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Motorsport has proven to be a fantastic proving ground for mechanical components in cars. Not unexpectedly it puts a lot of stress and pressure on areas such as the transmission, the driveline that puts power down to the ground via the wheels. But what about cooling?

Performance cars, normal cars, cars towing caravans, and hot rods all have one thing in common. Well, two, actually. One is that they’re designed to produce and deal with some impressive numbers in speed, horsepower, and fuel consumption. The second is that they all need some serious cooling.

Davies Craig’s has a very strong after-sales service and customer focus that extends world-wide. This Australian auto cooling products manufacturer specializes in ensuring that their product range integrates so well that most DYI end-users can install their products.

Once again Davies Craig Pty Ltd exhibited at one of the largest and most prestigious car shows held in Australia; Meguiar’s MotorEx. This event really is one of its kind, where participants showcase the nations best custom vehicles to a very large audience spanning across more than 40,000 square metres.

The team recently sifted through the digital world to find the best pieces of video content that our customers have uploaded showcasing Davies Craig engine cooling products.

Davies Craig Electric Water Pumps, Thermatic Fans, Fan Digital Switches, the patented EWP/Fan Digital Controller and associated equipment are like any other part of a car in one critical area. Maintenance.

At one point, somewhere, in our driving lives, we’ll have had to tow something. It might be a small trailer with a fridge strapped in, perhaps a slightly bigger one with a car, or the four wheel drive with a caravan. Towing is an added strain on a car’s mechanicals as it is. But the cooling?

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.