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@@Okurka. You can. Mike is a top notch fella. Your comment history on the other hand.. rather negative and yet you still show up. Rather odd behavior if you ask me.
@@CreamAle YT is weird; it somehow recommended this video. I didn't watch it as I saw it was with Mike. I only read the comments of cringy fanbois like you. Rather odd behavior to check my comment history; obsessed much?
Tom is a brilliant guy. I love how he gives his time to automotive channels. If that engine can't be saved, at least turn it into a coffee table & give it to Tom as a present for his office.
@@tiagobelo4965 In the mid 80's, BMW bought back old and worn M10 engine blocks, let them out to 'weather' at their factory before they were modified for use in Formula 1 with over 1200bhp in qualifying trim... the reason they had to be old and worn engines is by the time they were tuning them, the stresses of casting would have been worn out of the block and they would have been stronger..
It’s a Jaaaaag - of course you should save it. Perhaps it won’t happen, but I always wondered how an XK would perform with a AJ16 - manual conversion, XK chassis and body, adding in the S/C AJ16? Excellent fun. I mean, if you could FIT them, that would be nearly the perfect recipe for an F-Type too. The perfect version would be an Ingenium straight six, but an AJ16 would be fascinating in there too.
... a suggested plan... buy another 4 /5 "1" Pound engines , ripp the parts off and build a Frankenstein with one initial purpose... to determine how much would last and what effort would be needed to wreck it...and then rebuild it with proper/ forget parts and give a rewarding performance life.... would be a nice odyssey for us to watch and a massive amount of work for you
During my attendance at a Tennessee, USA state public school, my auto mechanics teacher told us about so many dangerous tricks that I now see in this video. If he had not mentioned kicking, adding another wrench, or a pipe on a ratchet, I may have never learned these clever tricks. Thanks Mr. Jackson
Love it. Anything is possible. I bought a Chevy Corvair engine (air cooled flat 6) which was pretty much the same. Had sat in the corner of a barn for 20 yrs. Wouldnt turn over by hand, had to split the nuts holding the heads on as it was winding out the head studs....and when i did get the heads off, it was full of sludge and corn....and then i whacked a main bearing seat drifting out a stuck piston 🙈🙈🙈 But she lived......and ran like a champ in my beach buggy. Anything is possible.
Absolute beast of an engine, mine still makes me smile every single time I floor it. Rebuild it. Plus I'm sure Tom said he had some new cylinder heads for those lying around. Parts supply is good, standalone ECU options are available too so you could put it in anything big enough. They are a proper torque monster.
Of course save it and see how much power you can get out of it! Its a large engine, so wont fit that easily into a lot of engine bays, so stick it in an old jag, like tom did with his XJC. And those AJ16S engines are a lot more rare than people think - they only made 6547 XJRs, and i would guess a lot of them has been scrapped by now.
Back in the early eighties when i was a teenager my dad had a 1951 Bristol 401 it had a 2ltr straight six with triple carbs i can still hear the induction sound of that engine it was AWESOME
@@chrishenniker5944Virtually none of those were in the U.K. in the first place, and those who have them aren’t selling. The only somewhat viable option is shipping one over.
Save it! I'm so looking forward to following this build. I bought a 1995 Jaguar XJR 17 years ago which I still own and drive to this day. It it has this exact engine in it. I've always wondered what kind of potential the engine has but nobody really does much with them.
Great engine! I used to remove the bonnet, throw a blanket over the wing and replace the head gasket in a day. You can sit on the wings with your feet in the engine bay!
Yes! Please rebuild it and please let us be part of the technical journey. I think there really isn’t enough content about restoring old and broken engines out there.
Easy to get that spinning over- just give each cylinder a quick hone while the pistons are down then it can turn over enough to hone the next 2 cylinders.
The important parts look fine. Standard bearings are a plus. If they had been +40 thou then it would be a different beast. As long as the block is not porous then rebuild it. It should scrub up fine.
@@paulwilliams7816 No you cannot. The supercharger is already driven at 2.5 times crank speed, meaning at 5000 engine RPM it is already at the speed limit of the supercharger. At this speed the supercharger efficiency is falling dramatically. All it does is heat the air and consume more crankshaft power, the opposite of what you need. It is only a 90 cubic inch unit and a 4.0l engine stretches it right to the end of the performance envelope. The only way to make more power is a bigger unit. The V8 supercharger is 112 cubic inches displacement.
