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Re: Engine Trivia

To: vintage-race@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: Engine Trivia
From: Michael Frank <mfrank@westnet.com>
Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2001 11:35:17 -0400
Bill:

         The V12 that went into Jaguar's XJ13 was a one off, based on the 
XK six cylinder engine. The V12  introduced on E-Types beginning in 1971 
was designed ground-up for street use.

Mike Frank

At 09:55 AM 4/5/01, WSpohn4@aol.com wrote:
>We weren't as confident about the Jag V-12 as we couldn't recall if the
>single 4 cam version (looks like 2 six cylinder heads on one engine) was
>based on the production 6 and whether they started with a clean slate when
>they did the 2 cam version that made it into production.

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