I know I’m way behind on blogging. Sorry I’ve been busy in my real life away from this website lately. I will finish up the previous post on the Classic Motorcar Rally real soon. In the meantime have a look at this. Some guys on the Jag-Lovers E-type list have been chatting about it and I figured I’d share. Nice to see an engine swap go the other way sometime. So often American V8 crate motors get shoehorned into Jaguars, usually with unwise structural modifications to frame rails, which transform potentially valuable classics into worthless parts cars. However in this particular case, the car’s creator was truly looking to make art first, car second. He chose the motor for beauty, and the Jaguar XK is indeed a beautiful engine. Not a shabby performer either, but you have to admit it looks very much at home in that open engine bay. Much prettier than a squat V8 or a stove-bolt six.
BTW: I’d love have those wheels!
In fact, it was this *very* eBait listing (thanks, Jag-Lovers!) that put me over the top: I’m gettng a free builer XJ6 S.III engine to put in my Jeepster hotrod!
It’ll be a couple of years, and I *pwomise* to take a lotta pix of the process for ya, Chuck!
Re: Stove bolt Chubby engines: In fact, in the early, pre-small-block-Chevy days, many hot rodders used the 270 “Jimmy” truck engine as a hot rod engine. it was a lateral cousin to the original 194 StBC.
It has a MILE of torque, and since it has pressure oiling (all car engines from the 184 through the 232 car engines had splash oiling) and a stronger block, one could *easily* make about 200 HP out of it, reliably.
(“StBC” used to differentiate between the SBC = small-block Chevy, as opposed to “StBC,” a stove-bolt. It was called a StB because of the 11 THOUSAND panhead screws used to hold the lifter case cover on…and which *leaked* like a….Jaguar!)