I had bought myself a 1996 XJ6 when i was 20. I loved how the AJ6 would purr when i would put my foot down. Im 23 now and i kind of miss it. I might actually buy it back after watching this video 😂
I would say depending on your budget for the build, try it. I imagine that both the head and block will need a machine work, so I can't imagine it being cheap.
Finally a video of AJ16 dissasembly on the whole of internet... 🎉 and even AJ16S, perfect. But it's a shame it's so rusted out, because there is less to be seen under the brown crud. Offtopic: where would you recommend to add extra oil pressure and oil temperature sensors on these? (I am doing it on mine right now)
Jeez, good score for a quid! i Sold those Eaton M90 Superchargers for £500 before. Hope the front rotor bearings are alright though as they are not replaceable like the rear needle and snout bearings are. Teflon coating chips wear on the rotors is a big problem too so be very carefully clean any debris out before turning the supercharger pulley!
FIX THIS ENGINE! What a great way to teach people who are interested about what a rebuild can do, what it looks like from the ground up and it gives a great example of why it is important to take care of and do engine maintenance.
What should you do? Similar to Tom, you should use it to repower an old classic! Something properly old with a long narrow bonnet appropriate for a straight six. Then finish it off with some modern chassis upgrades (wheels, tires and brakes), but classic body and interior.
First thing you should do is book all the parts into a dry ice cleaning process, like Tavarish has done on his flood-damaged P1, especially if you want it to look anything like new. Steam cleaning might be good, but it's nothing like dry ice cleaning.
I won a Ford 2300 lima engine on ebay for 99 cents once! lol I actually felt bad, tbh... I drove down to get it (came out of an IMMACULATE but totaled 40k mile Ranger) and the guy had it all wrapped up in plastic, strapped to a pallet, and even gently loaded right into the bed of my truck with his forklift. That thing was CLEAN!!!.. and had EVERYTHING on it... flexplate to fan / throttle body to oil pan. I used the block to rebuild a turbo 2.3 out of a Turbocoupe and put it in my ex's first car (Scarlet Red '87 Mustang 5 speed coupe)
Irn Bru Toothpaste!! 😂😂😂 As both an old Irn Bru kid ( for real, I was an Irn Bru kid ! ) and an avid watcher of all things Drivetribe this cracked me up. You have to get that beast back to life and get it in something cool. Maybe an MGB raceish car to rival the cogs or a sleeper ? Thanks for the videos, they do brighten my days.
You can repair anything, the only question is how much you want to spend. For me I would get new pistons, sleeves and shells for the crank. Set of new high lift cams with harder springs. If you are gonna do it then do it right. Once done I would look for an old rare Jaguar, remember the one Steed had in the Avengers? A replica of that with that good recon high performance engine. Once done auction it for funds for the next project.. love your work mate.
Greetings from Scotland! "Should we save this engine?" Absolutely! No cracks, no warps - it's going to need tlc and a rebore but it's such a sweet running bullet proof motor. This is going to be interesting to follow.
I've have a 2007 Toyota Solara which is a little gem that I've been through hell with and it has great sentimental value. I dream of restoring it someday like Mike's Mondeo, but worry I've abused the engine too badly and it won't be saveable. If you can save this Jaguar engine, it will give me hope.
Rebuild it this a piece of art we all need to save these engines and old classic cars as the ones made these days do not compare they don't have soul we need to show the next generation what an engine really was😅
It can be done. Can't wait to see the whole series of it from junk to running. Next time get some cheater bars to remove those stubborn bolts. Whole thing reminds me of the Haggerty rebuild videos on YT here. Go check them out!
Having rebuilt flooded engines I have a soft spot for these work horses so if it can be saved and returned to a semblance of it's glory you should do it.
Man, after watching this video and thinking how stupid I was when I had a blown head gasket at 17 and sold the car. I had no experience at the time and have since learned but this really brought me back to being young and naive about what you can restore on a vehicle.
