BELOW: Among the customers of Grace Engine Developments are many accomplished racers who’ ve achieved their success with engines built and maintained by James and Sam.
ABOVE: Comprehensive equipment includes MIRA Centronic valve seat cutter and Superflow SF-260 flow bench.
P... busy engine building operation, from the Prince crankshaft grinder
and SPS Van Norman boring bars, Delapena‘ nodding donkey’ honing tool, MIRA Centronic valve seat cutter, Sunnen conrod heater, Sunnen pin press, Comec swing head surfacer, Carmec guide and seat press, Sunnen con-rod hone, Prince cap grinder, Kwik Way and Comec valve refacer, Quelo pneumatic head assembly bench, Diamond valve guide hone and Bridgeport mill as well as the usual array of lathes, presses and drills.
Out back is another store room, with cleaning facilities, Walter Trowal Superfinisher, Delta pressure tester, Delta shim grinder and further assembly areas, with offshoots that house the dynamic crankshaft balancer, conrod balancer and a Superflow SF- 260 flow bench, as well as additional Snap-On tool storage a stock room for consumables and a separate room for the messy work, grinding, shot blasting and his gas-flowing / porting bench.
The father and son team are clearly kept very busy with an ongoing stream of engine builds and upgrades, and judging from the glowing testimonials, not just on their own Facebook page but also in numerous references on
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enthusiast forums, they are clearly doing all the right things and keeping a lot of customers very happy.
Among the clientele are many accomplished racers who’ ve achieved their success with engines built and maintained by James and Sam, including Neil Argrave’ s number 53 Mk 2 Escort which came first in Class D of the Classic Touring Car Racing Club( CTCRC) Blue Oval Saloon series last year. Steve Dance’ s red and white Capri RS2600 was a winner at the Classic Le Mans and also won the Peter Auto Championship in 2018, Paul Tompkins was World Final National Banger champion in 2009, Nick Mizen’ s black and orange Fiesta 1.4 won the 2019 Castle Combe championship, Dean Tompkins was Pro 2 Pickup truck racing champion in 2017 and 2018 and Lewis Wall drove Dave Boucher’ s car to finish second in the 750 Motor Club Locost championship.
As always in business, it’ s the satisfied customers who are the best salesmen, giving independent recommendations to other enthusiasts as well as returning for additional work themselves, and nothing achieves greater satisfaction than winning races. Z
GRACE ENGINE DEVELOPMENTS 18b Hambridge Road. Newbury Berkshire RG14 5XA
Tel: 07779 223 001 Grace Engine Developments grace _ engine _ developments _ www. pickuptruckracing. com