So a friend a few months ago brought up the idea of using a V6 AJ30 out of a Lincoln LS or a Jag. About a month ago I found a 2000 Jaguar S-type in the junkyard with 100,800 miles. After removing the valve cover, there must have been a old lady driving this one due to the amount of dried sludge in the engine. So far I'm starting to break down the engine for a short block factory rebuild. The upper end will have race heads and cams from Cat Cams. The factory weight is same if not lighter than the factory engine.






More to come in a bit....

 

what's the draw to this engine? anything particularly better than...say the K sway that's been posted about recently?

 

I've seen 418 hp and 269 ft-lbs NA with a 9K Rev limit. This engine is used in dozens of different RC's.

 

AJ30 V6 dune buggy

Noble M400 1050hp the engine comes out of a Mazda6

Here is the audio of a 350-380hp Naturally Aspirated version in a Juno SS

 

whats the plan for the rest of the drivetrain?

 

Stock 5-speed and 1.6L open rear end (need to stay STS legal).

 

I will be running a 1.8 diff and a T5 trans

So Far the Pro's
Light weight
Engine is designed by Porsche
Short Block internals done by Cosworth
The engine comes in Mazda6, Lincoln LS, Jag X and S-type and numerous other cars.

Negative's
Front sump
Tall intake Manifold
Lack of after market
Factory manual trans is weak
Ford design heads, do not flow

 

Does/Didn't Noble use those in their cars? 400-600 HP with really nice manners from twin setups. Kinda cool. Does the T5 bolt right up with a stock and/or common bellhousing?

 

Yes the Noble M400 uses a twin setup on low boost it make 441 hp. The bellhousing is expensive if you don't want to go with a adapter plate. Here is the link Bellhousing (DU6T5)

 

Here are some current pics

 

Wow. I see a lot of work in that Head...

 

I'm vomiting and I can't stop.

Please send help.

 

The double post (deleted) made it even worse...

 

Nice to see they were on top of oil changes.

 

ewwwwwwwwwwwwww

 

 

those look like variable valve timing intake cams.
in which case good luck cleaning out the mechanisms and oil control valves
this engine is screaming for like a week in the hot tank lol

 

Throw that one back and try again.

THis is the 3.0 liter version of the 2.5 v6 from the mazda6 (which shares no relation to the KLDE) right? A local built up the 3.0 liter version with a bunch of nobel parts and made some decent N/A power on an engine built for boost through some cracked up shitty ebay headers. I kind of cant wait till he gets money again because IIRC theres a PTE 6262 sitting at his house waiting on hotside parts to go in.

 

Take it back to the yard, that thing is junk

 

Lulz, you couldn't pay me to run that engine. Try again.