In a street close to me, there is an old Jaguar that has been sitting in the street for at least 12 months without being driven. The rego expired around 9 months ago so I'm guessing they are never going to drive it again. I'm thinking of approaching them to either take it off their hands for nothing or buy it cheaply. Maybe 200 bucks or something.
It looks like this:
... But an older model. Maybe 70-something. I cant actually find an exact picture of it anywhere (curse you google, why do you hate me??)
Anyway. I'm assuming there is something mechanically wrong with the car that its not being used, and I'm guessing its going to be something expensive or it would have been fixed or sold by now.
Assuming its the engine (more than likely), I'd like to do an engine transplant. Considering a Jag is a damn heavy car, its never going to be a blistering performance vehicle in a straight line so I'm more looking at something that will get it moving at the sort of speed you'd see in a ecotec V6 commodore. What would be "better" to use as a stock engine with minimulistic future upgrades... I'm currently tossing up between a 1jzgte or a 1uzfe. The benefit of the 1uz is VEE EIGHT MATE *grunt, grunt* with the downside of more expensive rego. The benefit of the 1jz is turbo power (such a status symbol to have a FMIC, no?). I'm leaning more to the 1uzfe (or maybe go old skool carby? 308/350/351?) cause a V8 sounds nice. I'd prefer newschool cause I want smooth. It'll be an auto though because this is gonna be for cruising, not bruising.
Secondly the paintwork is tired. Panels are all straight that I could see in my stealth observations, but the paint is faded at best, orangepeeled at worst. I'm guessing that a cut and polish would reveal how bad it really is, but orange peel cant be fixed with a rag... So respray would be in order. Its currently a blue/grey colour (like a sky blue with a very small amount of dark gray smeared through it) and I'd be looking at going to blue (midnight purple even?). So since I'm going to a lighter colour, will all that be required is a rub down and spray? I'm thinking if I do all the "hard work" it would probably cost me around a grand including paint to get anything halfway decent.
Ok so thats what I've figured out on my own. I'm basically looking for a bit of advice. Is a jaguar going to be an ongoing drama queen, even assuming the british "engineering" is removed? Anyone know any pitfalls and traps of these old jags (known for chassis rust or anything?)... Idiosyncrasies is what I'm after.
Cheers for anything
It looks like this:
... But an older model. Maybe 70-something. I cant actually find an exact picture of it anywhere (curse you google, why do you hate me??)
Anyway. I'm assuming there is something mechanically wrong with the car that its not being used, and I'm guessing its going to be something expensive or it would have been fixed or sold by now.
Assuming its the engine (more than likely), I'd like to do an engine transplant. Considering a Jag is a damn heavy car, its never going to be a blistering performance vehicle in a straight line so I'm more looking at something that will get it moving at the sort of speed you'd see in a ecotec V6 commodore. What would be "better" to use as a stock engine with minimulistic future upgrades... I'm currently tossing up between a 1jzgte or a 1uzfe. The benefit of the 1uz is VEE EIGHT MATE *grunt, grunt* with the downside of more expensive rego. The benefit of the 1jz is turbo power (such a status symbol to have a FMIC, no?). I'm leaning more to the 1uzfe (or maybe go old skool carby? 308/350/351?) cause a V8 sounds nice. I'd prefer newschool cause I want smooth. It'll be an auto though because this is gonna be for cruising, not bruising.
Secondly the paintwork is tired. Panels are all straight that I could see in my stealth observations, but the paint is faded at best, orangepeeled at worst. I'm guessing that a cut and polish would reveal how bad it really is, but orange peel cant be fixed with a rag... So respray would be in order. Its currently a blue/grey colour (like a sky blue with a very small amount of dark gray smeared through it) and I'd be looking at going to blue (midnight purple even?). So since I'm going to a lighter colour, will all that be required is a rub down and spray? I'm thinking if I do all the "hard work" it would probably cost me around a grand including paint to get anything halfway decent.
Ok so thats what I've figured out on my own. I'm basically looking for a bit of advice. Is a jaguar going to be an ongoing drama queen, even assuming the british "engineering" is removed? Anyone know any pitfalls and traps of these old jags (known for chassis rust or anything?)... Idiosyncrasies is what I'm after.
Cheers for anything
Comment