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XN923
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Obviously.

Can’t you put a different engine in? Wasn’t the Tempest designed for this in the first place?

Tempest MkI – Sabre IV, wing radiators
Tempest Mk II – Centaurus
Tempest Mk III – Griffon, later Sabre VIII, later Fury prototype
Tempest MkIV – Griffon, not built
Tempest Mk V – Sabre II, chin radiator (some tested with annular radiators)
Tempest Mk VI – Sabre V, chin and wing radiator

Have I missed any?

They all looked rather different up front though and only the MkII of the non-Sabre variants would be representative of operational versions