While I have yet to bloody my car with roadkill, I also don't agree it should be babied and only trotted out on sunny weekends.
My car's had a long list of repairs it's needed.
Not one of them, as far as I can understand the workings, is a problem with the V12 engine itself. Leaking coolant hoses, leaking brakes, bad transmission, wonky aircon, and so on. Even the coolant temperature worries are more the result of low (leaking) coolant and the sheer fact of there being a V12, rather than a problem with the engine as such.

 

Agreed. Since I read a journalist's painful journey with a VW Phaeton W12 that was in the shop for three months, I know that the Jaguar V12 is a comparably manageable beast. I bought my daily XJ-S last summer after it sat in a garage for 15 years, replaced most of the cooling system and ignition system and now she runs like she should, even in freezing Minnesota temperatures.

30 years from now I will be drooling oat meal in a nursing home. So I decided to have some fun here and now. Ride or die.

 

“Classic”

 

the proper name of that type V12 early Jaguar engine ,is a HERON chamber engine!

to add to this sillyness, ever wonder why the HE is called a FIREBALL chamber,( MAY was researching combustion chambers in Switzerland, Jag called and said they need something efficent!

the best May could come up with was the DAVID BUICK / GM and the Famous Buick FIREBALL engine, by the way it swirled the combustion process into a Fireball(very good idea). HE is a modified version of it!(maybe why GM let him use it if he called it fireball?)

the major reason GENERAL motors bought out Buick, was for there up and coming new 6 cylinder inline engine,Chevrolet, with modified fireball.

if you know what your looking at you will understand, inlet on right valve, exhaust recessed on left side, they run extrmely hot in comb. chamb.

burned valves like going out of style.

ron

 

I thought the Fireball orignated from old cracked fuel lines.

 

Nah, that was the Marelli ignition system.