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Old Feb 7, 2019 | 10:41 PM
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Anyone care to share the differences in their Celebration XJS? Wood steering wheel...walnut console...fuel lines!!!. Please share.
 
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Old Feb 8, 2019 | 02:03 PM
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As far as I am aware it is mainly the following items :

Different wheels
Two tone piping on the leather seats along with leaping cats embossed in the head rest area
Partial wood steering wheel
Celebration hood ornament.

Not sure if there were some unique colors for 1996. The V12 was only available as a special order and as far as I know only a few V12's were produced in 1996. I have always felt that Jaguar missed the mark by not putting the supercharged 4.0L in the 1996 which would have really made the Celebration model stand out. Makes sense why they did not as it would not have looked good having a 6 cylinder making more horse power than either the V12 or the upcoming V8.
 
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Old Feb 8, 2019 | 06:53 PM
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Originally Posted by NOLAxjs1996
Anyone care to share the differences in their Celebration XJS? Wood steering wheel...walnut console...fuel lines!!!. Please share.
ah...fuel lines yes. Its a real headache on previous models when you have to pull over constantly to manually fill the injector rail with fuel. Really wish we pre-1996ers had fuel lines.
 
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Old Feb 9, 2019 | 03:53 AM
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Originally Posted by LuvmyXJS'
As far as I am aware it is mainly the following items :

Different wheels
Two tone piping on the leather seats along with leaping cats embossed in the head rest area
Partial wood steering wheel
Celebration hood ornament.
...and the black hand brake lever with full leather cover.
 
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Old Feb 15, 2019 | 12:16 PM
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Originally Posted by VancouverXJ6
ah...fuel lines yes. Its a real headache on previous models when you have to pull over constantly to manually fill the injector rail with fuel. Really wish we pre-1996ers had fuel lines.
Can you explain the issue with the fuel lines?

Thanks,

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Old Feb 15, 2019 | 04:58 PM
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Default Fuel lines for 1996

The lines are 10mm and 8mm with Legris push on fittings mates to factory crimped lines to threaded fittings...and no one sells them for the 95-96 celebration models. I looked into Legris push on fittings mated to threaded ends (aka adapters) but only found either plastic or parts for SAE sizes, where there is a 0.47mm difference, which is not good for high pressure fuel lines. Contacted Legris, they kicked it around until “Sorry, our engineers can’t solve this” came about. I’m about to just flare the ends and make them compression fittings. Any other solutions are more than welcome.
P.S., I found some high pressure stainless fittings that are $150 for two, and two sizes equals $300...just for adapters. Might just have them rebuilt at a hydraulic shop.
 

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Old Feb 16, 2019 | 08:25 PM
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None of that on mine. I’ll have to take some pics in the daylight.
 
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