In article .com,
Bret Ludwig wrote:
Mechanically the Jaguar, Rolls and Aston were good, but they used the
Lucas garbage electrics. Aston was David Brown and had a good
transmission: Jaguar used a US Borg Warner slushbox (mediocre) or the
horrid Moss POS manual. Rollers had US GM transmissions, the best.
If you're going back to the days when Jags used Moss manual boxes, Rolls
of that era had the pretty nasty GM Hydramatic 4 speed with fluid flywheel
rather than torque convertor. Round about '69 they changed to the GM 400 -
a three speed plus torque convertor not that different from the Model 8 or
DG boxes fitted to Jags.
If only Jaguar had used a better transmission, better rustproofing,
and better electrics. Actually what would have been even more useful
is had they offered the Gardner 4LK engine as an alternative as Mr.
Gardner tried to tell them.
The Jaguar engine is stout but heavy. With three Webers and an
American distributor or a Scintilla Vertex mag they are pretty
reliable.
Dunno where you get the idea Lucas distributors are not reliable. Or
indeed the need to change from SU carbs. Six chokes worth of Webers will
increase the maximum power but loose the tractability. Three SUs are a
better bet for road use.
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