You'll need to spend several hundred pounds to either get the cams replaced or cleaned, re-welded, re-profiled, heat treated, and precision ground. Plus a couple hundred quid on cam sprockets, pulleys, and other consumable items. All in all, you should be into that engine for less than 1500 pounds for parts, not including labor. For a relatively uncommon and potent straight six, that's not really too bad.
The engine is saveable either rebore or changing the liners regrind the crank with some oversized shells new high-flow oil pump racing pistons port the head and high lift cams then you will have a racing engine clean up the super-charger or get a recon one you could easily get 500 bhp out of her maybe a lot more depending on how much money you want to spend like putting a holley ECU system on it bigger injectors run it on methanol or capable of dual fuels petrol or methanol only for racing not for road of course it all depends how far you want to go with it having built jag engines in the past they are nice easy engines to mess around with so have fun whilst making some big horse power out of her.
Mix up some citric acid with water, pour into cylinders, leave for a day or two, it will eat up all the corrosion and the crank will spin freely. This will however not magically bring back compression. Have done so with seized engines many times before a rebuild.
Block OK, head castings OK, crank OK, that's enough for me to make an engine rebuildable, everything else can be replaced. As cost isn't an issue of course, it's about saving a rare engine. And then you have the opportunity to hot cam it and give it more boost, fit a programable ECU and large injectors.
Put that engine in a Series 3 E-Type (a lot cheaper than the Series 1 & 2), manual swap it and build it into a race car from the 60's, but with an 80's twist. Think kinda like 60's GT racing mixed with 80's Touring Cars.
At retail prices, that would have to be at least a 10k job to standard spec. As youtube is paying, 500bhp plus Saw the cost of work on Harry's XJC 😲 Not knocking Tom at all. Expertise is rightly expensive! I was looking at over 10k with turbo and ancillaries to go from 2.0 to 2.6 on a 5 cylinder starting with a vgc low mileage motor
We’ve all seen engines been rebuild before or had a slight tune up. I say you should go mental and push the engine to the absolute limit as your fully rebuilding it then put it in a car and race it against something equally as crazy, possibly a newer jag such as the f type svr?!
If you turned the crank down on seizure point at top you could put a Honing tool in sleeves & clean it up in no time preventing any further damage to taking out of Pistons. I have rebuilt worse looking engines in my time of 71 years. Get a wire brush on those Cams & polish it a bit afterwards and Bob's your uncle. You a bunch of Woozies ?
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Save the engine! Stick it in Olivia ;)
Put it in a hot rod style Mk 2. That's the answer. Proper gangster stuff.
Save it!
Save it. You thought it was a racing engine - so restore it as a racing engine and build a little single seater, track only, racing car with it.
i double triple dare you to put it in an ascona
Tom is an absolute gems, no matter which channel he's showing up on.
True character.
Can't say the same about Mike.
@@Okurka. You can. Mike is a top notch fella.
Your comment history on the other hand.. rather negative and yet you still show up. Rather odd behavior if you ask me.
@@CreamAle YT is weird; it somehow recommended this video.
I didn't watch it as I saw it was with Mike. I only read the comments of cringy fanbois like you.
Rather odd behavior to check my comment history; obsessed much?
@@Okurka. Didn't watch but still felt compelled to talk trash.
Absolute joy of a person. Take care my dude.
@@CreamAle So you didn't watch it either?
Tom is a brilliant guy. I love how he gives his time to automotive channels. If that engine can't be saved, at least turn it into a coffee table & give it to Tom as a present for his office.
shades of classic Top Gear 🫡👊
Sadly it's obscured by the 50% of the video showing his face and talking nonsense and babling about. I just wanted to see the engine ffs
@@PuzzleVizion_TVWhat do you mean? What more of the engine do you need to see? It's wrecked. Toms expressions are far more interesting!
@@PuzzleVizion_TV You are talking about Mike, aren't you?!
Rebuild it!))
We need more content to watch!))
Yes😊
as long as the block isnt cracked, it can and should be rescued..
15:54 "A well worn engine that had just been sat outside" BMW F1 engine engineers in the mid 80's : *HEAVY BREATHING*
could you explain?
