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Just brought another car to add to my collection, Jaguar XJR that’s the full fat V8 Supercharged model. A bit pipe and slippers but she does go rather well when you push the go go pedal to the floor! 370BHP and 0 – 60 in just a nat’s cock over 5 seconds. I have on order a stainless x pipe to remove the first exhaust box, and some more pipe to remove the middle exhaust boxes. She drives like a Jag too soft and quiet! I am leaning towards stripping the paint off and having it bare metal and banded steels! A smaller super charger pulley is on the shopping list and also have to do something about the soft floaty boat ride suspension…..
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I wouldn't bare metal it - I'd satin black all the chrome parts and the wheels too, give it a stealth bomber kind of look. Compound charge it and maybe a sniff of nitrous too, get up to 600bhp ish?
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1968 Cal Look Beetle - 2007cc motor - 14.45@93mph in full street trim 1970-ish Karmann Beetle cabriolet - project soon to be re-started. 1986 Scirocco - big plans, one day!
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Jul 19, 2016 10:11:54 GMT
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I am leaning towards stripping the paint off and having it bare metal Please don't.it'll look daft....its a jag in jag racing green..... Spend time and money on a paddle shift
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Carsie
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Jul 19, 2016 12:21:58 GMT
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Just brought another car to add to my collection, Jaguar XJR that’s the full fat V8 Supercharged model. A bit pipe and slippers but she does go rather well when you push the go go pedal to the floor! 370BHP and 0 – 60 in just a nat’s cock over 5 seconds. I have on order a stainless x pipe to remove the first exhaust box, and some more pipe to remove the middle exhaust boxes. She drives like a Jag too soft and quiet! I am leaning towards stripping the paint off and having it bare metal and banded steels! A smaller super charger pulley is on the shopping list and also have to do something about the soft floaty boat ride suspension….. Oh No! you just said that lot to ruin my day didn't you? What a lovely Jag! please don't do anything like you've just said ; you will ruin it! The Jag isn't a Lotus, I have one too, its a different ride, it's a different paradigm; the Jag's an iron fist in a velvet glove. Drive it for a few months and let it get under your skin first and you'll be really surprised how well the damper/spring rates have been calculated, you can really push these girls hard into a corner and they don't bite back they just go round..very,very,quickly! The suspension shouldn't be bouncy at all but it is a heavy car, usual criteria apply, check V Mounts at the front, bilsteins, ARB bushes etc. I can't remember if the XJ8 had a closed loop on the lambas which need looking at if you drop any of the boxes out. You have a very serious performance car there and they are definitely rising in value - please don't murder it! - I know it's yours but....please- as has already been said it's a BRG Jag! Beautiful car.
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Jul 19, 2016 12:29:51 GMT
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I'd be inclined to go for the broadspeed coupe look with removed bumpers wide arches and matching wheels.
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froggy
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Jul 19, 2016 20:28:39 GMT
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Drive one with a manual conversion and you'll be amazed at the transformation .
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Jul 19, 2016 20:46:16 GMT
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I'm with a bit of everyone here, keep it Racing Green, but dechrome it, lower it a bit so it doesn't wallow (and so it looks better), tint the windows limo black, bigger wheels (not chrome though) and add some tasteful performance mods which would create a real beast.
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Jul 19, 2016 22:50:34 GMT
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Just brought another car to add to my collection, Jaguar XJR that’s the full fat V8 Supercharged model. A bit pipe and slippers but she does go rather well when you push the go go pedal to the floor! 370BHP and 0 – 60 in just a nat’s cock over 5 seconds. I have on order a stainless x pipe to remove the first exhaust box, and some more pipe to remove the middle exhaust boxes. She drives like a Jag too soft and quiet! I am leaning towards stripping the paint off and having it bare metal and banded steels! A smaller super charger pulley is on the shopping list and also have to do something about the soft floaty boat ride suspension….. Oh No! you just said that lot to ruin my day didn't you? What a lovely Jag! please don't do anything like you've just said ; you will ruin it! The Jag isn't a Lotus, I have one too, its a different ride, it's a different paradigm; the Jag's an iron fist in a velvet glove. Drive it for a few months and let it get under your skin first and you'll be really surprised how well the damper/spring rates have been calculated, you can really push these girls hard into a corner and they don't bite back they just go round..very,very,quickly! The suspension shouldn't be bouncy at all but it is a heavy car, usual criteria apply, check V Mounts at the front, bilsteins, ARB bushes etc. I can't remember if the XJ8 had a closed loop on the lambas which need looking at if you drop any of the boxes out. You have a very serious performance car there and they are definitely rising in value - please don't murder it! - I know it's yours but....please- as has already been said it's a BRG Jag! Beautiful car. I never said it was bouncy? its floaty? too soft and rolls to much in the corners? Before every one wants to hang me because I may ruin a really nice car in their eyes lets just make you all aware of a few things, the car does not look as good in real life the picture makes it look much better than it is. Sure she looks good 6 feet away. Close inspection its not so pretty the roof looks like a child has spray painted it with a rattle can and prepped it with rubbing it down with a brick! Look again at the picture, look at the roof that's not a nice shine or reflections its the crappy paint job! the rear arches are full of filler, the rear chassis rails/mounts for all the rear suspension look like they have maybe a year left before they are rotten beyond economic/easy repair. I brought it cheap for a reason its rotten! I had to weld inner cills, jacking points, front foot wells and chassis to get it through the mot. I am going to give it some mods to make it run better and make it faster. But is was brought to be a run around for a year and then stripped for all the engine and running gear they are going in a transit! Had my mind to do it for a while and have already broken 2 other XJR's in the past but lack of funds and storage space have made me sell off the parts. 3rd times a charm and all that..... yes a shame to break it up but no one will want a welded up rotten jag as a keeper! The roof is horrible! every one who has seen it all look at the roof and comment on WTF! WHO PAINTED THE ROOF! I am not paying hundreds of pounds to get the roof repainted due to the poor condition of the underside. The roof issue also is an embarrassment as people may think I have painted it!
