1963 Jaguar E-Type - Jay Leno’s Garage

[Music] it's like the last days of old school right the last days of old technology beat the birthday [Music] welcome to the episode of Jay Leno's Garage the car were featuring today beautifully restored Jaguar XKE 1963 restored by a classic Jaguar in Austin Texas fascinating story interesting history it's made of aluminum well let's bring the man in who's the president of the company who did the restoration Dan Moody Dan come on in boy nice work thank you sir and this is more than I mean this is every nut and bolt and the panels that were steel you remade the whole car in aluminum is that correct yes normally we would restore the car and steel but on this particular one it's part of our alloy platform right so we wanted to build the car too you know as a tribute to the lightweight braces from 1963 and how much lighter is it in the steel car it's not that much actually about four or five hundred pounds this particular car weighs twenty-two hundred pounds of X it's unbelievable five hundred pounds is quite a bit yeah it's you know there are things in this car though that unfortunately actually weigh more than the original car like the roll cage and right we've got a 35 gallon fuel cell in it that you know can take 220 pounds of fuel so our using the curling brakes from 63 or no no we've we've used Wilwood brakes okay oh we love them yeah and we you know this particular car was was built not as an exact replica of the 63 lightweight it was built to drive right and the person who owns the car really drives his cars so we've actually incorporated a lot of the reliability and performance upgrades that we're doing our regular cars in this car well I want people confused with is some kind of kit car or some kind of replica I mean it's all jag it started life as a 63 XK instead of making the panels out of Steel you just made them out of aluminium correct yes and this particular car is a matching-number 1963 e type rods okay except for the head you changed the head for a wide angled head but the block itself is the original block the gauges are original the running gear really is all original okay so it started as a 3.8 you took it about 4.2 almost yeah four point four one five we stroked it a little bit about three and a half tenths well all the real Jaguar guys seen before the three point a burger that rubs a little free all right it really does in fact we set a rev limiter on this car at 6,200 yeah but it'll Rev all the way up to sixty six sixty seven hundred and in fact it was still picking up power on the dyno at 62 so now where do you get the panel how do you stamp out these little well this particular body was actually sourced in Europe so we bought we bought the monocoque in Europe I think that we spent about 1500 hours fat on it and making it look like it does today okay the total restoration took about three thousand dollars and I assume every nut and bolt that's gone through on this car yeah only nothing old that you didn't have to restore you've done everything to it correct absolutely better than new really and what gearbox well we actually went with a four-speed synchro out of a later 65 Jaguar interesting because I like them yeah I think there are really smooth shifting gearbox and they're strong and this car has about 360 foot-pounds of torque and the you know the five speeds that many people are putting in in these cars when they restore them is not really strong enough for that amount at all oh that's interesting and it's too short to get a an overdrive unit in it it is yeah you just don't have enough room before hasn't it okay well I keep it more authentic a proper four-speed oh boy those are beefy tires pretty amazing how big are those well they're 6.5 Dunlop's on the back and six on the front but that's a bit misleading the rear tires are about nine point four inches wide and the rear wheels are eight inches in the front wheels are seven are using the original J were steering box as well we are well actually no it's it's actually got a quick rack in it but it's effectively it's a replica of the original rack okay but that's an aftermarket it is enough to mount a sail well I imagine with the beefier tires every you need a stronger rack because I remember this the original sort of do this a little bit you know absolutely yeah you know so that's why I wondered if how safe would be if it just had the straight stock original rack yeah and because the guy's going to drive this car on the street we've really paid attention to things like that now any creature comforts air conditioning Peter and now a window I never window okay and of course the top comes off yeah it does but really these cars are never seen with the top off really the lightweight e times this is the look oh and when I grew up as a kid this was the look that okay but this does come out absolutely it lifts off the same as an e-type - all right right it's it's made of aluminum of course but it comes out very easily actually yeah and it's genuine I mean the cars been TIG welded and gas welded together and when all of the rivets you see are legitimate rivets yeah and there's nothing the state is going to come after you about because it's all 63 Jaguar yes frame or no framework that's right man yeah but matching-number all that kind of stuff so great because a lot of people with build cars and we title it as a 61 but it's actually a 2018 you know I'm right in trouble and you know this car is inspected it's registered and titled it's like I said completely road-legal ok can we open the bonnet and sure look underneath there's a handle and a belt now see I don't recognize this this handle is that yeah there's a lightweight item