Talk:Jaguar XK engine

message: I've a vague recollection of the four ending up in one of Goldie Gardner's record cars - am I imagining it? Mr Larrington (talk) 13:43, 30 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Four 

message: A potential minefield this but I have stuck closely to the data in the 'Jaguar Catalog' appended to Heiner Stertkamp's "Jaguar: The Complete Story". Note that the 'Jaguar Catalog' section contradicts some of the head colour detail in a list of engine number prefixes in the 'Jaguar Engineering' appendix that precedes it, e.g. the Engineering appendix asserts that the 2.4-litre Mark II's B-type head was painted light blue-green but the Catalog does not. I once owned a mint and original 2.4-litre Mark II with the B-type head and I know that its head was unpainted. I have never seen a pukka 2.4-litre with a painted head. Has anyone else? Also, the Engineering appendix asserts that the 3.4-litre S-Type shared a dark blue metallic head with its 3.8-litre S-Type companion, whereas the Catalog, I believe correctly, states that the 3.4-litre S-Type's head was light blue-green. I don't wish to criticise Herr Stertkamp's meticulous work, which provides Jaguar enthusiasts with an excellent resource ... we just need to beware that it cannot be 100% correct due to these (and therefore possibly other) anomalies. Steepwiki (talk) 08:22, 9 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Head Colours

message: The table carries wrong data. D Type heads were of at least 2 types, none were 'straight-port':
1. Production type was heavily modified C type.
2. Race version of 1 even more modified
3. Wide-angle is race-only type works cars etc, completely different casting to 1 and 2
4. Later version of 3 used with injection on D Type
5. Altered variant of 4 used on Lightweight E Type 
Bill Jones    sparetire100@yahoo.co.uk92.21.40.12 (talk) 03:58, 17 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Jag D Type Heads 

message: The XKSS is absent from the list of road cars using the XK engine - which version did it have ? RGCorris (talk) 09:47, 4 March 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  XKSS 

message: "In 1953, the XK 120 C switched to a triple Weber 40 DCOE carburettor setup. "
Where did this come from ? I have never ever heard this, and I had an XK120 in 1967, was a devout Jaguar fanboy. There were kits for $600 in the back of  some of the magazines and the factory race cars had Webers but I have never ever heard of any street cars coming with Webers.  I could almost imagine the possibility of a special order E Type but not not not the 120 ...  Unless this can be documented I think it should be removed. 116.231.74.1 (talk) 12:51, 23 January 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: as it says here this was something that was not supplied by the factory. let me know if you find any more information. until then i have amended it. Acetoe (talk) 19:56, 12 December 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  XK 120's with Webers ? 

message: at one point in the article, it claims that both the b-type cylinder heads and the straight port heads had valve angles at an equal 35 degrees, at another point it says that number is instead 45 degrees. please clarify. Acetoe (talk) 04:19, 11 December 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  valve angles on the cylinder heads