@@tiagobelo4965 In the mid 80's, BMW bought back old and worn M10 engine blocks, let them out to 'weather' at their factory before they were modified for use in Formula 1 with over 1200bhp in qualifying trim... the reason they had to be old and worn engines is by the time they were tuning them, the stresses of casting would have been worn out of the block and they would have been stronger..
@@KayoMichiels The mechanics also used to 'relieve' themselves on the blocks!
Sadly just a myth, not sure how it came about though.
@@mikehipperson According to myth
It’s a Jaaaaag - of course you should save it.
Perhaps it won’t happen, but I always wondered how an XK would perform with a AJ16 - manual conversion, XK chassis and body, adding in the S/C AJ16? Excellent fun.
I mean, if you could FIT them, that would be nearly the perfect recipe for an F-Type too. The perfect version would be an Ingenium straight six, but an AJ16 would be fascinating in there too.
2:03 that "1 POUND! 1 POUND" Audio brought back so many memories. 🥺❤️
... a suggested plan... buy another 4 /5 "1" Pound engines , ripp the parts off and build a Frankenstein with one initial purpose... to determine how much would last and what effort would be needed to wreck it...and then rebuild it with proper/ forget parts and give a rewarding performance life.... would be a nice odyssey for us to watch and a massive amount of work for you
Yes, this
During my attendance at a Tennessee, USA state public school, my auto mechanics teacher told us about so many dangerous tricks that I now see in this video. If he had not mentioned kicking, adding another wrench, or a pipe on a ratchet, I may have never learned these clever tricks. Thanks Mr. Jackson
Haha, Tom Lenthal is superb "Yeah, yeah - I think she'll fire straight up."
love watching this guy take apart engines. more please
Love it.
Anything is possible. I bought a Chevy Corvair engine (air cooled flat 6) which was pretty much the same. Had sat in the corner of a barn for 20 yrs. Wouldnt turn over by hand, had to split the nuts holding the heads on as it was winding out the head studs....and when i did get the heads off, it was full of sludge and corn....and then i whacked a main bearing seat drifting out a stuck piston 🙈🙈🙈
But she lived......and ran like a champ in my beach buggy. Anything is possible.
Rebuild it. Love the Tom Lenthall content!
10:37 Put it in an MX5? Isn’t that your normal first reaction? 😂
Haha.
I was gonna say, how about that Suzuki Cappuccino?
Thought this then then thought about all the other V10 MX5 projects 😂. Not going to happen 😢
Just wanted to say the same: save it and put it in an MX5 :D
Early XJS convertible
Go full tilt and lighten the crank fly wheel rack cams the works, sleeve the block if you can. Same the hardship of boring it out past the corrosion ❤
I think a MK 3 Ford Capri would suit that engine perfectly. It will have the amazing sound with the stunning looks.
worst take in automotive history
Absolute beast of an engine, mine still makes me smile every single time I floor it. Rebuild it. Plus I'm sure Tom said he had some new cylinder heads for those lying around. Parts supply is good, standalone ECU options are available too so you could put it in anything big enough. They are a proper torque monster.
Of course save it and see how much power you can get out of it!
Its a large engine, so wont fit that easily into a lot of engine bays, so stick it in an old jag, like tom did with his XJC.
And those AJ16S engines are a lot more rare than people think - they only made 6547 XJRs, and i would guess a lot of them has been scrapped by now.
Back in the early eighties when i was a teenager my dad had a 1951 Bristol 401 it had a 2ltr straight six with triple carbs i can still hear the induction sound of that engine it was AWESOME
10:34 A Caterham 7... Obviously, it has to be a 7...
This engine in a 7 would be spot on mate !😅 Yeeha
I’m more inclined towards a late forties to mid fifties Dodge pickup or Plymouth saloon.
@@chrishenniker5944Trying to find one in the U.K. for less than £10000 will be near impossible.
@@deezhutts it’d make an excellent hot rod engine, regardless of cost. Why so expensive though?
@@chrishenniker5944Virtually none of those were in the U.K. in the first place, and those who have them aren’t selling. The only somewhat viable option is shipping one over.
Save it! I'm so looking forward to following this build. I bought a 1995 Jaguar XJR 17 years ago which I still own and drive to this day. It it has this exact engine in it. I've always wondered what kind of potential the engine has but nobody really does much with them.
