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Chris Hamilton is the restoration manager at The Healey Factory in Melbourne. These pert British open top cars have a strong following and embody the best of small car design from their era. Chris shows off one excellent example of these machines, complete with an alloy blocked engine that’s been increased in capacity to 4.4L from the original 2.9L.

The Geelong Revival is a huge motoring event that brings car watchers and car lovers alike to the city of Geelong once a year. But it’s not just a motorshow, it’s a chance for companies and car enthusiasts to share their stories.

Australian Jake “Driftsquid” Jones is one of those and showcases his immense talent regularly around the country. Jones recognises the strain that the engine and cooling system is put under during a full power drift session and he’s called upon Davies Craig to be the main cooling suppliers for his RB26 powered RBM3.

Every year, the City of Geelong comes alive for the annual Geelong Revival Motoring Festival. The famous bayfront precinct turns into a showcase of cars, motorcycles, automotive history, and vendors for a weekend.

Davies Craig has specifically developed an Electric Water Pump, or EWP®, for the BBC engines. The standard water pump on BBC engine is a belt driven unit, and the pump is located at the front centre of the block.

The history of the Small Block Ford (SBF) goes back nearly six decades, with its origins in 1961, with one of the original displacements being a six-cylinder sized 221ci, or 3.6L.

What Is a Mini Cooper? Travel back to the early 1960s and the Mini has quickly become a cult car. Designed by Sir Alex Issigonis, it became famous for its ‘bigger on the inside than it looks’ space, its funky good looks, and in Cooper Works specification, a lot of muscle for a small four cylinder engine car.

Chevrolet has a long and solid history of developing V8 engines. They come in what are known as small and big block, which refers to their capacities. The LS name goes back to 1995, when Chevrolet re-engineered their long running small blocks.

Factory equipment in BMWs is generally of a very high standard. In fact, a high proportion of BMW engines utilise a bespoke electric water pump. There are some recorded instances however, of OEM fitment equipment failing due to the internal materials collapsing.

Moving air across the vanes of a radiator, or heat exchanger, is crucial to keeping an engine as cool as possible. Vehicles come off the production line fitted with a belt driven fan, the belt being attached to pulleys which are attached to the engine.

One of the most popular engine transplants between brands is that of the Small Block Chev or SBC into cars such as a Jaguar XJ6.

The Davies Craig Electric Water Pump is a versatile and convenience piece of kit that can be utilised within your engine in a number of ways.

When used as an auxiliary to your engine’s standard issue mechanical water pump, a Davies Craig Electric Water Pump will increase the flow of coolant through your engine, particularly when operating under high stress conditions or elevated temperatures.

What a lot of our customers in your situation have done with great success is add the EWP® (part no 8005 or 8030) into the lower radiator hose, wired direct to the battery via an on/off thermal switch (part no 0401) and use the EWP® as an auxiliary pump, while retaining the existing mechanical belt driven pump.

The EWP® is designed for maximum efficiency at its maximum speed of 2250 rpm. Being in nylon, the impeller can have aerofoil cross section with associated lift, and the tip clearances can be very small.

Research and Development. They’re three words that are barely a blip on the radar when it comes to consumers and products. Davies Craig has plenty of experience in this field because its staff is committed to constant improvement.

Along with our EWP® kits, Davies Craig have electric fans and electric booster pumps. The fans are designed to replace a car’s mechanically driven setup and can be used in conjunction with the EWP®s and their controllers.

As a world leader in their field, Davies Craig understands that sometimes a return to basics is what is needed. And so, it is with our new seven step series of articles on Electric Water Pumps (EWP®), their associated equipment, and installations.

The classic car movement is a strong force in the automotive world. ’57 Chevys, 1970 GT-HOs, E-Type Jags, for example, populate forums and car shows. Every now and then though, a hidden gem pops up, and it’s a sure bet the owner goes to great lengths to make it both look good and help it keep its cool.

Cooling has improved, with water being replaced by specifically formulated coolants and made to work with iron and alloys and moving that coolant has been the subject of research over the last two decades by Davies Craig.

As a world leader in their field, Davies Craig understands that sometimes a return to basics is what’s needed. And so, it’s with our new seven step series of articles on the installation of our Electric Water Pumps (EWP®), their associated equipment.

Drifting has proven to be a fantastic testing ground for Davies Craig products, and Swedish drift driver Andreas Forsberg knows the value of using premium cooling products.

Since the beginning of the time mankind used a mechanical internal combustion engine fueled by petrol/gasoline, a method of cooling the engine device that moved the horseless carriage around was needed.

Life sometimes gives us questions to ponder. Why is the sky blue, are The Rolling Stones a better band than The Beatles, should I have pineapple on a pizza, and what is an Electric Water Pump (EWP®)?