Bill Hirsch has new ones, reasonably priced. I have a set of their hubcaps on my car, beautiful.

Update. After I replaced the oil cooler, everything seemed fine, until the replacement oil cooler failed, this allowed most of the coolant to enter the engine crankcase.this happened overnight, not during operating the engine. I had the original oil cooler repaired, pressure tested, and changed my engine rebuilders recommended oil from Fischer Classic Car Motor oil SAE 20/50, to Valvoline VR1 SAE 30, I also reduced the oil pressure a bit. I have taken the car out 3 times now, and everything seems to be in good working order. I will say that the second time around, even having to make my own gaskets, as ordering new ones was not on my time table, I able to make the repairs in 5 hours less. Practice.

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Took the car out for 1.5 hour drive on Sunday, the water temp was 10 degrees higher then normal, I suspected it was time to flush the cooling system. When I got home the radiator puked out quite a bit of oily sludge. I suspected the oil cooler was leaking as it was repaired 5 years ago when the engine was rebuilt. ,After disassembly I was able to confirm the oil cooler was leaking, and I estimate it put a quart of oil into the cooling system. I have a replacement cooler, tested and not leaking. I ordered the required gaskets from Olson's today. For a final FU to me the car had a flat left front tire when I went into the garage to tear it down. I hope to have it back up and running before the weekend.

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David, Good point, I will check that out.
Andy

Back on the road. Went with a stainless plug.

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After 2 months of wanting to torque the head on my 1201, (seemed like everyday another project has come up) I tore it down today to torque the head. I discovered the freeze plug at the right front of the engine was leaking. I have ordered new parts and should have them in a week. Its always something. The plugs were replaced over 5 years ago when the engine was rebuilt.

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The hood is also a twelve hood.

i just had my Jaguar XK140 out for a long drive on Monday, started sputtering when I exited the freeway, immediately got back on, drove 35 miles home 75mph, exited freeway and dead, no spark to plugs, 1 mile from home. I checked Fuel, Coil, wires, cap, it was the rotor, the f-in rotor. I put in the old used rotor and fixed. I hope you have fixed your problem.

David, Ernie Foster never made a 320 Eight head, He did make the Super Eight heads.

I couldn't help it. I ground all the casting marks off, and the head smooth with my angle grinder and 3" discs, light primer, sanded and painted. I will say since color sanding and polishing I have only used detail spray, no wax. The photo of the engine assembled is after 3000 miles of use. I think it is holding up very well. I replaced the junk aluminum head with the replacement cast iron head, I had to make it match the rest of the engine. Photo of the stamped and casting number too.

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