The British Muscle Car
I have the TPS apart as I am looking for the most elegant way to mount a modern 0-5V TPS. This is so that I can set up an Innovate system to monitor dual AFR, RPM, MAP, altitude and throttle position. I’ll cover that later, but for now I thought it was interesting to see how the TPS works.
It looks like I used the wrong size hose when installing the new fuel rail in 2017 https://xj12c.org/2017/09/20/new-fuel-rail-installation/ . There was some major leaking and in this video I show my attempt to correct with the correct size fuel hose.
Here is an old video showing the Broadspeed XJ12C vs BMW at the 1977 ETCC
Happy Thanksgiving all!! It’s been a long time since my last post. We have moved to Salt Lake City and until the new garage is built, the coupe is in storage. It’s been running great, but I haven’t taken it out much. I saw this pop up on EBay for $46,500 and thought it would be a good one to capture here.
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This car is a blast to drive, but its time to make space in the garage for different toys and projects. I always considered this the last analog sportscar from BMW as its the last non-turbo, manual transmission high performance car they made. Here are the listings on Autotrader and Facebook if you are interested.
Here is a ’76 coupe for sale in Kansas for $14,995 that might be great, but there is an unknown amount of body work required.
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I can’t believe I have never seen these before. Thank you Wayne for sending them to me. Here are three videos of different XJC Musters in Australia. I doubt there is anywhere else in the world that has so many XJC’s gather in one place. The main picture above is of Wayne’s beast of an XJ12C, and at the bottom is a video of it on the dyno…..enjoy…….
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It’s been a while since I have posted and I will explain why further down in the post. After replacing the manifold pressure sensor, the car has been running beautifully and I used it for most of my errands around town this summer. There was one minor hiccup though……..
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