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6 Apr 2006, 18:47 (Ref:1572494) | #1 | ||
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hi everyone biulding TWR 1/24 kit got confused on couple parts.did the full size vechile have some form of water pipeing to rear brakes. in kit peice for pipeing the appears to olnl go from underbody to rear brakes but seems "over scale size" for brake line
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Probably Air ducting to cool the brakes not water, as far as I know the only race vehicles to experiment with water cooling is trucks and rear brakes don't get over hot anyhow compared to fronts, only a guess mind:-).
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Did you mean 'two jags' lot's of hot air there.
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cheers guys for that given me something to go on.
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Which year are you building? I have tonnes of pictures, but mainly 1982.
The later ones had some 'oil cooling' at the very rear which it is suggested acted as an aerodynamic aid. A scandalous suggestion! |
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83 and the first two races of 84. BMW went ape about this arrangement. |
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Was that the odd looking box thing beneath the rear bumper?
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To build it properly you'll have to chop it down the centreline and take an inch out of it before putting it back together again.
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Are you saying Jaguar removed two feet then?
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I must admit I don't know the details. The body shells were special IIRC, but they were just lighter and went down the production line as normal. However I am sketchy on what was actually done. There was a question over the cooler at the rear and also the wheel arches, but both were OK homologation wise.
However I am sketchy on the details as most of this concerns the later cars and I am a bit more up on the '82 cars at the moment. |
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cheers guys(again) begining to think brke ducts as silimat tube behind front dumber but as not got shell painted nut sure where fit.
box gives datails about 83/84 ETTC so good bet it 83/84 car have got people looking out for full size racers and will "cwral" if need be |
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This is an old chestnut and was related to the Rovers not the Jags. Actually it got disproved in (I think) Brno where one of the cars had an off and needed a new windscreen. They got a standard Rover one from a dealership and it fitted perfectly.
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At Nurburgring ETC in 85 the Rovers had to take off their plastic boot lid spoilers and replace them with the black rubber ones from the road cars, after Volvo protested (ah, yes the 240 Turbo. Where did all the road cars go...) |
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Indeed, my old man once enquired with a Volvo dealer in the UK about organising a test drive in a 240T and got the following response: 'A what?' |
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I guess everyone interested in this thread/these cars has seen that excellent clip from the Fuji Inter-Tec race in 1986 on You Tube?
There's a link in the Rover thread but just in case!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2FIbco7FMA |
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Appears to be an original car on ebay, but why stick an even more massive engine in it????
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/JAGUAR-GENUINE...item27b742952e |
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As I remember, it also said that the valances under the front bumper of the TWR cars, were apparently hand-made and not quite the same shape as the ones that came out of the Jaguar factory... There might have been a mention of modifications to the rear inner wheelarches (homologated on the strength of changes allegedly made to production shells to suit road conditions in either African or South American export markets....), although I could be getting mixed up with the Rovers here. Pretty sure that any suggestion of cars being smaller than they should have been was dismissed pretty strongly by the article though. |
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I suspect you are thinking of the 83/84 cars. The 85 on cars did not have the rear oil cooler. They did have diff coolers but under the bodywork. |
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Hi. Is it the Hasegawa 1/24th kit? And are the ducts orange? if so they are definately air for the rear brakes, which were inboard by the diff and needed lots of it! The matching pipe at the front is also air ducting, but by 84 (the year of the model) the front brakes were also water cooled. The Large container in the models front passenger foot well is the resevoir for the water cooling. They used a lot of that as well!!! I'm a huge fan of the TWR XJS's. i followed them everywhere and have lots of info on them.
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Slightly off-topic, but would anyone know the reasons why there were no privateer Group A XJS's in the BTCC and ETCC in the mid-1980's? Was it:
1. TWR did not want privateers to have access to parts, information and support? 2. If TWR did allow privateers access, the costs and complexity of the XJS made it not a feasible option for a privateer team to run? |
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Well the Group A Rovers were built by privateers so I don't think TWR had any need to restrict parts etc. I suspect the real reasons were; a) there was only a short homologation period for the cars; b) BL was reluctant to release too many chassis from a premium range; and, c) they were seriously expensive to build.
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