Esprit

What direction have you/are you going in? I'd stick with OEM, at least then you'll know those corners are unlikely to give any issues for another 15 years or so. Air suspension (and early timing chains) really do seem like the only weaknesses on these cars.

 

XJR passed a milestone...

On 14/03/2022 at 12:42, RUNAMUCK said:

I dont have any examples,

But I'm gonna go on the record now and say that within 6 months some pretty peppy, but very thirsty cars are gonna be for sale for fuck all. 

Its gonna be a buyers market soon.....

Hmm, I'm not so sure. I think most of the interesting peppy thirsty stuff will retain value. Maybe the more garden variety Falcon XR6 stuff might take a bit of a hit but.

7 minutes ago, Sunbeam said:

Can’t see pix

Sorted

Well the old girl still moves.

I've been plugging away at her the last couple of months. Interior has been apart to fix a few niggles, mainly a few things not working or broken plastic clips/vents etc and some poor fitting pieces rectified (through people having it apart and not putting it back together properly, not dodgy English assembly stuff).

New bumper has been repaired and primed ready for paint. New guard and trim bits sourced and ready to go on, now just stripping the front end of badging/trim etc and it's off to the panelbeaters for final fettling and the front end respray. Goes in next week and should be back in time for me to reassemble over Christmas. Peugeot daily is now sold, so need the Jaguar working and in daily duty for next year.

Current spend in total is up to about $4.8k all in, with the respray going to be about $2k, so should be on the road for 7k give or take.

Managed to track down the previous owner who loved the car, was written off when some 80-odd year old woman got the accelerator and brake mixed up in a parking lot and swiped it.

Good news is the previous owner spent about $4k sorting out the suspension a month prior to its accident so the undercarriage / mechanical side of this thing is tip top.

Early Lotus Elise speedo would do nicely. I don't think Pick-a-part have any in at the moment though.

10 minutes ago, Valiant said:

@Esprit can we have a jag up date please?

Does it go hard 4 wat it is?

Are you divorced? 

Is your drive an oily mess?

So many unanswered questions.

@Valiant thanks for the interest!

Sadly nothing to report yet to speak of really. I've begun collecting the bits I need to fix the damage, just need a LH guard/wheelarch and front left indicator light now and I can fit it all together. Front left is stripped and nothing under there is bent or damaged. I've fixed the headlights, and just have to repair an electrical connector that had a pin pulled off in the accident. Have done a couple of other little bits and pieces too, just finding things that don't work and fixing them (something that'll probably be an ongoing battle)

Progress has been slower than anticipated because:

1. I had a baby..... Well, Mrs Esprit had a baby, but it was my sweet direct injection setup that made that happen.

2. I had promised myself that I would get the 2kCup car running again and sold before I got my teeth into the Jaguar. All was going well, got the engine back together, and in and started! Then the brand new cambelt tensioner failed after 2 seconds of running and bent all the intake valves (see below). Swears were said, and owing to point #1 above and my frustration with the Lantis, I've just closed the door on the garage this last couple of months. I'm saving up the play-money to pull the heads off the Lantis and replace the valves, reassemble the engine and hopefully not lunch it a second time.

Rest assured the XJR is still happening, and hopefully in a few months I can move the Lantis onwards and out and then get the Jag on the road for summer cruising.

On 15/02/2021 at 10:23, westy said:

Black edge ‘no lane changing’ sign is guidance only. Only red edge signs and those blue ones with the arrows are compulsory.
99.9999% sure of this. (pays to keep a little wriggle room ha)

Yup, that's true.

Resulting divorce $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

I passed that point long since!

35 minutes ago, 87creepin said:

The pics arent showing up unfortunately 

Hopefully fixed?

Well so far I've traced the "serious electrical fault" that I suspect wrote the car off to a $60 ambient air temp sensor behind the front bumper.

I remember viewing the wreck of my father's first Elise after he was almost killed in it. Blood splatter everywhere. Some poor sucker had to clean that shit out..... he lived though and it's now an endurance racer down in Otago.

2 hours ago, morkster said:

What the hell happened there? U-turn or skids or.. the car that hit it must have been motoring tho :-/

Looks to me (And this is purrrrre speculation) that the Jaguar got a bit of a fishtail on and crossed the median kerb onto the other side of the road, sitting broadside across the opposite lane. It's an 80km/h zone and being T-boned by a large stationwagon, which may have had little or no time to slow, gives this outcome.

That Manheim car was a fatal.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/auckland/107899234/police-confirm-20yearold-albany-crash-victim-was-michel-cooper

Nasty business

Also, no reason you can't run the exhaust under the rear subframe. E-Types do exactly the same and we run a big bore through there on ours and it never scrapes (well not there, we occasionally kiss the long-runner headers on full compression bumpy road steez)

On 4/18/2018 at 23:14, Thousand Dollar Supercar said:

It would be. I thought all TWR cars were basically body kits and suspension, still fitted with automatics and with their engines essentially stock. Fortunately, some total XJS Barry has written this site that suggests a 6L manual car could have been a possibility: https://classicregister.com/id-guides/how-identify-1984-1988-jaguar-xjs-twr-enhanced

This one is owned by (and was built at TWR by) the crew chief of TWR's global ops of the time, who was in charge of the on-track operations of the XJS when they raced in the '80s.  I often catch up with him when I pop down to my folks' place, he's got some fascinating tales.

Here he is, on the right, when they came over and conquered Bathurst.

His XJR-S is a thing of beauty, and was the only one built to full-fat spec. Excluding some of the bonkers Lister creations, it's probably the ultimately spec'd XJS you will ever find.... certainly I reckon it's the most desirable factory XJS I've ever come across.

Have a soft spot for the XJS.

One of my fathers' friends has a special-build Walkinshaw XJR-S. 6L, V12 Manual, 400bhp. Thing's a beast.

We're gonna put one of those louvre systems in at hour place, but only in a few years once we've recovered from the pain of borrowing more than the combined GDP of half of Africa.

I had my old aircon unit under the deck, it's a great place to have it. Especially for you, other side of the house from the bedrooms.

At night when it's quiet, you do hear them from a few feet away, but so long as it's not right outside a bedroom window you're all gravy.

Our aircon goes in next week.

Your house has a Formula One button. Baller!