ABOVE: David is seen here working on a F5000 5-litre Chevy V8, during his time at Alan Smiths Racing. RIGHT: DWR has developed a particular reputation for specialising in Coventry Climax FPF, FWA, FWB, FWE and FWMV units.
P... four in the Austin 7, Julian’ s first engine build at the age of 13 was
a 302 cubic inch Ford V8� At 18 he completed a Rolls Royce Aerospace Modern Apprenticeship and undertook a Motorsport degree course at Derby, although by this time there wasn’ t much more that he needed to learn.
Much of Julian’ s real-life experience came when restoring and providing trackside assistance for the famous‘ Tatty Turner’ Mk 1 Climax with the registration �678 ����� �his is the car which was originally raced with great success from 1�60 to 1�63 in the hands of Pat Fergusson and Warwick Banks as part of Gordon Unsworth’ s Team Turner. It has since continued with great success at many of the big historic racing events. During Julian’ s time supporting‘ Tatty’ the car placed in the top three in every event entered and never failed to complete a race.
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Having also developed a considerable skill with rebuilding gearboxes and diffs Julian has further expanded the capabilities of the company and is currently in the process of taking over the family business to continue his father’ s legacy. Clearly endowed with an astute business sense as well as his practical skills, he plans to expand the business in the near future.
The DWR workshops is well equipped, with a wide array of machinery in-house, so that they are able to carry out most mainstream engine machining services to a high standard of engineering practice. They can readily cope with all the standard procedures for cylinder head porting and gas �owing� installing, refacing and cutting replacement �al�e seats� installing and lining �al�e guides, �y�cutting of head faces and
cylinder blocks, cylinder boring, cylinder liner fitting and honing, and tappet shim grinding.
There are few machining operations that they out source, although the final engine setting-up and power testing of all DWR engines is carried out on the �uper�ow �yno at �ngine �ata Analysis in Castleford, West Yorkshire. You can find quite a few �ideos of �W� engines being dyno tested, on YouTube.
The combination of father and son’ s experience and passion for racing has seen them build a wide range of FIA specification racing engines� While they have developed a particular reputation for specialising in Coventry Climax FPF, FWA, FWB, FWE and FWMV units, they have also been involved with a much wider variety of engines including Ford pre�cross�ow, V8s( 260 upwards), cross��ow, ��A, FVA, FV� and �otus twin-cam.
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