Have you heard of a 7 litre XJ?

[Dominicc01]

Last year, I took my car into a Jag dealer. I was talking to a old(er) guy who works there. He was telling me that, about 10 years or so ago he had a 1989 XJ with a TWR 7.0 V12. Apparently he sold the car to a chap who managed to write it off two weeks later, by locking the brakes and going over a roundabout.

Interested, I looked the car up, but couldn't find anything about it. I know that the Lister XJS had a TWR 7.0 V12, but have you ever heard of one going into an XJ?

Obviously it would be unbelievably thirsty ..... but pretty damn cool.

[sjc]

Yep,These people do it, www.jdclassics.co.uk and have spoke to someone who owns one at the moment. The previous owner spent over 100 grand on it! Looked stock other than bigger rubber and brakes, fantastic.

[Motown Junk]

Used to work round the corner from Lister on Leatherhead. Not sure about a saloon but definateley saw 'Listerised' XJCs as well as the XJSs.

Edited by Motown Junk on Tuesday 15th June 17:20

[jimbro1000]

Have a word with these guys

http://wolfdirectjaguar.webs.com/

They have the rights to those Listers and regularly have those 7 litre monsters in the workshop - they just sold one on in near perfect original condition...

[300bhp/ton]

Dominicc01 said:

Last year, I took my car into a Jag dealer. I was talking to a old(er) guy who works there. He was telling me that, about 10 years or so ago he had a 1989 XJ with a TWR 7.0 V12. Apparently he sold the car to a chap who managed to write it off two weeks later, by locking the brakes and going over a roundabout.

Interested, I looked the car up, but couldn't find anything about it. I know that the Lister XJS had a TWR 7.0 V12, but have you ever heard of one going into an XJ?

Obviously it would be unbelievably thirsty ..... but pretty damn cool.

I was fairly common (well in a small world of Jag V12 tuning) to take the V12 to 6.4, 7.0 and 7.3 litres. Although the block was good for over 9 litres displacement and I think even a low revving 10 litre aero version.

I see no reason why one might not have ended up in an XJ. The Series I (I think??), II & III were all available with the 5.3 V12 in. The XJ40 was sold with the 6.0 litre unit in 93 and 94.

[Rollcage]

sjc said:

Yep,These people do it, www.jdclassics.co.uk and have spoke to someone who owns one at the moment. The previous owner spent over 100 grand on it! Looked stock other than bigger rubber and brakes, fantastic.

Those guys have a quite astonishing stock list - simply epic. All photographed in the same place as well!

[Trommel]

Rollcage said:

sjc said:

www.jdclassics.co.uk

Those guys have a quite astonishing stock list - simply epic. All photographed in the same place as well!

Their upgrades catalogue is impressive too (if you're not a stickler for originality).

[Brink]

[sjc]

Rollcage said:

sjc said:

Yep,These people do it, www.jdclassics.co.uk and have spoke to someone who owns one at the moment. The previous owner spent over 100 grand on it! Looked stock other than bigger rubber and brakes, fantastic.

Those guys have a quite astonishing stock list - simply epic. All photographed in the same place as well!

4 miles from me and it's petrolhead heaven.The owner himself has an unbelievable personal collection, as well as the company stock.Even the bloody smell makes me want to go home and sort the wife out.
They do open days every so often through the summer, last one they had a Veyron,Alfa 8C, etc etc

[chippy17]

I remember a black Jag saloon being reviewed in either PC or Evo a few years back that was certainly running a 6/7 litre engine but cannot be sure it was a Lister

my memory may be playing tricks as I am getting old...

eta really bugging me now as I am certain such a beast exists but can find nothing...car was circa '86

Edited by chippy17 on Tuesday 15th June 17:57

Edited by chippy17 on Tuesday 15th June 17:58

Edited by chippy17 on Tuesday 15th June 17:58

[sjc]

Brink said:

Think the O.P is talking about an XJ saloon.(The one I mentioned in my first post was a 1990 G reg XJ series 3)

[Alfanatic]

Lister were dropping their 7 litre in the XJ40 bodyshell in the late '80s. Mark Hales tested one for Fast Lane, and rather liked it. It looked standard except for the wheels, which looked like the ones from a Lister XJ-S. They had a black band around them with Lister written inside. EDIT: Ah, not quite right. They were the same as the wheels on that Lister posted above. Is that a Mk 3?

I'd forgotten about these XJs. I remember really fancying one after reading the test. It was very fast, still rode like an XJ (according to the test), and I think it was available before the factory XJ40 V12 was.

Edited by Alfanatic on Tuesday 15th June 17:59

[Skodaku]

Trommel said:

Rollcage said:

sjc said:

www.jdclassics.co.uk

Those guys have a quite astonishing stock list - simply epic. All photographed in the same place as well!

Their upgrades catalogue is impressive too (if you're not a stickler for originality).

Have always felt welcome in their showroom and peering through the workshop windows is like a child's view of automotive heaven.

I'd settle for one of their Mk 2's with XJR running gear etc. Grace and pace.

[Alfanatic]

Here's the magazine.

http://s224700864.e-shop.info/shop/article_FL71/Fe...

[Brink]

sjc said:

Brink said:

Think the O.P is talking about an XJ saloon.(The one I mentioned in my first post was a 1990 G reg XJ series 3)

When it comes to a V12, I not fussy.

[RoverP6B]

I used to live round the corner from Lister and I'm still in Leatherhead now, just the other end of town. Does anyone know if they're still a going concern or are based here? I do remember seeing some decidedly 'other' looking XJ40s and X300s, usually sitting pretty low and in BRG or black, with low-profile tyres and big wheels stretched round big brakes, plus some fairly subtle skirts, spoilers etc, making a noise like Armageddon itself. I remember one encounter with an XJ, I think an X300, on the M25 back in the mid 90s, about 1am on a Sunday morning. I was absolutely flat out in my BMW E30 318i Touring, doing about 115mph in the empty outside lane, windows open, and I hear a distant mechanical scream from behind. I get out of the way quickly. Next thing, there's an audible air-displacement 'whump', this big Jag looms out of nowhere and screams past in the outside lane like I was standing still, making a noise like an XJR-9 at full chat down the Ligne Droite des Hunaudières, overlaid with the unmistakeable wail of a pair of superchargers... I know what 155mph looks like, and this was MUCH more than that. I would not have been at all surprised if it was past the double ton...