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To: Impala64ssa
Heard about those conversions. Seems like sacrilege to defile a Jag XKE, doing that.

A relative cheapo like a Triumph or "maybe" an AH, perhaps.

Still, bet anyone that did that is still kicking themselves for ruining the investment they had.

6 posted on 02/03/2018 10:52:58 PM PST by doorgunner69 (Give me the liberty to take care of my own security..........)
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To: doorgunner69

I’m not sure there are many XKEs with American V8 conversions. Mostly it was done to later Jag XJs because their resale value was so low (due to poor reliability).


8 posted on 02/03/2018 10:59:09 PM PST by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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To: doorgunner69
The 4 cylinder wet sleeve engine in the TRs were noted for leaking oil. You could tell ANY British car, since they liked to mark their spot. You had to wind the dog sh!t out of the engine to cruise in the US. They redlined at 5000 rpm, and that was 100 mph.

Drop in a small block Chevy, like a 283, and it would loaf along at 90...

When you get west of the Hudson, in Indian country, you used to see hundreds of miles long stretches of open road... TR-3s, TR-4s and 4As with blown engines, (Engine bearings were notoriously thin.), were cheap, light, had good suspensions, and had the room for a small block.

You could get sets of oversized bearings from Warshawsky's, out of Chicago. After turning the crank shaft mains and the con rod bearings down for the third time, a V8 started looking good...

11 posted on 02/03/2018 11:13:30 PM PST by jonascord (First rule of the Dunning-Kruger Club is that you do not know you are in the Dunning-Kruger club.)
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