that jag is hot! Chrome vette wheels look really good with it.

not to mention a LT1 props to you.

Thanks for the props, guys. It makes all the work worth it when someone says something nice about it. I think it'* fun to make a hotrod out of things that were never intended to be hotrods, like a station wagon, a hearse, an econobox, or even a Jaguar sedan. I've yet to do the hearse, though.

I have to agree here. I've dished out a lot of abuse on both, and haven't been let down. Any failure I've had have been caused by me in some form or fashion.

We looked at a Jag JUST like that here in town one day. LT1, same color, same wheels. :?

Either way, the bottom end of an LT1 is pretty much the same as any other post '87 model SBC. I've seen 100k mile plus LT1s come apart, and you could still see the factory crosshatching in the cylinders! Both the 3800 and the LT1s have small annoyances (of course the UIM/LIM issues on the 3800, and the goofy Optispark distributor on the LT1). But, if you know what to look for, and know the proper fixes, fundamentally, they're really strong.

Not discounting that possibility, but there are TONS of them that are '87 and earlier Jags with Chevrolet power. Mine is an '89, and there are just a handful of them out there with Chevrolets. There are some extra hoops to jump through on the '88 and newer style to put a SBC in it. For instance, they have to be converted from hydraulic brake booster to a regular vacuum system. The only "kit" out there for the Chevrolet swap is from www.jaguarspecialties.com. On the older, the Jags That Run book/kit has been around for 20 years, and there'* John'* cars in Dallas that has done the older ones for a long time, too.

That said, maybe the swap in the newer ones is catching on. I started mine a little over a year ago, and the kit had just come out for my style Jag, known as the XJ40 body. Myself and one other guy were doing the first two using the kit at that time.

so is that a Jaguchev or a Chevrojag? lol

Actually, it'* a Jagrolet.