{"id":755,"date":"2014-05-26T20:10:10","date_gmt":"2014-05-26T19:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xk140.nl\/wordpress\/?p=755"},"modified":"2014-12-20T16:13:21","modified_gmt":"2014-12-20T15:13:21","slug":"engine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xk140.nl\/wordpress\/?p=755","title":{"rendered":"Engine overview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\">When I purchased the car, it was possible to buy a second spare engine.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #333333;\">The engine which belongs to the car consists of\u00a0a XK120 block and XK140 head.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #333333;\">The spare engine consists of \u00a0a XK140 block and XK120 head.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\">To be able to build a complete XK140 engine I\u00a0decided to buy the extra engine for Euro 750.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/xk140.nl\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/EnginesBuy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-760\" src=\"http:\/\/xk140.nl\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/EnginesBuy-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"EnginesBuy\" width=\"485\" height=\"363\" srcset=\"https:\/\/xk140.nl\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/EnginesBuy-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/xk140.nl\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/EnginesBuy-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/xk140.nl\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/EnginesBuy.jpg 1136w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 485px) 100vw, 485px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Engine 1:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Head G8877-7<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Block W1800-8<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Engine 2:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Head W7707-8<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Block G9274-8S<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Now after almost 5 year I started to disassemble both engines and found, due to 46 year of stagnation, \u00a0the following issues:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Sparkplug snapped of<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Thread for sparkplug gone<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Combustion-chambers damaged due to corrosion<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Cylinder wear\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Pistons stuck in cilinder<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Inlet and exhaust valves\/seats damaged due to corrosion<\/li>\n<li>Wrong type of camshafts mounted in the XK140 head (C13080 and C2444, required c5717 and c5718)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Hopefully it will be possible to combine the good parts from both engines and try to find the missing parts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I purchased the car, it was possible to buy a second spare engine. The engine which belongs to the car consists of\u00a0a XK120 block and XK140 head. The spare engine consists of \u00a0a XK140 block and XK120 head. To be able to build a complete XK140 engine I\u00a0decided to buy the extra engine for <a href='https:\/\/xk140.nl\/wordpress\/?p=755' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engine","category-37-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xk140.nl\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xk140.nl\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xk140.nl\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xk140.nl\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xk140.nl\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=755"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/xk140.nl\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":871,"href":"https:\/\/xk140.nl\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755\/revisions\/871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xk140.nl\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xk140.nl\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xk140.nl\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}