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"If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent" (essextee) 06/21/2015 at 17:32 • Filed to: None

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Been listening to XJS V12 race car noises for the last half hour. Dammit, I will own one someday.

djmt1 > If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent 06/21/2015 at 17:51

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Holy crap, I was not expecting that. That was like finding out Nigella Lawson is a cabaret dancer. Damn it, now I want one.

Twism > If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent 06/21/2015 at 17:53

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at high revs, it sounds like an F1.

...back when F1 sounded awesome.

Baeromez > If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent 06/21/2015 at 17:56

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If a tiger and an eagle had a baby, this is what it would sound like.

If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent > djmt1 06/21/2015 at 18:01

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djmt1 > If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent 06/21/2015 at 18:05

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But how? It’s a Jag, they didn’t do manuals. I don’t know what to believe any more. Either way, Discount V12 Vantage!

Autofixation > If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent 06/21/2015 at 18:08

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I know a guy here in New Hampshire that put an XJS race car engine and transmission in an XK.

kanadanmajava1 > If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent 06/21/2015 at 18:09

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You might have found this already but just in case you didn’t. There’s pretty epic clip of a TWR XJS setting a lap time that gave Tom Walkinshaw a pole position for Bathurst 1000 race in 1985.

If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent > djmt1 06/21/2015 at 18:10

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Pre 1990 XJSs had a manual option for the straight-six only, 1990-96 you could get a manual V12.

If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent > Autofixation 06/21/2015 at 18:13

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There’s always “some guy in New Hampshire” who’s put X engine into Y car.

904 GTS > If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent 06/21/2015 at 22:49

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Those BIG Cats were very hard on brakes. So, Tom’s mechanics came up with an interesting idea - water cooling those front brakes. That’s why there is a plastic jerry can in the passanger compartment in this video, with ample supply of water for the sprint race.

904 GTS > djmt1 06/21/2015 at 22:57

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Ha, in racing, if you are creative and the sanctioning body is OK with it, WHY NOT?

Remember those Audi RS6 4-door sedans in ALMS? They too came with auto gear boxes only. Yet they raced with manual gearboxes from the Ur-RS4, since those were the strongest manuals Audi produced.

wafflesnfalafel > If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent 06/21/2015 at 22:58

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nothing else better to do in New Hampshire...

BiTurbo228 - Dr Frankenstein of Spitfires > If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent 06/22/2015 at 05:32

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Came here to post videos of racing XJS’

Found they were already posted.

Excellent :)