Excellent!   There is a cardboard box on my kitchen table at the moment containing an Imp Sport head, GT distributor, and oil cooler fittings.  Excitement!  I will have to get some pictures later on.

Excellent! Frank in QLD has an Imp Sport head for me, missing a couple of springs but they would be replaced anyhow I guess. Also got the proper GT distributor and oil cooler plumbing for me too. Should have the parts in a few weeks.

No joy. I found out the other day the head on the motor in the blue car is a Mk1 head, which is not good, and a long way from the Sport head it should have. Seems the whole motor may be non original, which means the internals are all probably vanilla items too. Yet to get the cam cover off to see whats inside. The distributor is not a GT item either. At least the carbs and oil cooler are there, though I hope to replace them with better parts anyhow.

Oh well it looks like I will be rebuilding the motor anyhow.

Hope to pull it all out tomorrow. Drained the water from the radiator today, and then the oil from the sump, which came out in a nice splat all over the axle stand holding the car up, causing me to rush for the hose and Mel to come running with a box of salt. We got most of it up, but the wet floor meant an end to the days play.