they were on all the light weights you okay on both sides yes so basically this is copied from the light weights okay whoo still the prettiest engine just beautiful hell gorgeous yeah and the things that we've done here we haven't tried to replicate the 63 lightweight engine bay for example we've made it wet so it's not a dry sump engine like the original was we want the car to be easy to maintain and this guy you know could drive the car in Colorado New York Texas wherever you know we're building these cars as well for people abroad and what's the reason for the cover over the alternator just just to insulate it from heat from these headers oh okay all that makes sense sure okay very good very good you've got a period looking battery I said it's a period looking battery but it's actually a very modern battery yeah optimist I'm sure anything very nice okay and of course the beautiful headers well stainless steel they are the three or four stainless they were made for me in England by the company that Meg oh my head is actually for the regular cars that we built and what size webber's are those that's come around they're 45s and they're actually period Weber's the 1963 Italian made DCO in nines or 45s and we love the web is in the shop we put it on most of the the upgraded cars that we build and you have the screens to build the the air was much cleaner in 63 right I know you know we do have some kind and filters for it but they looked a bit garish to me yeah but we don't want to drive and you want to put you if you're gonna take it across country or something you would put some well I imagine being open like this you're just kicking up road dust and it does it does screens of lip service to filtration really yeah lip service to filtration all right yeah very good all right nicely done nicely don't try to think what else it let me say it looks P read the header tank and well this is an aftermarket I know what do you have that's actually an electric vacuum pump because the cams that we've got in this about four and a half lift 450 left they don't generate much vacuum at all so the brake assistance is is very limited okay so this is an electric electric vacuum pump it seems like the car be light enough you wouldn't need it no well it's pretty quick yeah it's got quite a lot of power so I mean again because he's driving it on the street he's gonna be driving in traffic it's nice to have that little bit of assistance on the brake feels like a power brake yeah what do we have there that's actually a crankcase breather okay and you know again this cylinder head is different to the normal etype cylinder head so it doesn't have that crankcase breather on the front okay okay and do you use the original engine from the car yeah this is the original block actually the melting number block right right and we have the original head as well but obviously this is the wide-angle version okay and this air duct goes through it through the carburetor no we're we shooting air from basically this is blowing cold air in front of these weapons yes right right okay so that's picking up any road dirt or anything yeah some stones of stones yeah yeah put those filters on I was but those filters are poor it's beautiful the uprights everything now those all-new suspension pieces are just sandblasted and cleaned up no they're actually plated we had plated them yeah and we cut they see a little triangle let's cut out of the upper control arm right that's sort of a homage to the original light weights as well gotcha and 2,200 pounds that's unbelievable well we could get it a little bit lighter than that but just a couple of lunches well yes but the fuel is it feels really quite heavy man jeez the advantage to having a 35 gallon tank is about a four hundred and twenty five hundred fifty mile range on this car which for an e-type is unheard alright and what is this what's the tank I'm looking in here that's actually the vacuum tank that supports the brake valve gotcha so I've put a brake master cylinder and booster from is a 65 effectively a 4.2 car now what's your background was this a hobby were you a Jag specialist in England no I was a detective in England and Scotland Yard actual is that right and I restored these as a hobby okay and then I came over to the states in 94 with my wife's career actually took a two-year sabbatical from Scotland Yard right and haven't called them back yet and they still looking for you there may well be I didn't I didn't go back so you're not still on the force officially no I left in 94 you know just doing the Jag thing full-time yes I started restoring Jaguars and asked Mountains and Ferraris and stuff when I came over here and you're very fortunate and the business kind of took off oh yeah and decided not to go back it's a tricky I'm you get a lot of flaky customers people start a project like this I mean I assume something like this is probably in the $400,000 range is that right yeah it's about four hundred and fifty thousand for one of these cars I mean you have a lot of these rich guys that have no idea and they put a deposit and then you start your work and then they I mean is it is it a frustrating business no not at all in fact we've been very fortunate and most of the customers that I build cars for ended up being good friends and I tell them in a very early stage in fact before we start that this is going to cost you half a million dollars or whatever it's gonna cost right and I don't want that to be a surprise 3/4 of the way through it right right right so no I don't have any problems with with my customers now do people bring you the donor car and do this or you find a donor car then call a guy and I have found a car