How did Jaguar go from meh to awesome in no time?
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I don't think it's quite that simple, it's a different block as I understand it but with the same exterior profile. The cylinders are smaller bore, shorter stroke etc too.
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From an engineering POV is that even possible?
The load distribution would surely be impossible to balance ?
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Surely it would be cheaper to have a different engine
But then you've got to design and tool a different engine in order to produce it and that isn't cheap.
NickXX is correct. The v6 is the v8 minus two cylinders, minor changes to the block and with shorter cylinder heads. The crank is also the same length as the v8. The project was really started to give the engineers something to do and then people were surprised when the engine was released to production.
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Surely that engine will be prone to end float?
Why?
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Because the crank has 25% of its length without any forces (other than rotational) acting on it. From further reading it seems they added a balance shaft to compensate for this. What is the engines reputation RE high mileage examples?
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Does that mean if you were that way inclined, you could buy a v6 then upgrade it to a v8?
No, it isn't literally the V8 with two missing cylinders.
There are plenty of technical articles kicking around Google that explain the differences.
It's not as simple as "V8 with two blank cylinders" that forums would have you believe, even though that's effectively the root of the idea.
Unless you mean engine swap, which would be easy, but probably cheaper to just buy the V8 model anyway.
And that's where I was going. You wouldn't just leave it to encounter rotational imbalance. That would be plain stupid!
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When they started making cars this pretty:
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I really can't disagree with that!! It's truly beautiful and very much a car I would love to own...I'm also eyeing up the XKR
http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/201604092795988
They really aren't ageing well IMO.
Not a massive fan of Jags TBH, boss has one so does the old man, boss' is a poverty spec XF diesel just bought for the badge - I'm of the opposite opinion where I couldn't give two ****s about the Facebook cred and would rather have something proper.
Dad has an S-Type diesel remapped to about 275bhp, still only done 19k miles but it's so much of an old man's car I have to wear a bag over my head just to sit in the passenger seat.
Just ran an insurance quote on that, it would cost the same to insure as my 4k Kia Sportage! Hilarious.
The one in the link isn't an XFR ...
Because it's a 4 pot diesel with a massive bodykit.