Deconstructing the engine that dominated Le Mans.
lying on a wooden table: a spring, a valve, a rod, a pin. But combined, these parts once roared to life and dominated endurance racing.This is Jaguar’s XK engine. From 1951 through 1957, the inline-six mill cleaned house at Le Mans. A nearby poster from ’57 details that dominance. “The Fifth Jaguar Victory in Seven Years,” it proclaims, listing the 24-hour race’s finishing order: “1st Jaguar, 2nd Jaguar, 3rd Jaguar, 4th Jaguar, 6th Jaguar.
In 1994, Classic Jaguar’s CEO and president, Dan Mooney, left his career as a detective at Scotland Yard. He then left Britain altogether and by 1996 had set up shop in the States. He has dedicated his life to servicing, restoring, and improving vintage Jaguars of all stripes, especially those graced with XK engines. If any iron lump is worthy of worship, it’s the XK.
Instead, the XK spanned six consecutive decades in production guise, from its conception in the Forties, through the Fifties, Sixties, Seventies, and Eighties. Its swan song arrived in the Nineties in a series of royal limousines.Fredrik BrodénIn ’51, the C-type won Le Mans with 3.4 liters. By ’57, the winning D-type grew to 3.8 liters. Classic Jaguar builds XKs up to 5.0 liters.Valve-spring and retainer design barely evolved during production. Robust from the start.
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