Pictures of a V12 bare block

Sorry it's so dusty. Just hauled it out

Engine stand for both cast Iron 6 and All aluminum V12 

Not small. 

Impressive

Building a new toy?

Anyone wanna buy a whole Jag v12 engine from me? 

In reply to yupididit :

Regrettably no. I'm down to 4 complete and several in parts from the 50 I once had.  One will go into my MGuar  and another into the XJS race car. With spares for each.
  I dug up my journal of original prices paid and selling price. It works out to be an average of $128 each. Obviously many were free, ( ignoring the work required to remove them ) the most I ever paid for one was $500 for the first one. That would have been late 1970's  but by the 1990's they were all free and I refused to take the later HE's. 
In spite of that 2 of the remaining 4 are HE's. Because of the ease of adapting manual transmissions to the HE block I'm given to put the internals ( and heads ) of the earlier flatheads into the HE blocks.
 To reduce costs at the factory engines were built in batches. Often I need to slide the Iron cylinder linings out to reuse the pistons.  But I've never found enough wear on a set of pistons to require replacement.  ( the advantage of very short stroke combined with a long connecting rod ) 

What a cute little V12

Mr_Asa said:

Building a new toy?

Yes, getting started. The MGuar comes first.
   Building a chassis table next rather than laying it out on the floor.  I'm sure my back and knees won't allow me to do all the work required.  I can sit in my chair and scoot from weld area to weld area.  That's the trick to welding up a straight chassis.  Weld a little and then go work on the opposite corner briefly. 
my first chassis I started at the front end and welded to  the back. Turned it into a banana that, no you cannot straighten out. 

In reply to ShawnG :

Very interesting? Iron block?  Is it a Lincoln?  

Letting it be known that I'm not selling the engine for $128 lmao! 

frenchyd said:

Mr_Asa said:

Building a new toy?

Yes, getting started. The MGuar comes first.
   Building a chassis table next rather than laying it out on the floor.  I'm sure my back and knees won't allow me to do all the work required.  I can sit in my chair and scoot from weld area to weld area.  That's the trick to welding up a straight chassis.  Weld a little and then go work on the opposite corner briefly. 
my first chassis I started at the front end and welded to  the back. Turned it into a banana that, no you cannot straighten out. 

Pics? 

In reply to frenchyd :

Packard V12.

Iron block, aluminum heads in the later years.

In reply to ShawnG :

Clean it to Shine and generally be a handsome c:

In reply to ShawnG :

Nice. That would be fun at someplace like the race of Gentlemen.  Would they allow Packard engine cars?  

David S. Wallens said:

Not small. 

326 cu inches. Or 5.3 liters.  Sir Lyons original idea was to take it out to 8 liters. But the gas shortage killed those plans. It's still possible to get it over 7 liters using the stock crank and original iron liners.