 Turbo.
Fun, but messed up by PO's and time. Still got it to howl. It really needed a fifth gear.


They still have a loyal following, evidenced by your sale of a desired version. ,


Carl