[sammyg2]

My worst experience with a british car didn't actually have anything to do with lucas.
A buddy in high school was given the keys to his dad's 12 cylinder E type if we could get it running right.

This was an early 'vert with those POS side draft carbs. strombergs I think.

I spent most of a week getting the carbs to work correctly and get them sync-ed. Had to replace one diaphram and play with the dashpots IIRC but the biggest problem was the linkage.
Man that thing ran like as raped ape when it was dialed in, faster than snot and SMOOTH!
For about an hour.

Back in the garage, they cabs were no longer in sync.
Fooled around for another hour and got em running right,
after that it because a weekend ritual.

I wanted to blame the lucas ignition but eventually I replaced or jury rigged much of the linkage and the problem pretty much went away. Note this car had less than 30k on the odo and his father had problems with it almost from the start and had pretty much given up on it.

I got to the point where I hated that car. It was awesome when it ran right but we couldn't even trust it to drive to the beach. What good is a convertible jag in So Cal if you can't drive it to the beach where the bunnies are?

If I had to do it again it probably wouldn't be near as difficult but I was 18 and figuring it out as I went.