Cossy sold and Jag bought - the hard work begins next week

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Put engine and box on the bay on Friday

Box sold and the chap will take the engine if not sold.

BUT he wants them next Saturday

Then it will be off with the body and any chassis mods carried out.

The Jag (manual gearbox) with only 85k miles (owner had it 9 years) was purchased in Glasgow last week and driven 175 miles home

Hope to have it on the road before next summer

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greymrj said:

It brought out the best pedantiatric ones anyway

All the best with that Mick, you are going to be busy but you like a challenge. As I said before, keep it looking as standard as you can, more fun when you can surprise people!! Hope it can be made to sound as good as the Cossie did. It sounded really good from behind, couldn't always see it for the smoke but I knew where it was!!!

I don't intend changing the bodywork - it does not look 'standard' as is.

Engine and box to be removed on Saturday then body off and do some chassis strengthening

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TvrJohn said:

So its a Jag alloy V6 into an TVR S ?

Just that i saw Jag V6 in Mazda 5 yesterday at Tatton Park show, had a good chat with the owner, builder was "rocketeer" who made a bespoke carbon fibe 6 branch inlet manifold, lovely bit of engineering.

Yep Rocketeer make a number of parts to fit the AJ30 into the MX5 including a bespoke ECU. I have emailed them but no answer yet (suppose I better ring them

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Engine and gearbox out and sold. Now for the lift.
Back end up.

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still sorting the wiring and dash

no space yet at my mates garage to do the engine/box transfer, hopefully by the end of Jan.

I have plenty of non motoring jobs to do in the mean time

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back end up high enough but can't raise the front as I now need to obtain strops to attach to the chain hoist.


Initial inspection of the chassis and looks like there is no rust. The denso tape doing a great job.

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phillpot said:

Blisters, bubbles?

the Denso tape adhered yo the paint and pulled it or yes could have been the paint not bonding to the base white coating. At least it is not down to the metal. I will be scraping at all suspect areas and re-coating the whole chassis again.

Edited by magpies on Sunday 27th January 16:45

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Chassis ready to go to the garage

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QBee said:

Sorry to bomb your thread, but seeing your wheels reminded:

I have a set of those wheels in 17 inch, 7J, that I bought for my Chimaera 6 years ago.
ET18 as far as i remember, so slightly wider than normal track for a Chimaera and might not fit an S.
They are probably in need of a bit of a tidy up, but I do have the hub caps for them too.

I am happy to give them to anyone who likes them and wants them for their S.

If anyone is interested, email me through my profile please. Here's what they looked like on my Chimaera:



They aren't as unmarked any more. They look wrong in the wheel arch in that picture because they had stupidly low profile tyres on them.
I bought some SP12s a few months later and have never used these wheels since. Time for a new home

I may be interested as could do with some for trackday tyres

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Engine and box out of the Jaguar
All ally gearbox casing makes for a light unit.

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Alan Whitaker said:

Looking good there Mick, what's the power from the Jag lump

240 as standard with cats etc.

hoping for closer to 260

gearbox is 5 speed but direct top so a change of diff ratio needed.4.2 to take out and either 3.64 (standard TVR ratio) or 3.32 to go into my LSD .

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Boosted LS1 said:

They say beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Does it look any nicer from above?

It should do when finished

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No logo on the plenum but on both rocker covers. The photo is of Damian Jag S

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found this ont net - 3000M with the Jag engine - Madslund

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Alan Whitaker said:

They look and go better with a big Supercharger on top Mick

I bet they do........ but for the moment I'm sticking with about 250bhp.

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Looking at something like this

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DamianS3 said:

I know thats alfa but it looks a bit like the st220 design

Are you taking tbe breather to a catch tank?

Cheers

Damian

yes - I would never design to recirc oily air through any form of metering

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All ancillaries removed along with the inlet and exhaust manifolds leaving a much nicer looking block.

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Alan Whitaker said:

New exhaust manifolds or keeping the old ones?

New ones going rearwards down past the bellhousing, as looks like enough space. Damian and Blue 30 both have theirs going that way.

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Now in the process of strengthening the chassis by adding fillet plates.
Also making a solid alternator mounting. Then engine mounts.