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It is with great pleasure that we announce the relaunch of our EBP®25 Electric Booster Pump! The EBP15, EBP23 and EBP40 have all drawn high recognition around the world– and the newly updated EBP 25 will now complement this versatile range.

A car’s cooling system is designed to be as flexible as possible and deal with as many varying driving conditions as possible. That includes highway driving, lapping carparks looking for that last remaining car park, and being in a traffic jam at 6:45am. On a stinking hot summer’s morning.

It’s far from standard, but achieving 238kph (148mph) in a VW Beetle is no mean feat and owner Mike Drewer from Adelaide in Australia believes it can go even faster.

With a tremendous social media following and impressive readership across the US, Classic Trucks Magazine have established themselves as one of the biggest publications within the automotive industry.

Fans attached to engines soon assisted in that but a clear need to improve upon that was recognized. It’s 1971 and a pair of Aussie engineers, Daryl Davies and Bill Craig, put their heads together and gave the world the electrically powered thermatic fan.

The summer nightmare, a loaded car, Mum, Dad, three kids, the pets and luggage, top up the fuel tank, and hit the road. Half way to your holiday destination, coolant temperature gauge hits the red line! Pull over, bonnet up and steam pouring from the radiator and coolant floods onto the ground!

At Davies Craig we continue to push the boundaries when it comes to offering premium and economical products, and our new product is proof. The new 52mm round gauge fan and EWP Switch has been developed to complement what our innovative Digital Thermatic Fan Switch value-pack (#0444) offers, with different features and a facelift uniquely designed by the team here at Davies Craig.

Davies Craig is trusted by high-level engine builders and racers the world over, as they search for a competitive advantage over the competition. In this blog we’ll list just some of the racers and unique builds that have chosen Davies Craig for their automotive cooling needs!

We have all been there… looking forward to summer holidays heading to the surf, sand or the bush with the van and car loaded, all hooked up and so too are thousands of other sun seekers with the same idea.

When California based Josh Backes was looking for a way to keep the running temperatures of his Chevelle in check, he stumbled across the Davies Craig brand and our range of Electric Water Pumps. Read on below to find out about his EWP150 & Thermatic Electric Fan installation and some of the benefits he's experienced!

Idaho based land speed racers Greenspeed Research took on the iconic Bonneville Speedweek once again in 2018. Armed with two Davies Craig EWP150’s, the renewable energy powered racer was able to complete a number of trouble-free runs at around the 150-170 mph mark.

Did you know that the Australian owned automotive cooling specialists, Davies Craig has a solid network of distributors around the globe?

Mechanical Water Pumps are one of very few remaining car parts that have remained unchanged for the best part of the last century. While every aspect of increasing the power to an engine has been explored to the nth degree, the same can not be said when it comes to automotive cooling.

Davies Craig manufactures a wide range of automotive cooling products with its award winning Electric Water Pumps and Thermatic Fans often receiving the plaudits from industry professionals and car enthusiasts. But what about our range of smaller capacity Electric Booster Pumps (EBP)? Where do they fit into the Davies Craig product range and what applications are they best suited to?

The Hot Rod Power Tour is a big automotive event in the United States. This weekend, starting June 9 and going through to June 15, is the 24th running of the HRPT.

Driving a car, a truck, a bus, etc relies on a combination of metal and electrical components to work together in harmony. Pretty much since the internal combustion engine was invented, there’s been a need to hang components off the side.

The annual British Speed Week held in November each year once had a story about a car powered by an engine sourced from a WW2 fighter plane. It was a spectacle to behold with flames, sparks, and smoke being emitted as it was piloted around the show’s test track.

Australian based Davies Craig can supply a range of electric Thermatic fans and electric water pumps for vehicle cooling systems, plus the associated digital controllers and switches that are compatible with existing vehicle components.

Davies Craig is proud to continue its support of the Oxford University Motorsport foundation in 2018.

Davies Craig recently made the trip stateside for one of the biggest automotive trade shows in the world

Being the biggest automotive aftermarket show in the world, Davies Craig couldn’t wait to head to Las Vegas to not only showcase our own products, but also get an inside look at the latest and greatest products in the industry. Davies, Craig was incredibly honoured and excited to receive the SEMA Global Media Award at this year’s event for our innovative LCD EWP/Fan Digital Controller.

This ‘Sheepey Built’ Twin Turbo Lamborghini Huracan was recently unveiled at SEMA, receiving a ton of attention from attendees. With two huge turbos and some incredible fabrication work the Huracan pumps out an impressive horsepower figure north of the 1000 mark.

Davies Craig will once again be stateside for PRI in Indianapolis, Indiana on December 7-9.

Team Greenspeed have set a new record in the CDT class at Bonneville Speedweek with a two-run average speed of 219.411mph.