EVO Podcast with F Type team - worth watching

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adrianw65

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An interesting podcast if you are a fan of the F-Type


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xuL1S1U4BU&list=PLILphrr9qWQh2tRJFhFv8-R9zHtgrCwCk
 
Confirmed in this podcast.- The V6 is a V8 with the rear two cylinders cut off. The team wanted to remove the front two (for better weight distribution) but budget constraints got in the way. A fact that some still dispute.
Also interesting that the design brief did not see the F type as a daily use car.
 
Sandytim said:
Confirmed in this podcast.- The V6 is a V8 with the rear two cylinders cut off. The team wanted to remove the front two (for better weight distribution) but budget constraints got in the way. A fact that some still dispute.
Also interesting that the design brief did not see the F type as a daily use car.
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I don't think the back cylinders were actually cut off, just not used - I believe the engine blocks are the same size for V6 and V8.

And I don't drive mine every day (I know, I know!) but whenever I drive, it's in the Jaaaag. It's a very practical family car for me. :D
 
Brilliant video with many truths about the car we love from insiders with Ian and members of the team.

Interesting that the awd had to be wound back to more rwd for reliability, so was never the awd as planned.

Thanks for finding and posting
 
So many interesting background facts and insights into why the F-Type was so brilliant out of the box. So now we know it was designed to be well taken care of which may explain why it has a fussy coolant system and doesn't like being left out in the rain. :P

Quite surprising that the F-Type name was only a very late marketing decision considering that its design is such an obvious modern interpretation of the E-Type.

The AJ126 design has been done to death... again, it's based on the AJ133 block but there's much more to it than two cut off cylinders. A smaller block or modifying it at the front end instead would of course have been better. As with so many other aspects of the car there were constraints and a matter of getting amazing results out of existing solutions.

aj133aj126.jpg
 
MajorTom said:
So many interesting background facts and insights into why the F-Type was so brilliant out of the box. So now we know it was designed to be well taken care of which may explain why it has a fussy coolant system and doesn't like being left out in the rain. :P

Quite surprising that the F-Type name was only a very late marketing decision considering that its design is such an obvious modern interpretation of the E-Type.

The AJ126 design has been done to death... again, it's based on the AJ133 block but there's much more to it than two cut off cylinders. A smaller block or modifying it at the front end instead would of course have been better. As with so many other aspects of the car there were constraints and a matter of getting amazing results out of existing solutions.

aj133aj126.jpg
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At 18:30 the chief programme engineer Russ Varney says “ it was the V8 engine with two cylinders cut off. As simple as that.”
I’m not sure how more clear it needs to be.
 
Great watch cheers 🍻
Thankfully jaguar was owned by someone who actually loved cars at the time they were looking at doing another sports car.
If the owner was just another bean counter it might never have happened I guess.
 
Sandytim said:
MajorTom said:
So many interesting background facts and insights into why the F-Type was so brilliant out of the box. So now we know it was designed to be well taken care of which may explain why it has a fussy coolant system and doesn't like being left out in the rain. :P

Quite surprising that the F-Type name was only a very late marketing decision considering that its design is such an obvious modern interpretation of the E-Type.

The AJ126 design has been done to death... again, it's based on the AJ133 block but there's much more to it than two cut off cylinders. A smaller block or modifying it at the front end instead would of course have been better. As with so many other aspects of the car there were constraints and a matter of getting amazing results out of existing solutions.

aj133aj126.jpg
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At 18:30 the chief programme engineer Russ Varney says “ it was the V8 engine with two cylinders cut off. As simple as that.”
I’m not sure how more clear it needs to be.
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And as the posted diagrams show, they weren't "cut off", just the area they occupied re-engineered. The blocks are the same size for both V6 and V8, which presumably makes the transimission fittings much easier across the range.
 
To elaborate further...

"Jaguar Land Rover’s AJ126 isn’t just an eight cylinder with two dead holes, as its six cylinders have a smaller bore and stroke than the V8."

"Sharing the exterior block details enables one mounting system to serve both V6 and V8 engines. New partitions inside the die-cast aluminium V6 block supplant the deleted cylinder bores."

https://www.ftypeforums.co.uk/viewtopic.php?p=52235#p52235
 
Exactly my point, there's much more to it and no "cutting off" cylinders no matter how Russ Varney summarises it in that video.

Why don't we bring up up the discussion about whether these are Ford engines or if the AJ133 actually is a modified Mustang Coyote engine since it has the same displacement, while we're at it? :P
 
I haven’t watched the video yet, but if the chief programme engineer Russ Varney says “it was the V8 engine with two cylinders cut off” I can understand why some people took this literally. Maybe he should have chosen different words such as deleted cylinder bores or a re-engineered block!

With regards to the AJ133 possibly being a “modified Mustang Coyote engine since it has the same displacement”...if anything this is the opposite :P
 
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