Those of you who are aware of my soap opera from my other thread know that I threw a rod in my 1986 XJS and I am doing an LS3 conversion.

I do not have the time or means to part out this engine, so rather than selling it as $50 of scrap metal, it is free to anyone who wants it. So if you need a doner V12 engine, its all yours.

Some caveats:

I will not ship it. If you want to arrange for a shipper to pick it up...fine with me. The engine is in a shop and I will not be there to help with logistics though, but I am sure my mechanic will help out.

I cannot send you specific parts from it. Once again it is in a shop and I am not going to pay them to remove stuff. The whole engine or nothing I am afraid.

The engine will be pulled next week. That is when it will be available.

I am sure my shop would rather not be stubbing their toes on this for too long, so you will need to get it out of there within a few weeks.

 

do you have a picture? did the rod break and punch though the block?

 

It did not punch through the block, if you were to just look at it it looks like a great engine. However, once it starts, the knocking sound will fill your ears.

It looks pretty clean from the outside:

 

thanks! millage? Oil Pressure at cold start?

 

Mileage is 74k.

Oil pressure at cold start...no idea. Did i mention I drove this car for one day before I threw the rod; about twelve miles. I have started the car exactly once.

 

that is the sadist thing I have heard in a long time (automotive wise)

 

this would make for an awesome coffee table

 

 

Hehe. I bet you wouldn't move that very often though.

 

it is a lot lighter with out the steel crank and steel rods and the heads and on and on...

 

i would love this for my office. i just need to figure out a means of getting it here without spending an arm and a leg

 

looks like you are missing 12 bottles in it :-)

 

OOOOOch!!!


1. Spun a bearing or two. Connecting rod/s stayed on the journal.
aka burnt a bearing or more...
2. Threw a rod. Rod busted and stayed in the crankcase. Engine quit.


3. Cut or sawed it in two!!! Racing terminology. Huge holes in block and sump. Engine quit...


1 & 2 fixable at great $'s.


3. Done for. strip off the ancillaries and scrap the rest. Alloy prices
might not be all that bad!!! Defray the costs of the Ls1!!!


Carl