Maximum size of a fuel tank for safety reasons?
Bingo - single tanks in passenger cars are limited to 19-20 US gallons by regulations and laws. Jaguar turned necessity into a virtue and made a car that had a longer unrefuelled range than anything else in the class at the time.
This is an important selling point over here in the land of the endless highway.
a tube connection both tanks so they stay at the same level all time...and who would've tought the connecting line can hold an addition 10l?
just a wild guess...
A good attempt, but DanRoM got it. The tanks aren't equallized, but compartmentalized like an aircraft or motorcycle. You select which tank to feed off of in the cockpit.
That's from 27 gallons, or 97ish litres, right?
Because my car with its puny 50l tank managed 953 kms with about 3,5 l left (+- 1 gallon)
I'm double as fuel efficient as you, so therefore only need 1 fuel tank :lol:
Yeah, but your car is about 20 years newer than my car and 40-odd years newer than the design! It also incorporates an overdrive into the transmission, so you have that advantage. And it's only 91 litres.
My converted Series III currently gets about 28mpg highway with the overdrive transmission in it (it should get better when the MegaSquirt goes in as it's running rich), which gives it a range of 711 miles or 1137km.
And I can do that with four people and their luggage - all transported in comfort.
I love those "Fuck You Hippies" pics.
I think you maybe over hyping the E-Type a bit there, it was never at the same level as the Cobras and Ferrari GTOs in GT racing. Even the E-Type lightweights couldn't keep up with them.
True, but those running Jaguars didn't have factory support in the GT classes, which makes a lot of difference. Down in the lower 'amateur' classes, the E-Type owned SCCA races and the like for more than a decade, as well as many road rallies, etc. Group 44, for example, racked up an awful lot of victories with their E-Type.
The other thing was that the Cobras weren't exactly cheap, and Ferrari's GTO was hideously expensive, so you would see a lot more XKE's than Cobras.