Do you own a jaguar xjr from like an xj40 but the sport version? Cause I have a jaguar xjr 1991 and in there is an AJ6 4.0L and this is an AJ16.
Great engine! I used to remove the bonnet, throw a blanket over the wing and replace the head gasket in a day. You can sit on the wings with your feet in the engine bay!
Having that amount of space is a DREAM! Mini owner 😢
@@BoyeeSmudger I concur 😂👍
Yes! Please rebuild it and please let us be part of the technical journey. I think there really isn’t enough content about restoring old and broken engines out there.
Try and beat Greg Parsons in Australia who managed to get 576hp from his AJ16 rebuild and upgrades. What a legend.
Easy to get that spinning over- just give each cylinder a quick hone while the pistons are down then it can turn over enough to hone the next 2 cylinders.
Nice one! I think you should save it and build a XJC restomod
The important parts look fine. Standard bearings are a plus. If they had been +40 thou then it would be a different beast. As long as the block is not porous then rebuild it. It should scrub up fine.
Put on a bigger super charger, make it a real hotrod engine!
You could probably get away with putting smaller pullies on it and make more boost that way rather spending more money on a bigger one
@@paulwilliams7816 No you cannot. The supercharger is already driven at 2.5 times crank speed, meaning at 5000 engine RPM it is already at the speed limit of the supercharger. At this speed the supercharger efficiency is falling dramatically. All it does is heat the air and consume more crankshaft power, the opposite of what you need. It is only a 90 cubic inch unit and a 4.0l engine stretches it right to the end of the performance envelope. The only way to make more power is a bigger unit. The V8 supercharger is 112 cubic inches displacement.
I had bought myself a 1996 XJ6 when i was 20. I loved how the AJ6 would purr when i would put my foot down. Im 23 now and i kind of miss it. I might actually buy it back after watching this video 😂
It's a Yes from me to restore that engine and I love to do this kind of work
Love Tom. He's the kinda Geezer ya need in your life!
I would say depending on your budget for the build, try it. I imagine that both the head and block will need a machine work, so I can't imagine it being cheap.
Finally a video of AJ16 dissasembly on the whole of internet... 🎉 and even AJ16S, perfect. But it's a shame it's so rusted out, because there is less to be seen under the brown crud. Offtopic: where would you recommend to add extra oil pressure and oil temperature sensors on these? (I am doing it on mine right now)
That's nothing Jeremy bought a car on top gear for a £1
have you heard of inflation
@@mscd9676 a pound is a pound tho
And they bought a Lamborghini Urraco for £10k
A parts car will cost you 4x that now.
They referenced it in the video 😂
That £1 car was a Volvo 760 GLE (2.8 V6).
I’ve got a 4.0 AJ16 in my XJ6, it’s a lovely motor. Smooth, powerful, sounds lovely. Shame the rest of the car keeps breaking.
If it's Jaguar, it deserves to be rebuilt, simple! (Plus more Tom Lenthal content)
Jeez, good score for a quid! i Sold those Eaton M90 Superchargers for £500 before. Hope the front rotor bearings are alright though as they are not replaceable like the rear needle and snout bearings are. Teflon coating chips wear on the rotors is a big problem too so be very carefully clean any debris out before turning the supercharger pulley!
Restore it.. then find a 1£ chassis and body, restore that one too and then put 1 and 1 together to make 2
FIX THIS ENGINE! What a great way to teach people who are interested about what a rebuild can do, what it looks like from the ground up and it gives a great example of why it is important to take care of and do engine maintenance.
Yes Mike, do it up. We all love engines❤
What should you do? Similar to Tom, you should use it to repower an old classic! Something properly old with a long narrow bonnet appropriate for a straight six. Then finish it off with some modern chassis upgrades (wheels, tires and brakes), but classic body and interior.
Get it into a jimny!
First thing you should do is book all the parts into a dry ice cleaning process, like Tavarish has done on his flood-damaged P1, especially if you want it to look anything like new. Steam cleaning might be good, but it's nothing like dry ice cleaning.
That engine has great potential... as a coffee table.
