We bought a rare straight-six engine for £1!
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Published 2024-04-03
Mike Fernie has found an incredibly rare six-cylinder engine in a scrapyard, and he's going to save it! Being just a lump of scrap, he paid £1! How bad will the abandoned engine be?!
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00:00 Finding our £1 engine
01:04 Extracting the abandoned engine
01:36 Initial engine inspection
04:36 Trying to turn over the engine
05:49 Stripping the engine down
08:28 The cylinder head comes off
10:01 A perfect AJ16 engine
10:57 Finally hitting top dead centre
14:03 The sump comes off
16:24 How bad are the internals?
19:11 Is the crankshaft okay?
20:14 Cleaning up the bl
All Comments (21)
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Tom is a brilliant guy. I love how he gives his time to automotive channels. If that engine can't be saved, at least turn it into a coffee table & give it to Tom as a present for his office.
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Tom is an absolute gems, no matter which channel he's showing up on. True character.
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as long as the block isnt cracked, it can and should be rescued..
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15:54 "A well worn engine that had just been sat outside" BMW F1 engine engineers in the mid 80's : HEAVY BREATHING
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2:03 that "1 POUND! 1 POUND" Audio brought back so many memories. 🥺❤
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Rebuild it!)) We need more content to watch!))
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It’s a Jaaaaag — of course you should save it. Perhaps it won’t happen, but I always wondered how an XK would perform with a AJ16 — manual conversion, XK chassis and body, adding in the S/C AJ16? Excellent fun. I mean, if you could FIT them, that would be nearly the perfect recipe for an F-Type too. The perfect version would be an Ingenium straight six, but an AJ16 would be fascinating in there too.
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Haha, Tom Lenthal is superb "Yeah, yeah - I think she'll fire straight up."
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10:37 Put it in an MX5? Isn’t that your normal first reaction? 😂
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... a suggested plan... buy another 4 /5 "1" Pound engines , ripp the parts off and build a Frankenstein with one initial purpose... to determine how much would last and what effort would be needed to wreck it...and then rebuild it with proper/ forget parts and give a rewarding performance life.... would be a nice odyssey for us to watch and a massive amount of work for you
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love watching this guy take apart engines. more please
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Go full tilt and lighten the crank fly wheel rack cams the works, sleeve the block if you can. Same the hardship of boring it out past the corrosion ❤
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Rebuild it. Love the Tom Lenthall content!
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During my attendance at a Tennessee, USA state public school, my auto mechanics teacher told us about so many dangerous tricks that I now see in this video. If he had not mentioned kicking, adding another wrench, or a pipe on a ratchet, I may have never learned these clever tricks. Thanks Mr. Jackson
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Absolute beast of an engine, mine still makes me smile every single time I floor it. Rebuild it. Plus I'm sure Tom said he had some new cylinder heads for those lying around. Parts supply is good, standalone ECU options are available too so you could put it in anything big enough. They are a proper torque monster.
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I think a MK 3 Ford Capri would suit that engine perfectly. It will have the amazing sound with the stunning looks.
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Put on a bigger super charger, make it a real hotrod engine!
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Back in the early eighties when i was a teenager my dad had a 1951 Bristol 401 it had a 2ltr straight six with triple carbs i can still hear the induction sound of that engine it was AWESOME
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Save it! I'm so looking forward to following this build. I bought a 1995 Jaguar XJR 17 years ago which I still own and drive to this day. It it has this exact engine in it. I've always wondered what kind of potential the engine has but nobody really does much with them.
