That model is just bloody peerless! The most beautiful car ever built.

The first E-type to actually make the power it was promised to. :)

Absolutely awesome stealth fuel injection install on the most beautiful car ever made. This is my favourite use of modern technology

Now that's what I call one beautiful car, and the sound is orgasmic! Just to put things in perspective a flat front Mk.2 Escort circuit car I built for Russell Clark back in the early 90's fitted with a very hot 2.4 litre Pinto engine on 50 DCOE Webers and Zytech ignition, made 215 bhp at the wheels @ 7.2K rpm (245 flywheel) with very good torque and perfect throttle response with a 8.4K rev limit. The car weighed in at 810Kg wet and used a 4 speed gearbox, as the 4 speeder suited the torquey engine so well. Russel was never beaten in that car, (in it's class), the engine was completely reliable and no one even got close to him on the track. Russ racked up dozens of wins and 4 overall championships in 1990's Modprods before HTR moved on to developing the CVH engine in front wheel drive Fords, I test drove the Escort on a number of occasions on the road and the track and I found the acceleration and top speed to be quite incredible for a Pinto Escort, on race gearing the car would hit (tested at Bruntingthorpe by Fast Car Magazine) a true 140mph in around 17 seconds from a standing start and with 60mph coming up in around 4.5 seconds, these figures were achieved on road tyres and tested by FCM's 5th wheel calibration/testing setup they used to test the performance of cars for the magazine.. One time I was down at Tim Swadkins place, I think in 1998 having an engine dynoed and there was a lightweight E Type racer in the workshop (3.8L on triple SU's), there was also someone with a Cossy that had been chipped to give around 350 hp, well there was some discussion going on between the owners about the performance of the two cars and they decided to take the cars out on the road to see which one had the biggest cock, well the E Type actually proved faster, so happy days there then (cos I fukkin love an E Type!) 'Sausage' HT Racing Ltd

Epic video! The three of you are a quality combo!

Another cracking video Mike, epic car, what a soundtrack! Good to see Zak on the channel showcasing some more of his skill and innovation 👌🏻hope his new venture is going well too👍🏻

Nice. I was having a rally car mapped by men in a shed in North Wales back in 2011, and they had an Aston Martin DB6 (I think) in which they had converted the carbs into throttle bodies and EFI. It all looked stock, which was nice.

Great upgrades for a classic and looks stunning. Well engineered by them 👍💯.

Nice work sounds like i should no more crazy rich AFRs and wooly ignition timing, lower egts and it will start on the button well done

Love this conversion , from a traditional Jag man.

Ohhhhhh you would not believe how much I want that car!

Wow, awsome content, what a note 👍

That is the way to modernise an E-type!

Wicked love the e types 😎👍

Another cracking vid Mike 👍

@mikefpe

Жыл бұрын

Thanks Adam. Much appreciated 👍🏻

Unnoticed by most is the upgraded 5 speed gearbox. The original and correct Moss gearbox dated back to the 1940’s and didn’t have syncromesh in first gear. The syncromesh in the top few gears was very weak by modern standards, requiring a deft touch and proper timing. A quick downshift required proper rev matching and considerable experience and mechanical sympathy by the driver. I was able to execute silent downshifts into first gear while moving in autocross racing, but the risk of chipping the straight cut gear tooth with a bungled downshift was omnipresent and hardly worth the risk. Jaguar designed their own improved full syncro 4 speed box and introduced it in 1965 with the Series 2 4.2 liter XKE. This update was augmented by a better and stronger clutch. Various rear end gearsets were offerred: 3.07-3.70, all with factory limited slip differentials. The cars with the lowest numerical gearsets were the only ones capable of 145-150 mph top speeds in stock form. The highest numerical gearsets gave the lowest quarter mile times. Later cars became slower as they gained weight and became less aerodynamic. Federal safety and emission regulations beginning in 1968 further reduced performance and forced accelerated development of the V12 powered E Types. These were necessarily much larger and heavier cars and moved the E Type from sports car to GT car. The fastest E Type in stock form was the early Series 1 built from 1961 to 1964 with the 3.8 liter engine. The 3.8 revved out better and higher than the 4.2 liter that replaced it.

@mikefpe

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for that very interesting. Learn something new everyday 👍🏻

@grahamw56

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, but they (Jaguar) soon got rid of the Moss gearbox. :)

@garthlundquist3623

Жыл бұрын

@@grahamw56 Jaguar used the Moss box from 1948 until 1964. That was a long run.

i did a scimilar thing with aston volanti V8 on pectel ,nice n sweet

That E type is a work of art

@mikefpe

7 ай бұрын

There’s not many cars that I would call beautiful… but the etype is one.

Top video looks like you had fun 👍👐

@mikefpe

Жыл бұрын

Yer it’s always good fun to hang out with tom and Zak.

