David Nonis has made a lot of progress on his amazing 1968 Jaguar E-Type project since our last update. David has finished the custom wood dash, side exhaust system, suspension, and sorted the incredibly cramped engine bay. There is very little room left in the engine bay with the twin-turbo built 8.4 L Viper V10 … Read more
About a year ago Pipey McGraw from Muttley Racing started building a Jaguar E-Type with a naturally aspirated three-rotor engine. The team decided to change power plants over the winter. Out went the rotary and in went a 4.0 L S65 V8 from a BMW E92 M3. There is still more work needed before the … Read more
Pipey McGraw debuted his unique Jaguar E-Type at the Shelsley Walsh hillclimb. Although the engine is running a rich map and kept below 3,500 rpm it still made its presence known through the straight exhaust pipe exiting the passenger-side fender. Update 9/3/2017 – Photos of the Jaguar at the Retro Rides Gathering by Speedhunters A … Read more
David Nonis continues to make progress on his wild Jaguar E-Type project. The Jaguar will have a smoother appearance thanks to firewall, wiper, and antenna holes being patched. Currently he’s building a custom dash out of Russian Birch topped with a Walnut Burl veneer that will resemble the factory dash. Inside the dash will be … Read more
The team at Muttley Racing continue to hammer away on their Jaguar E-Type project since our previous article. The car now finds itself covered in green paint and a 20B three-rotor engine built by Triple B Engineering is finished and ready for installation. The project will also include a custom fuel tank built by the … Read more
Nick and Charlie Seward’s unique 1966 Jaguar E-Type went to Santa Pod Raceway’s Dragstalgia 2017 event to see what it could do. The 1JZ inline-six’s 478 horsepower and 490 lb-ft of torque on 23 psi (1.6 bar) of boost was good enough to set a new personal best of 11.03 sec at 129.04 mph. It … Read more