Got it back all fixed! £800. Not too bad!
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It puts into perspective the potential costs involved in running a maserati for anyone looking in from the outside
I bought a 1997 Jaguar XK with a blown gearbox which turned into a blown engine as well
I sourced an engine and block out of an XJ but the only thing the same were the heads and block
My mechanic removed the engine and box, and stripped both down and swapped all the XK parts onto the XJ block, cams, sump,inlet manifolds , exhaust manifolds, changed the chains and tensioner, fitted it all and it fired first time but ran like a pig
This was because we didn't realise the starter ring gear which controlled the timing was different so the gearbox had to come back out .
Once it was swapped it ran like a Swiss watch for the 3 years I owned it until an abs fault killed it
For all that he charged me £1000