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Last Edit: Jul 19, 2016 22:54:13 GMT by espritv8
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Jul 19, 2016 22:58:01 GMT
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I'd be inclined to go for the broadspeed coupe look with removed bumpers wide arches and matching wheels. yes that would look cool, but these don't look good with the bumpers removed! they are huge plastic bumpers and don't have any front or rear valance when the bumpers are removed
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Something like this perhaps?
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Adey
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bad to the bone, slam, banded steels, dechrome, more power and noise. slap in a manual conversion too and it becomes on of my "too build" wish list cars.
looking forward to this
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Carsie
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Jul 20, 2016 10:31:51 GMT
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Morning Esprit The typed word can be harsh sometimes without the inflection of a smile and a mock show of hands to the face so please don't take me too harshly and I hear loud and clear about the rot - boy can a Jag rot! You might have seen my own project which is to take an XJ40 (the one in my Avatar) and cut it up and graft it onto an XJR300. Bodywork is all but done now, just awaiting for some cash and the paintshop before I can put it back together; really looking forward to some BM/Audi hunting lol! You mentioned supercharge upgrade, Jaguar Forum across in the states discuss this at length www.jaguarforums.com/forum/xj-xj8-xjr-x308-27/xjr-engine-upgrades-19861/Look forward to you progress. p.s you surrrreeeee...I can't talk you out of cutting it up?
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Jul 20, 2016 12:13:53 GMT
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the R is already missing most of the chrome that a Soverign would have had, much like the bmw's shadowline trim but usually colour coded on the jag.
got a lwb v8 in for a service at the moment, none of them got an lsd but a fairly advanced tc system for the time.
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hario
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Jul 20, 2016 12:43:34 GMT
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*S202 C300TD Wagon* Installed: OM606 & 722.6, Evo6 IC, S600AMG callipers & 345mm rotors. No catz. Leatherish seats.. Rust.. Future: DIY manifolds & turbo compound build. Built IP, & some kind of software. Less rust..
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Smiler
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Jul 20, 2016 14:23:44 GMT
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Not sure paint-stripped will work on a car with large plastic bumpers.
I would love one of these to smoke around in for 6 months.
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www.Auto-tat.co.uk'96 Range Rover P38 DSE (daily driver) '71 Reliant Scimitar SE5 GTE 3.0ltr Jag V6 Conversion '79 Reliant Scimitar SE6A 3.0ltr 24valve Omega Conversion '85 Escort Cabrio 2.0 Zetec - Sold '91 BMW 525i - Sold '82 Cortina 2.9i Ghia Cosworth - Sold '72 VW Campervan - Sold '65 LandRover 88" - Sold
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sb
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Jul 20, 2016 14:34:05 GMT
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Not sure paint-stripped will work on a car with large plastic bumpers. I would love one of these to smoke around in for 6 months. That was my thought, bare metal and lacquered could look really good. But the bumpers will stand out and make it look like half a job rather than a look. I'd say go crazy though. Wider arches and wide steels. Sort of a stock car look. And if it were mine I'd try a subtle scoop with a bug catcher. No more than half proud of the bonnet though, could look mean.
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Phil H
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Jul 20, 2016 15:12:22 GMT
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What about a Broadspeed/TWR hybrid? Broadspeed/Avengers for the body and TWR-inspired colours (leave the good bits BRG, paint the bad bits white)?
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Jul 20, 2016 16:40:51 GMT
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today I have removed the front to middle exhaust, I am fitting a X Pipe in place of the front box, its not a true X pipe more like a fast flowing H pipe. Looking inside the front box it never merged the two banks of exhaust from what I can see and looks like it was only baffled half way. The 2 middle boxes are going to be deleted from the system and I will just keep the rear boxes. I have brought the 10% supercharger pulley should be here in a few days. It claims to give approximately 35-40bhp/ftlb midrange gain so should spice things up! In no rush to do any thing rash with the paintwork as of yet but the roof is going to be sanded and maybe bare metaled. I have brought some trick metal treatment from the states which is said to be the dogs danglies at keeping bare metal rust free If that goes tits up and looks naff then I may just do a carbon wrap on the roof.
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Jul 20, 2016 16:50:12 GMT
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no it has wishbones on the front, the front coil springs are a nightmare to remove from what I have read on some jag forums! you also need a special tool!
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ChasR
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I almost bought one of these over my M3 TBH but a very tidy one. That said, I remember how much my friends XJR cost to run and that was a very clean car. Even that could not escape the tinworm on a 2001 Y plate ; it would live outside in my care.
Paddle shift is not a bad shout.
It shouldn't be massively floaty. It should feel comfortable ; it sounds like the dampers have gone soft to some extent.
Great move on the exhaust. The X-Pipe really helps and AJ-6 Engineering should do the substitute pipes for not much more and give a healthy increase at the same time!
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