Daimler V8 on eBay

[Keoke]

Yep Dart, en he be stock too. I havent hit the 1500 HP mark like Carpenter but Im gaining on the 3.8!---Keoke-- /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/cowboy.gif
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[racingenglishcars]

I always liked the Dart. Never too fond of the MKII Daimler as it's just too big for that power. But that little TR3 chassis, glass body, and as you say 140 HP, goes pretty well.

 

[Keoke]

Naw it is fine, since it is a small saloon being only 2 foot longer than a Big Healey. The basic problem is there is too much slip in the stock converter and in stock form the shift from low to second gear is too short. Actually, the specified horse power should be 150. While the two engines look alike on the outside there are differences in them. However, With a little guidance from across the pond it can be boosted easily to 200. But it was created as a Gentleman's Saloon and the upscale interior compared to that in the Jags confirms this to be true. Mine had stickers all over it from UK yacht clubs when I first got it.---Keoke

 

[tony barnhill]

If it were closer, I'd definitely bid on it - but I won't: its too far.

Somehow, when you start bidding, make sure everybody knows you're after the car so we don't 'snipe' you!

 

[Ernst Blofeld]

Daimler also produced a bigger brother to the 2.5 litre V8 - the 4.5 litre unit used in the Daimler Majestic Major.

By all accounts it was a great unit and although it would never have been able to fit the MkII it was tried in the MkX wherein it gave performance superior to that of the XK-engined version.

However, I believe that Sir William Lyons was embarrassed that the Turner V8 outperformed the XK, and felt antipathy towards the V8 configuration for some reason best known to himself.

The sad thing is that engine might have made an enormous difference to the E-type, and the XJ6. It might not have looked on paper to have been as exotic as the twin cam XK, but would no doubt have plugged the gap brilliantly between the ageing XK 4.2 and the later V12, and would surely have appealed more to US buyers.

The engine had already been in production for some years. A missed opportunity, surely, especially as later on, in the Seventies, Jaguar did toy with a V8 version of the V12. However, the 60-degree V8 - a bad idea, according to those who know about these things - never achieved the necessary refinement.

 

[Keoke]

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Yep you are absolutely right. If the XJ series Jaguar had come with the 4.5 litre Hemi V8, instead of that archaic XK engine, Ford would have never owned them.---Keoke--AZ /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/cowboy.gif


OH!, There is a bloke down in OZ that has shoe horned the 4.5 V8 into a MK11 body. He says it's such a tight fit you can't get a credit card between the engine and the body.-- /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/cheers.gif