Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2012 15:02:37 -0700
Reply-To: Scott Daniel - Turbovans <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM>
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From: Scott Daniel - Turbovans <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM>
Subject: Re: Friday NVC-MGB engine that rebuilds itself
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The carbed version of the XJ6 is pretty nasty all right.
The EFI version has to be better.
I once saw the 'climate control' unit in that carbed XJ6 my friend
owned. ..
a huge box about 10 X 1- inches, with big gears in it ...
just impossibly large and mechanical ...
Humorous, how archaic looking it was.
Got to give big points for the design of the XJ6 though.
Read a whole long story one time about how Sir William Lions had a great
eye for just the right line .
That article said he'd take his best panel beaters out behind the shop
and start shaping metal until it looked just right.
Some of the best looking cars ever made ..
the 'feline' looking Jags of those days.
Shapes gain in their purity as the years go by. You could not change one
line by a quarter inch and make that car shape better..so 'pure and
honest' is the shape.
Same for other cars too ..the 300SL for example...just visual
perfection.
here's another quiz ....matter of opinion of course, and ..
what is the All Time Best post-war American car design ?
The best looking, most iconic, most 'pure american' car design or shape
? And sexy too.
Especially if counting only cars after WWII.
Scott
On 6/29/2012 2:23 PM, Jim Felder wrote:
> Scott;
>
> RE the XKE: that would have been an easier mistake (than an MGB) to
> make since both cars had the "backwards" opening hoods. Never saw an
> XKE engine with a dual carb setup either, though my wife's POS XJ6 had
> those two sorry unadjustable smog-bergs on essentially the same
> engine.
>
> But if one were smart enough not to have fooled with any of that junk,
> one wouldn't know, right?
>
> Jim
>
> On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 2:31 PM, Mike Miller <mwmiller6@att.net> wrote:
>> But it still might be an MG B engine. I believe it would bolt right up
>> to a spitfire.
>>
>> Mike
>>
>>
>> On Jun 29, 2012, at 12:04 PM, Scott Daniel - Turbovans wrote:
>>
>>> heck..
>>> if they're gonna get the sport car brand completely wrong why didn't
>>> they call it a Jaguar XKE ? !
>>> Hell..why not call it a 300SL Gullwing then !
>>>
>>> I love that Peter Garrilson ( last name spelling ? ) of Flying
>>> magazine wrote this ...
>>>
>>> "There is no law against technical descriptions or words that are
>>> imprecise -- unfortunately."
>>>
>>> No kidding.
>>> I SWEAR ....it was never like this before everyone had a computer.
>>> Back then people thought when they wrote, though I tend to idealize
>>> things I appreciate deeply - like thoughtful writing.
>>>
>>>
>>> On 6/29/2012 11:12 AM, Jim Felder wrote:
>>>> That's a Spitfire!
>>>>
>>>> Jim
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 12:04 PM, neil n <musomuso@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> Excellent ending!
>>>>>
>>>>> But did he replace his fuel lines? ;)
>>>>>
>>>>> Neat. Thanks
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Neil.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 9:49 AM, Stuart MacMillan <stuartmacm@gmail.com
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>> From one of my other lists. I need to train my WBX to do this:
>>>>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=daVDrGsaDME
>>>>>> <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=daVDrGsaDME&feature=youtu.be>
>>>>>> &feature=youtu.be
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Stuart
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Neil n
>>>>>
>>>>> 65 kb image Myford Ready For Assembly http://tinyurl.com/64sx4rp
>>>>>
>>>>> '88 Slate Blue Westy to be named.
>>>>>
>>>>> '81 VanaJetta 2.0 "Jaco" http://tubaneil.googlepages.com/
>>>>>
>>>>> Vanagon VAG Gas I4/VR Swap Google Group:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> http://groups.google.com/group/vanagons-with-vw-inline-4-cylinder-gas-engines
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