Glorious.

Competition Jaguar E Types had fuel injection very many years ago, albeit mechanical.

@mikefpe

Жыл бұрын

I do love a mechanical fuel injection system. 😎

This is awesome! What's it making for HP/torque figures? Any major change?

nice very nice ,old engines new tech

Beauty

Sounds like a potent pussycat!

My old E60 which is 17 years old still nocks out 218 BHP from a straight 6 2.5i

Het has picked up 15HP 105NM over stock great HP gain and GIGANTIC TORQUE GAIN STOCK 3.8 HAS 285HP 385NM HIS 3.8 300HP 490NM

Any more info on convert the su's? Obviously minis use them and they've been proven to provide enough fuel for 300hp. Is it just one injector per cylinder? And where are they mounted

@mikefpe

Жыл бұрын

It’s literally just the carb butterfly that is being used from the SU. The inlet manifold has injectors mounted on the underside with a neat little fuel rail. Each inlet track has an injector.

in our country any guy that has the viking look is not the person you want to do business with especially classic cars.lol

I would hate that rolling road to suddenly jam.

Have they put Stromberg carb tops on top of throttle bodies?

@mikefpe

Жыл бұрын

No there’s injectors mounted in the inlet further down And he’s using the butterfly’s of the carbs as just throttle plates. The needles and floats etc from the carbs are all blanked off

Not sure approve of high revs on them long stroke motors , bit rody anyway

For me ,it`s between an e type like this,,and an aston martin db zagato as the best looking cars ever to hit the road .

@ralfburon6179

Жыл бұрын

Don‘t forget the Mercedes 300 SL gullwing!

@ralphmillais5237

Жыл бұрын

@@ralfburon6179 Don't forget the Ford Zodiac Mark 4!

@ralfburon6179

Жыл бұрын

@@ralphmillais5237 funny?

How is the throttle response compared to carbs? I had 2 early e-types and they never revved like this thing...

@mikefpe

4 күн бұрын

its crisp and very responsive. far better than when it was on the carbs as the veriable ventury is not floating up and down inside. its just the original butterflies modulating the airflow. and the ECU/injectors now provides the perfect fueling mixture throughout the rev range and throttle position.

wow... would this work on the HS4's on my MGB?

@mikefpe

Жыл бұрын

Of course I don’t see why not. 😁👍🏻

What a beautiful car, alway had a thing for E types, just my wallet hasn't. This cars is capable of causing a chubby😳

So why not just go with triple webers or ITBs?

@mikefpe

8 ай бұрын

Weber’s won’t run as nicely as these do. And ITB’s don’t look original.

Does it pull like a train though??

@mikefpe

Жыл бұрын

I was really impressed with how it goes. Defo pulls like a choo choo!

So it produced 234 HP at the wheels after all that work at 4,800 RPM. Thats about 15HP more tan when built?

@SVPearler

Жыл бұрын

But now its like that for the rest if it's life. No more messing with SU tuning every time you change your undies. Increases throttle response. Just jump in and enjoy.

@Looney2021

Жыл бұрын

Most standard e 4.2 will make around 205 at the wheels, rare a standard will get to 220, the same as saying they all do 150mph (which is also a claim) they don’t not even close.. Bet this one does though ! 👍

@thomasshepard6030

Жыл бұрын

The Vauxhall corsa VXR 1.6T would achieve 143MPH WITH 189 BHP FOR a fraction of the price of the work done on the E TYPE

@racketman2u

8 ай бұрын

@@thomasshepard6030 yeah, but who really lusts after a vauxhall?

Sadly soon all combustion cars and trucks including classics will be banned from public streets in entire EU and Scandinavia :-( In Germany the Green Peoples Party gave order to shorten fuel supply from 2025 on by reducing all conventional fuel stations to only one state operated central gas station per city or county. Car washs will be forbidden too because they are climate killers, now they want to slow down all the gas station pumps from 20 litre per minute to 2 litre per minute...From 2027 on in the EU certain car spare parts will be banned too....as exhaust systems, turbo chargers and even some engine and gearbox oils...California and New York will do the same from 2027 on.... So no investments should be done in oil burning cars any longer....They even created a new kind of crime here, called emissions and smoke crime.!!! (BABVVEN & TEBBVEN & BEFVO laws)!!!!!

@roberthayden1527

Жыл бұрын

.....and replace them with a higher carbon footprint, coal-fired, electric vehicle. It won't happen.

@Schlipperschlopper

Жыл бұрын

@@roberthayden1527 China will force all industrial countries right in that

@cliveturner4980

Жыл бұрын

is anyone else sick of being told what to do ??????

Very very nice. Too bad it's silver in color.

@craigpennington1251

Жыл бұрын

Very welcome.

They ruined a raw energy car, now they are driving a Mazda Fools.