we can start you know it varies more often than not somebody will call me and say you know I had one of these cars in college or I've always dreamt of on in one of these cars don't find me one and it must be 63 or whatever this particular car we bought it specifically for this project out of literally hundreds of e types that have been through my hands I would say was probably the rustiest we put it on a lift and raised it in the air and it literally fell into there there are photographs of it in the front of the book in the car that actually show it in two pieces on the left you know it's funny I can remember looking at an e-type for $800 I thought yeah it's okay it runs them give you 650 now you wanted eight you know obviously those days are gone forever but it must be harder and harder to get donor cars now isn't it well it is but I'm always wondering when we're going to reach the bottom of the barrel but they keep turning up and literally every week I get a phone call from somebody saying I've had this car in the garage you know 40 years and it's time to do something with it or I'd like to sell it now could you build this starting with a Jag a Jaguar saloon car absolutely yeah okay so any jag from this any 60s Jaguar you can you can you can do that you could I mean links in England used to do that all the time you know they would build D types and C types and stuff using jugular typically they'd be the cheapest jag that could find it would be a 2+2 automatic right right series 2 or whatever I like to try to buy one that was in the factory at the same time as the one that we're trying to replicate and you only do alone we don't do the fiberglass body I don't do fiberglass at all you know almost all of the cars we build a steel we're doing some aluminum Italian cars some Zagat o--'s and Ferraris and things as well their needs come out of Poland the bodies yes yes they do they have some of the best metal workers unbelievable it's unbelievable because they they had some sort of MIG Russian jet factory over there these guys would make panels and that kind of fell apart and now that now they do these things and I mean the quality and it looks to be a bit thicker than maybe it was back in the day well back it back in the day it would have been 60 sow yeah 3 double or 3 aluminum right this is actually a teeth out for the out yeah that's what I thought it looks a bit thick yeah this way the old car you can go like that with your thumb and write print and you could oil can the panel's yeah yeah but on the on the inside of the cabin and the fire wall it's actually a hundred and twenty-five thousand so they're really steadily built and in fact we reinforced the underside where the front subframes and the IR s mount with steel because the original cars had a tendency to crack in those areas and of course they didn't really care about that at the time because they only wanted to get half a dozen traces out right and they were all right you know the idea that any of this stuff would be saved seemed inconceivable absolutely back in the day you know I always tell people the yellow Lamborghini Miura have a guy gave it to me because a blown engine and it wasn't worth anything because the engine was blown I mean the idea of fixing it seemed pretty incredible yeah does the does the the boot open as well it does yes we've the original lightweight wouldn't have had an internal latch but we brought that in there for security as much as anything but then this actually turns around right and this is the 35 gallon cell I was telling you about ok so I guess you could carry a couple of golf tees you couldn't get any clubs in here but it can get very little in you put a couple of golf tees and there's yeah it's beautiful now this Lamont you know it's a mom release right but we've actually got a screen cap down there as well okay and that's for FIA reasons because if we were to take this car to the track you know that these are now outlawed you can have them if it's for show right but behind that LeMond filler cap has to be a genuine screwing class there's somebody's groom with the other thing I'm thinking what's that you know so right now this needs to be shut to shut that no it's it can close without okay okay boy beautiful trunk now you see dad thank you and of course this is to get air out of the out of the cabin yeah and the boot compartment there we go and of course you lose the bumpers I love the fact you kept the original taillights and stuff I see somebody that are restored and they don't they're not Jags anymore they you know I agree one of the things that I always think about when I'm building a car or even if I'm development a performance part is would Sir William Lyons have approved you know what would he think this was you know looked good yeah and I'm convinced a lot of the performance and reliability upgrades on this car he would have used if their technology had been available yeah well I think that probably makes sense and there's no anti-lock brakes and even or no no just we have prevented brakes on the front and rear right but a 2200 pounds that's that's pretty amazing let's see what's in the interior that we got your your harness I love the fact you kept the classic Jaguar dashboard yes and the toggles are great I hated the rockers they put in later things everybody does yeah yeah I mean 63 was was the year I've got 260 trees in there they're both both my favorite and of course you'd do all the aluminum panels in here as well I suppose somebody wanted Wilton carpeting you can get those not for this car now for this one so you restore all kind of Jaguars it just e type so what no we did pretty much all of the fifties and sixties cars