Blacked Out and Lowered
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Blacked Out and Lowered
I have a lowly 2007 XK and wanted to sport it up a bit.
1) removed muffler, replacing it with straight pipes. Saved 30lbs of weight and it roars.
2) removed ughly Ford Taurus grill bar and replaced with Mina's top and bottom grill.
3) Plasti dipped window trim flat black. (harder than it looks on youtube)
4) painted rear trunk "Jaguar" moulding gloss black.
5) removed the Sentas cosmetic 8mm wheel bolts (15 per wheel) for painting
and painted the wheels gloss black
6) painted brake calipers red
7) Lowered the car about 1" with H&R springs. No scraping and made ride only slightly tighter. Nice!
Getting a lot of attention now. Not your grandpas Jag any longer!
1) removed muffler, replacing it with straight pipes. Saved 30lbs of weight and it roars.
2) removed ughly Ford Taurus grill bar and replaced with Mina's top and bottom grill.
3) Plasti dipped window trim flat black. (harder than it looks on youtube)
4) painted rear trunk "Jaguar" moulding gloss black.
5) removed the Sentas cosmetic 8mm wheel bolts (15 per wheel) for painting
and painted the wheels gloss black
6) painted brake calipers red
7) Lowered the car about 1" with H&R springs. No scraping and made ride only slightly tighter. Nice!
Getting a lot of attention now. Not your grandpas Jag any longer!
Last edited by hawaii; 11-10-2013 at 09:40 PM.
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Yes a shop installed them for me and said they were quite hard to install. He has a very expensive wall mounted spring compressor and he said it was at it's limits and he was glad I didn't try to do it on my own with the cheap spring clamp compressors.
Spacers maybe next. I believe for a 2007 XK they are 25mm fronts and 15mm rears.
Haven't tried Maui's twistys yet, but i'm sure there will be less wallow and body roll! Thirty eight miles of twistys up to 10,000ft to the top of Mt Haleakala.
Last edited by hawaii; 10-25-2013 at 07:38 PM.
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Very well done. Good taste to keep the wheel rivets bright - gives the wheels more texture than all black.
I have done nearly all of your mods to my R (drop, spacers (on stock wheels but not the aftermarket ones), open exhaust, blacked out rear Jag, red calipers are stock. I just posted a message about powdercoating my wheels too! You are right its not grandpa's XK! My car sounds like a monster quite literally. And its like an event when I drive it. I am amazed how many people take pics, gawk or yell out at me.
There are times I want to sell it because I miss having a 3rd pedal. But every time I get back in and drive I remember why I bought it. It just ticks so many boxes!
I have done nearly all of your mods to my R (drop, spacers (on stock wheels but not the aftermarket ones), open exhaust, blacked out rear Jag, red calipers are stock. I just posted a message about powdercoating my wheels too! You are right its not grandpa's XK! My car sounds like a monster quite literally. And its like an event when I drive it. I am amazed how many people take pics, gawk or yell out at me.
There are times I want to sell it because I miss having a 3rd pedal. But every time I get back in and drive I remember why I bought it. It just ticks so many boxes!
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