I purchased my Westfield Seight (Rover V8) kit back in 2016 from a chap who had it sitting under covers unbuilt for 10 yrs. Car came a with a brand new short block, so while building I added a slightly hotter cam and went for full fuel injection. When finished, it was around 205bhp at the wheels, which was pretty lively in a car weighing in at 670kgs. One issue I had early on was cooling, there are two headers in a very small engine bay, and the maximum frontal area of the radiator is limited to around 11 inches, which quite honestly is too small for a mildly tuned V8. Cooling while the car wa ..read more

Australian-owned and operated manufacturer, Davies, Craig Pty Ltd has taken the initiative to assist Hot Wheels dare devil Kent Dalton with the fitment of the innovative EWP® Header-Adaptor Kit and an EWP150 Electric Water Pump to his Ford Mustang V8 Coyote engine.  High powered demonstrations of drifting are the order of the day at the V8 Supercar Championship race meetings around the country. These high-revving, high speed demonstrations while offering fantastic entertainment generate an extraordinary amount of engine heat and the mechanical water pump is not adequate! So much so that ..read more

Summernats 36 Preview Rare Spares Pavilion ~ Stand 24 Davies Craig returns to Canberra, 4-7 January 2024 for Summernats 36. Summernats, brings together car enthusiasts from all over Australia for four days of automotive mayhem! Canberra Showgrounds will be home to the biggest and best car festival in the country, featuring a range of activities and events to suit all tastes. Summernats is undoubtedly Australia’s biggest celebration of all things horsepower and is a family favourite within the Australian street machine community. Davies Craig has attended this annual event for over twenty years ..read more

Understanding a The Tyre Pressure Monitoring System (TPMS) Tyre pressures and tyre temperatures are two crucial aspects of vehicle safety and performance, yet they are often overlooked by many drivers. A tyre with low pressure and increased temperature leads to reduced fuel efficiency, decreased handling, and an increased risk of accidents. Fortunately, modern technology has brought us the Tyre Pressure Monitoring System (TPMS) to help us stay informed about our tyre pressure and temperature levels. Davies Craig’s TyreGuard 400 TPMS is a very economical product which can prove to be an excelle ..read more

  Hand made South African 2-Stroke, 500 to take on the flats.  An Adventure of some note! Bonneville 2024. Occasionally we bump into some really interesting people. This time round, the enthusiastic gents from Alpha Performance Bike Tyres in Silverlakes gave us a call and invited us for a cup of coffee. “There’s an interesting project on the go as we speak, you’d better come and grab the story…” South Africa’s Team Matjien and engineer/pilot, 67 year old Koos Zietsman plans to break the world land speed record on a South African made 498cc 2-stroke machine at Bonneville next year. Ev ..read more

  After years promoting the virtues of motorsports, public relations guru Mike Drewer has been racing for himself across the salt bed of Lake Gairdner in South Australia. Drewer is well known among Adelaide's media and motorsport organisations for his tireless work promoting the likes of the former Clipsal 500 and the Formula One Australian Grand Prix. Since retiring, the 70-year-old has been altering a 1964 Volkswagen Beetle for himself. This includes "chopping" it back to make it more aerodynamic and installing a Subaru motor, fitted with a Davies Craig Electric Water Pump (EWP150) alon ..read more

Davies Craig is proud to announce that it has extended its sponsorship of the Monash Motorsports Formula SAE Association in 2018. The Monash Motorsports Formula SAE Association has built and campaigned both traditional internal combustion engine and electric engine cars over the last year. The internal combustion engine car is powered by a KTM motorcycle engine complete with a Davies Craig EWP80 Electric Water Pump and 9” Thermatic Fan to keep the cooling in check. Since our last update, the team took part in the 2017 Formula SAE Australasia competition, sweeping both the internal combustion a ..read more

  ICONIC AUSTRALIAN COMPANY LAUNCHES NEW GENERATION OF MARINE WATER PUMPS   Australian specialist pump designer & manufacturer, Davies, Craig has introduced its newest range of marine, DC powered, electric water pumps. Known for their high-flow circulation capability and low current draw, the Davies, Craig EWP® range is the culmination of more than 50 years of design & production expertise in the field of fluid dynamics ..read more

  I was building our Model B engine with a Vintage Riley 4-Port Head, I realized that I had a problem finding or repairing the original Riley Water Pump. I had thought that the Riley used a Model B Water Pump (I’m smarter now), and while the Riley Water Pump looks similar, it is much larger than a Model B pump. The Riley Pump core was good but finding the parts to rebuild it would be challenging if not impossible, and I would still be using an 88-year-old water pump and nearly a 100-year-old cooling technology. My next option was to use a modified mechanical water pump from another vehicl ..read more

    Jason Ferraro, founder of Renner Automotive based in a cosy warehouse conversion in an inner eastern suburb of Melbourne is now applying his 30 years of experience and skill building the iconic 356 Speedsters. Jason initially built a beautiful Ford GT40 replica and has now set about recreating 21st Century 356 Speedsters with innovative high-tech chassis, high-powered, water-cooled, fuel injected, turbocharged engines and sophisticated drivetrain systems. The first four Renner Auto 356 Speedsters have now hit the road having gone through the rigorous ADRs, approved engineering ce ..read more