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Jaguar XK140 8 Blade Water Pump Upgrade

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I don't have direct experience with that upgrade, but given the propensity of the XK engine to run hot, I would think that anything you can do to increase the efficiency of the cooling system would be a good thing. My EType came originally with a regular steel radiator and, if you can believe it, a single blade radiator fan. A common upgrade for these cars is to replace the radiator with an aluminum alloy radiator and replace the anemic fan with a much more robust multi-blade electric fan:

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