Well I had this all written up and realized all my progress pictures were on my old camera...which fell in the oil drain pan. So i got some pictures as it stands now.

I bought this car from a buddy of mine a while ago and over the last few months i've been slowly building this little guy up. I bought it as just a shell witha terrible nasty stained interior, completley stripped engine bay and brand new KYB yellows with some drop springs (can't remember brand).

The moment I got it home I tore every piece of the interior out. Used gallons of cleaners on the carpet and scrubed every inch of the rest. I even painted a few console pieces to give a slightly divided interior.Currently in trying to figure out and clean up the nasty hack job done behind the radio so i can install a 97 ls CD player I got from a buddy.

Then came the motor....Got a B18b1 block and crank and head for $50 and a few extras.
I polished the crank, stock rods with new ARP rod bolts, Turbo pistons, nippon racing head gasket and completely rebuilt the head, threw on a Skunk 2 IM and a Adjustble FPR, B&M FP gauge, Tsudo Exhaust and she's ready to be boosted. hoping for around the 280-300hp range. But It's gotta run NA for a bit cause the jaguar is getting too tired these days.

 

She's pretty dusty because it's been in the garage for months and we're redoing our basement. I was going to roll it out the other day and give it a bath buta blizzard came so nevermind on that. I bought it with the hood and trunk already primered badly so I redid it for a few bucks as a temporary solution. Already fixed the bad bondo job on the shaved trunk but i still gotta do the trunk key hole. I was going to roll it out the other day and give it a bath buta blizzard came so nevermind on that.

It's real close to running. just gotta get a header and a few minor things and we'll see how she purrs.

 

it looks like you got your work cut out for you, its a good project tho, looks like the body is pretty straight.

good luck on the build
keep the da alive

 

good luck on build!

 

needs some interior TLC also