I won a Ford 2300 lima engine on ebay for 99 cents once! lol
I actually felt bad, tbh... I drove down to get it (came out of an IMMACULATE but totaled 40k mile Ranger) and the guy had it all wrapped up in plastic, strapped to a pallet, and even gently loaded right into the bed of my truck with his forklift. That thing was CLEAN!!!.. and had EVERYTHING on it... flexplate to fan / throttle body to oil pan.
I used the block to rebuild a turbo 2.3 out of a Turbocoupe and put it in my ex's first car (Scarlet Red '87 Mustang 5 speed coupe)
Rebuild as a stroker with a bigger swirly thing on the intake 👌
Irn Bru Toothpaste!! 😂😂😂 As both an old Irn Bru kid ( for real, I was an Irn Bru kid ! ) and an avid watcher of all things Drivetribe this cracked me up. You have to get that beast back to life and get it in something cool. Maybe an MGB raceish car to rival the cogs or a sleeper ? Thanks for the videos, they do brighten my days.
Tom, does Alex know you're cheating on him?
😂
You can repair anything, the only question is how much you want to spend. For me I would get new pistons, sleeves and shells for the crank. Set of new high lift cams with harder springs. If you are gonna do it then do it right. Once done I would look for an old rare Jaguar, remember the one Steed had in the Avengers? A replica of that with that good recon high performance engine. Once done auction it for funds for the next project.. love your work mate.
So 3 months on, what is the progress with this project?
Greetings from Scotland! "Should we save this engine?" Absolutely! No cracks, no warps - it's going to need tlc and a rebore but it's such a sweet running bullet proof motor. This is going to be interesting to follow.
So is there gonna be another video about it?
I'm 3 months late but I would love to see a rebuild on this engine. If not, turn it into an art piece/furniture.
Rebuild it!!
Yes, save it. Have the smallest cog make a frame like a caterham style, slap it in and have some fun with it.
Please be classy, and put it in a
Mk ten with a manual 'box
Grace, Space , and PACE 😊
🚗 ⚙ 📦 😃
Yes save it. I was a Motor Mechanic for 25+ years & loved to do rebuilds on old stuff like that, So give it a chance to run free again guys :)
I'd turn it into a coffee table.
I’d connect it to a bean grinder and milk frother to make the coffee for the table
😂😂
Superb video myfriend 🎉 the big chap knows what he's doing eh😊, learning a few tricks myself from him 😊 respect from Glasgow brother 🎉😊
This engine has been sitting outside in the UK weather for who knows how long. What shape did you expect it to be in? I think you did over pay.
I've have a 2007 Toyota Solara which is a little gem that I've been through hell with and it has great sentimental value. I dream of restoring it someday like Mike's Mondeo, but worry I've abused the engine too badly and it won't be saveable. If you can save this Jaguar engine, it will give me hope.
But will it blend?
don't breathe this!
"you gotta use your head, mate" - words to live by! love the video!
Stop wasting poor Toms valuable time and turn it into a coffee table ☕️
Now i hope it runs
Tom has many minions
Rebuild it this a piece of art we all need to save these engines and old classic cars as the ones made these days do not compare they don't have soul we need to show the next generation what an engine really was😅
I WANT TO SEE THE ENGINE, NOT THEIR FACES!!
Make it the Race Engine you thought you’d bought.Full on rebuild with extra ponies.Make it look like that sexy XJC unit.That’s one fine looking motor.
So where’s the conclusion video??? That’s the annoying thing about this channel, no continuity 😤😤😤😤😤😤
It's now September and still no follow up
@@mariobarron1520and now November
It’s out and now (November) has been for 4 days
This channel is just thing happens nothing else
It can be done. Can't wait to see the whole series of it from junk to running. Next time get some cheater bars to remove those stubborn bolts. Whole thing reminds me of the Haggerty rebuild videos on YT here. Go check them out!
it is a table. not an engine.
Having rebuilt flooded engines I have a soft spot for these work horses so if it can be saved and returned to a semblance of it's glory you should do it.
Should have mentioned this vid featured Tom in the title. You’d have double the views! Need to see this engine rebuild. Stick it in an XJS please.