we're also doing a an ss100 at the moment as well how about the mark 2 that I always like though I love them but unfortunately they're just not worth enough money for somebody to put a huge amount of restoration money into them I've got to cover them actually I really like them yeah and you have plastic window we do we made the windows and we made the frames right so these aren't chrome these are polished aluminum right fabricated frames why not battery cutoff that seemed like it would be well if we were gonna take it on the track we would but I don't cut up on it but this guy's never gonna go to the track yeah you know okay and you're getting three and fifty horsepower on this one is at least 350 horsepower I've only got the timing at 28 degrees so it's really a conservative tune so what have you done I mean they were 265 I think new and even that was like in I think they were more like 215 or 212 that's how I thought how do you get the extra hundred fifty because obviously well what's your compression ratio well it's actually not outrageous nine point seven to one I'm going to eight to one and again we haven't overboard it significantly worry about 19th hour the size on the Pistons obviously it's got the wide angled head which we did and we actually want me got the head as a core we reworked the head quite a lot up quite a lot of flow on the head and it's got the the intake valves on this are over 2 inches as well so again quite a lot of fuel into it but talk wise the crank is the biggest help for that yeah taking it from 4.17 3 stroke which is pretty much the same as all of these old Jags 24.5 to 8 and that really helps with the talk oh very good boy it's just beautifully done thank you and I liked it is enough of the original jag so I get the feel for the original car right you know so many times I see stuff when I go so what about this with you except for the 350 Chevy and the automatic it's still a Jag you know well no not really it doesn't really work that much well this is very exciting IQ so I've got four jacks over there I'm a huge huge fan of the mark can we take this one for ride absolutely let's do it [Music] it's not - you know noise here there's no nope insulation or interior the low-drag goop that will build them we're going to do it almost the same as this except it's gonna have a four seven stroker which is about 454 pounds at all and about 390 horsepower so they're really quick Doyle on this Carl actually up run the Valvoline vr1 cuz it's gonna much a second yeah traditional in this car and the button cause if we take care of our maneuver you know it is original they can handle a ton of flour I should we did beef up the wishbones and put some some angles on the wishbone extra tall but in death itself I think I would like this as an open card yeah Oh without the roll cage you can if you can drive it as you come when the roll cage it looks a bit serving you know it's yeah some sort of testing our best that's been great yeah they really are they built properly crews yeah what probably building more of these giant your engines anyone in the world out imagining other no we we have our own in-house engine show up and everything don't just to join us but we mostly do jack you yeah yeah at any given time we've probably got a couple of dozen track your engines on the way what's your favorite than three point eight honestly with these cars it's not about ultimate power if you want to go really fast yeah there's plenty about because you get in their life it'll kill me I liken sort of mid-range power we would call this one I know a friend of mine gonna be at a bar you know like $10,000 you can bring it up to our detainee husband and I go I just buy another car first of all you know I've got a bit of Ferrari f12 in the shelf at the moment and driving that car then if you driven one of those but it is ridiculously fast yeah 700 in a really comfortable right on our front wheel that's a legit ancient v12 yeah yeah you know so there's lots of stuff that you can drive really fast and stuff like this I think it can still be quick oh yeah I can trade really you know if you're gonna get into the horsepower wars this is engine no no like I always say all the fun 7 340 in under the tent [Music] you know it's funny the EP 110 is nice but that's like the first days of new school this is like the last days of old school right and you know to be the last days of old technology beat the birthdays you can't fit up honor f1 or people honored 720 oh it's amazing and I us tell people this is my favorite ever because it's exactly the halfway point in the bubble of the ottoman about the beginning 50s where we are now khasinau you know everything mechanical nobody you know that's right I'm one of the things I've got an old vanquish s constant it still got that lovely hydraulic steering you know the new Astin's Kurtis electronics the oldest one thank dad from classic Jaguar the website that's correct cool cool well beautiful work thank you I must have been a hadn't heard of you till why I took this car showed up but I will check it out and it's just fantastic I liked it it's not a recreation I liked it's not a continuation car it's all Jaguar it's a proper 63 that's a phony about it you just did the panels and aluminum rather than steel and you save yourself about 400 pounds and boy it's just great and this is probably the most powerful 6-cylinder Jaguar engine I think I've ever driven and it feels very nice so thanks so much for coming thank you yeah hey thank you see you next week [Music]

Channel: Jay Leno's Garage

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Id: gRfT40efYJw

Length: 24min 45sec (1485 seconds)

Published: Sun Mar 03 2019