On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 6:57 AM, E M <pokieba...@gmail.com> wrote: > >From what I hear, the V12 were never that much of a problem, it was all > the > bits that were hung off it that suffered due to the heat under the hood. > It > was all pack in pretty tight. > > Yeah, I don't know about the V-12 XKE, but the XJS was notorious for melting electrical bits, cracked vacuum lines, etc. etc. due to the low hood. The '70s emissions-control practice of putting cats and/or thermal reactors under the hood with the engine didn't help much.
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