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This is what to do with your old fan

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Don’t add a second hand, that may be too much for the fan and it will crack up.

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What model of our favorite brand had that part?

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XJ40, XJS …usually on the verge of cracking, just had to add some verbiage to get around the sites requirements for words.

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That is very cool !!

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Yes, especially as that then would be the third hand :rofl:

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Xjs see my post on change of fan

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Scrimbo,
I can see that your ideas are environmentally friendly.
Now we’re waiting for paperweight made out of v12 block…

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Ash tray out of piston…

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I saw once where someone made coffee table out of engine block

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Sacrilege Jim & the asking price for these coffee table engine blocks in the U.K. is upwards of $1,000

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I suppose if you were to pay $2000.00 you could get an old slightly used XJ-S , then you could yard out the V-12 yourself, clean up the block and add a 1/4” plate glass top for a coffee table.
Maybe the beauty would be lump the car out or sell it as a parts car!

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I was once reading up on some very early engines and learned that the only evidence that one particular engine ever existed was that one was made into a coffee table.

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I agree Andy.
Another sacrilege was someone once took the back-end of an XJS and converted the boot into a BBQ grill. Have seen pix of the same approach with other cars as well.

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Scrimbonator, I think you need to start a website or Ebay store selling such unique, Jag-related gifts . :wink:

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I am curious about something - did Jaguar eventually throw in the towel themselves re: the yellow fans and switch (i.e. “upgrade”) to the black version on their own at some point during production of the XJS model? :confused: I ask b/c the other day I noticed Superblue does have a black fan … :open_mouth: don’t know why I never noticed that until recently …

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I think they did. The black fan that we put into our older XJS’s is i think the same one used on newer XJS’s like your superblue.

Probably Ford - “Why are you still using plastic from the 1950’s?!”

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I wonder does the black fan move more air since the configuration is slightly different

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Hmmmm, I never noticed that before. In what way? They do have the same # of blades (11, IIRC) … Is one more “angled” than with the other fan? :confused:

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They are spaced apart of differently