Case Studies

Better Than New - Jaguar Mk. 5

Many modern restorers are no longer satisfied to restore classic cars ‘as new’ – they are making them far better than new incorporating modern materials, techniques and accessories to improve reliability and usability.

Vincla MotorSport in Madrid, Spain employed QuickSilver’s design team to modernise the fabrication of the manifolds and exhaust system on the enormously stylish 1940’s Jaguar Mark 5.

Vincla are restoring a small number of Jaguar Mk5s to improve on their original glory following this route. Unusually, Vincla have opted to retain the original pushrod engine but rebuilt with modern internal components and assembly methods. As part of this restoration, Vincla Motorsport came to QuickSilver to enhance the manifold and exhaust system using the technologies of the 21st century.

Specifically, the original Jaguar cast manifolds were too clumsy and restrictive in design, improvements were needed, creating tuned primaries with practical access to manifold bolts and engine sparkplugs.

QuickSilver had to think hard, a system was designed with equal length but longer primaries and a redesigned front pipe section. The remainder of the system was built to the original factory’s design.

QuickSilver produce a similar range of improved tubular manifolds for all the Jaguar XKs and 6 cylinder ‘E’ Types.