Back in 94 when I worked at a service station. A customer had me testdrive his late 70s XJ6 with a corvette v8 from an 84 I believe and could not believe how quick it was. Only problem his had was that the power steering did not work. Other than that, it was a beautiful car.
Only other modified car I liked better was one of the mule Monster Miatas that was parked at the shop overnight. First gear was useless on that car.
My buddy's Jag V-12:
Gives my T/A the taillights constantly.
If you're interested, PM me and I can give you his contact info. His Jag is seriously badass.
The new motor is in the 7-litre range, he's running custom suspension and wheels (not sure what really) and a Jerico transmission. This thing is spooky.
Shawn
^ More info on that car please!! 
grpb wrote: Obviously if you don't need quiet (squeaks, rattles, banging), or capable (trackday, drag strip or autocross with no mechanical consequences), or fast (stock small block V8 with maybe 300-350lb-ft), then the expenditure goes down. It all depends on what you want it to do. Bottom line, if you don't mind a loud, rattly, poorly air conditioned british saloon hot rod, then yes, an XJ6 makes an excellent platform.
Poor AC, yes, but the rest? I dunno. Neither of my XJ6s were rattly, squeaky, or noisy, and they both had well over 100k miles on them.
fastEddie wrote: ^ More info on that car please!!
Some more pics on the album page here: http://www.jcna.com/clubs/gallery.php?club=NW44&Vref=NW44
Art and his car from a couple years ago: http://www.jcna.com/library/news/2003/jcna0168.html
Video clip from a couple years back: http://www.jcna.com/library/slalom/images/artrun.wmv
I've PM'd you his e-mail address if you want more info.
Shawn
92dxman wrote: Here is a 76 XJ6C for $2k: http://philadelphia.craigslist.org/ctd/1053066244.html
nice
Trans_Maro wrote: Video clip from a couple years back: http://www.jcna.com/library/slalom/images/artrun.wmv
Arent some of those telephone poles a bit close to the course? That looks scary.
Yes, yes they are..
I've run quite close to them a few times. We had a guy put his E-type square into one last year.
This is the Jaguar Club of North America, they're not running under SCCA or CACC rules.
I've mentioned "safe distance from objects" to them a few times but it doesn't seem to bother anyone. Scares me a bit though
The lot that vid was taken at is probably the worst location I've ever run at but we lost two of the local Airports in the last few years and that was the only place to run.
We got our normal airstrip back this year (I won't go into the politics except to mention that it's the usual NIMBY syndrome. Noise at an airstrip? since when?) so we should be running a much more sane course.
Basicly it's a figure-eight autocross course that was (apparently) used for the Nationals a few years back. The clubs all agreed to use this course every year for every points race so that everyone could race and not have to show up in the same place to run. This way each club could run it's own events and submit the times to the officials. Trophies are awarded accordingly.
The best times are under 40 seconds with 38 being the fastest time. Art and another fellow have been trading back and forth for first place for a while now. I took first place in "other makes" class with this club last year. My best time seems to be 40.something but lately I've been having trouble getting under 44. Must be the dried out tires.
The nice thing about running the same course over and over again is you can really judge how you're improving, The bad thing is you run the same course over and over so you don't get as much practice for other situations but hey.. Seat time is seat time.
Anyway, enough O/T rambling, back to your regular posting.
Shawn
the Xj series is another english car that is screaming for BMW straight six (or 12) power and a stout manual trans..
Just imagine an XLS with a 3.5 M engine hooked up to a fivespeed.. Class, power, refinement, and reliability all rolled into one.
Well, to be fair, the engine in an XJ6 is not the unreliable portion of the car, really. That design has been around since the '50s, and is fairly simple and stout. it's all the auxiliary bits, like alternators, starters, and the like that are a problem. But the alternators and starters can be swapped out with Bosh and GM units to cure those problems. You can even update the dual fuel tank system to cure another of the major headache areas.
Hi.....
New guy.......I was just doing a little surfing; looking for pics of XJ12 Coupes, when I came across this topic on this forum.......
I read the comments regarding the XJC......
Now about 5 years ago I came across an article in a British car mag "Top Car" about the Lister prepared XJS cars. The manufacturing is done by WP Automotive under licence to Lister.
The article covered the Lister Le Mans XJS with a bi-supercharged 7 litre Jaguar V12, 600 bhp; a serious bit of kit. £147,000's worth of kit at the time.
The article also went on to mention a certain car importer who already owned a Lister Le Mans but also had an XJ12C prepared by Lister to the Le Mans spec as he wanted a very fast car that could seat 4 in reasonable comfort.
This car had the Lister prepared 7 litre V12. 500 bhp (non supercharged)
I still have the article if anyone wishes to know more or/and wants to see the pics......
If there is interest I can scan the article to post the pics.
Incidentally, there is an AC Cobra replica built by a company in the UK called DJ cars; this replica uses Jaguar running gear (suspension ect...) and the standard 5.3 litre Jaguar V12, I have always wondered about fitting a Lister prepared 7 litre V12 into one of these replica Cobras.....
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