Pyrover Posted March 10, 2007 Share Posted March 10, 2007 Been chatting with a mate of mine who's a complete Jag nut and he sujested that the Jaguar XK6 engine would be an ideal engine to fit in a Land Rover, especially the 4.2 version. I know that there was the straight-6 engine fitted to some of the series Land Rovers but has anyone attempted to fit an XK engine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FridgeFreezer Posted March 10, 2007 Share Posted March 10, 2007 The LR I6 was a big beastie out of a very old Rover saloon car, fitted to SIIA's and S3's before the V8 came along. I doubt anythign from that install would be worth looking at these days. The AJ6 lump (which started as 3.6, then went to 4.0) apparently uses a very similar ZF auto to the RR 4-speed so the potential is there (some people have run the jag autos behind LR engines). I have no idea if the XK6 lump would be swappable into the place where an AJ6 once sat, I guess your mate would know? Have a read of the "Engine Bunfight" thread in the tools & fab forum. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pyrover Posted March 10, 2007 Author Share Posted March 10, 2007 Cheers Fridge. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dirtydiesel Posted March 10, 2007 Share Posted March 10, 2007 A friend of mine used to have one in a series, and managed to keep the original front panel! They are a little heavy though The auto versions of the XJ6 used the borgwarner 66 so you could use a milners or roberts adapter to a series transfer box. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pyrover Posted March 10, 2007 Author Share Posted March 10, 2007 Sweet... sounds like it could be an interesting project, think I'll have to add that to the projects list. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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