Man, after watching this video and thinking how stupid I was when I had a blown head gasket at 17 and sold the car. I had no experience at the time and have since learned but this really brought me back to being young and naive about what you can restore on a vehicle.
You'll need to spend several hundred pounds to either get the cams replaced or cleaned, re-welded, re-profiled, heat treated, and precision ground. Plus a couple hundred quid on cam sprockets, pulleys, and other consumable items. All in all, you should be into that engine for less than 1500 pounds for parts, not including labor. For a relatively uncommon and potent straight six, that's not really too bad.
The engine is saveable either rebore or changing the liners regrind the crank with some oversized shells new high-flow oil pump racing pistons port the head and high lift cams then you will have a racing engine clean up the super-charger or get a recon one you could easily get 500 bhp out of her maybe a lot more depending on how much money you want to spend like putting a holley ECU system on it bigger injectors run it on methanol or capable of dual fuels petrol or methanol only for racing not for road of course it all depends how far you want to go with it having built jag engines in the past they are nice easy engines to mess around with so have fun whilst making some big horse power out of her.
Mix up some citric acid with water, pour into cylinders, leave for a day or two, it will eat up all the corrosion and the crank will spin freely. This will however not magically bring back compression.
Have done so with seized engines many times before a rebuild.
Save it. Dry ice the block and bits. Build it up!
Block OK, head castings OK, crank OK, that's enough for me to make an engine rebuildable, everything else can be replaced. As cost isn't an issue of course, it's about saving a rare engine.
And then you have the opportunity to hot cam it and give it more boost, fit a programable ECU and large injectors.
This is the content we want! Yes, rebuild it! Please 🙏!
Fix it! Absolutely loved seeing this, yet again, with Tom. Maybe put it in an XJ-S? Fastest ever XJ-S?
Put that engine in a Series 3 E-Type (a lot cheaper than the Series 1 & 2), manual swap it and build it into a race car from the 60's, but with an 80's twist. Think kinda like 60's GT racing mixed with 80's Touring Cars.
Did 0-120mph in a DB7 with this engine. A time capsule of a car and the engine noise was fantastic
Good crank and con-rods, as long as the block isn't cracked, definitely worth a save.
Never thought I'd get excited about an engine rebuild but since I had an old XJR with this engine, I'm invested! 😊
At retail prices, that would have to be at least a 10k job to standard spec.
As youtube is paying, 500bhp plus
Saw the cost of work on Harry's XJC 😲 Not knocking Tom at all. Expertise is rightly expensive!
I was looking at over 10k with turbo and ancillaries to go from 2.0 to 2.6 on a 5 cylinder starting with a vgc low mileage motor
You can use the housing itself if you change all the insides including the cylinder lining.
There are not even a bolt you can reuse
It was sitting outside for a reason so it's probably worn out as he said. Rebuild it stock and find a nice old Jag for it.
Rebuild it!!!!we need more content to watch and admire please do it🙌👏🙏👍
it would be fun to see this with all original parts, just for fun.
clean everything and put it back together (apart from bearings and seals of course)
Deffo rebuild the motor. It's deserving of some love and new parts.
Yes, please save it, but on the one condition that you cram it into a standard cab short bed 90s Hilux
We’ve all seen engines been rebuild before or had a slight tune up. I say you should go mental and push the engine to the absolute limit as your fully rebuilding it then put it in a car and race it against something equally as crazy, possibly a newer jag such as the f type svr?!
I pulled an AMC 401 out of the mud in a junk yard. It was bad but, built it and it would turn low 11's in my AMX
An engine rebuild for awesome project car. You may have paid £1 but that rebuild will cost... Can't wait to see it in the future...
Absolutely save it and to watch it being rebuilt and fitted would be a great watch
If you turned the crank down on seizure point at top you could put a Honing tool in sleeves & clean it up in no time preventing any further damage to taking out of Pistons.
I have rebuilt worse looking engines in my time of 71 years.
Get a wire brush on those Cams & polish it a bit afterwards and Bob's your uncle.
You a bunch of Woozies ?
Rad mud on the Ram, Fernie. Epic Jurassic engine.
As a marine mechanic I've seen far worse, many times. Should you save it? For your own sake no, but I'd love to watch you do it.
Please rebuild it it's such great telly to see the journey.