BL R-series engine fitted to the Maestro with the carburettor facing the front of the car, which also led to a reputation for carburettor icing in cold weather. The endemic problem of crankshaft failure was later attributed to flexing of the crankcase – because the E series relied upon the heavy sump/transmission unit to give additional strength to the cylinder block casting, this caused problems when a plain sump was bolted in its place. The R series was superseded in 1984 by the S series. BL R-series engine The R series is a line of petrol engines introduced by British Leyland in 1983
BL Lacertae of a supermassive black hole. BL Lac objects are also categorized as a type of blazar. BL Lacertae changes in apparent magnitude over fairly small time periods between values of 14 and 17. Its location in the sky for epoch 2000.0 is at RA , DEC . BL Lacertae BL Lacertae or "BL Lac" is a highly variable, extragalactic AGN (active galactic nucleus or active galaxy). It was first discovered by Cuno Hoffmeister in 1929, but was originally thought to be an irregular variable star in the Milky Way galaxy and so was given a variable star designation. In 1968,