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General Maintenance: Coolant Change

The coolant in these engines should be replaced every couple of years. I use conventional green coolant which is getting harder to find. It seems in the US that there are only two manufacturers left for green coolant:  Valvoline and Peak . And from what I can tell, Peak makes the Autozone, Advance Auto and O’Reilley in-house brands.  Napa had the Valvoline coolant, but none of my local parts stores had the Peak coolant (probably because they want you to buy their in-house branded coolant).

 

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Kokopelli Beer Company Car Show

Took the Jaguar to its first Denver car show today. It was a small show in its first year hosted by the Kokopelli Beer Company. There seemed to be about 75 cars that were primarily American muscle cars with some really interesting kit cars. Proceeds went to Lifeline Puppy Rescue and there were puppy’s there for adoption….which I think was the main reason my daughter was excited to go. Also, they had beer. Tried the Pancho Villa which was really tasty. Here are some pics from the event.

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The British Mountain Goat

We have added another British vehicle to the family. Decided we needed an SUV, so started looking for something interesting and mechanically straight forward. Ended up with this Land Rover Discovery 2. Have started another blog on this truck, if you would like to see more on it. This one needs to be more practical and reliable than the Jaguar. Hope it turns out that way 🙂

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Seat rebuild and recover

The coupe has just had its biggest interior upgrade to date!

My seats have needed replacement for a while as the leather was starting to tear and much of the stitching was disintegrating. This was going to be at least a $2,000 project, so it kept going on the back burner. I started to see positive reviews for Lseat about a year ago, so I took a chance and purchased covers for the front and rear seats for a very reasonable, $600.

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I have seen the Future…and it is Now

How many times have you been working on your car, needed to replace a part, gone to your favorite parts vendor web site to find the dreaded words “no longer available“? Next you’re on EBay crossing your fingers and hoping to find a used part somewhere. What if you could build your own replacement part by printing it out….well, you can today…sort of.

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Quick update

Winter has hit Calgary and all fun cars are in hibernation until probably May  🙁  I have updated the last post on improving the vapor lock issues with my observations after running the car all summer with the upgrades.  Go to the very bottom of that post for the updates.  This winter will be slow for new project postings as we are moving to Denver and I don’t have any projects planned.  I will keep posting coupes that come up for sale and plan to document previous upgrades and repairs as well as review a collection of new repair, maintenance and general interest documentation I have received for the coupe.  Also…if you see something on my car that you have questions about, let me know I will post on that as well.  Stay warm…….

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