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There’s a distinct character to Jaguar vehicles, it’s a fusion of effortless power, elegance, and that unmistakable rear-drive rhythm. Yet even the most carefully engineered performance saloon or grand tourer has its compromises, especially when built to serve a mass-market audience. Beneath all the beauty and brawn lies a structural compromise many owners never notice, until they fix it. Apologies to any accountants reading this but they are the ones who often design cars, not the engineers and hence to the compromise.  “ The Swallows Racing  X100 Lower Chassis Braces Bring…

F1 and WEC racing teams are closely aligned with lubricant and fluid manufacturers and almost all teams have technicians from their suppliers embedded in their teams such is the importance of lubricants and fluids to the performance of the race car. ExxonMobil are partnered with Red Rull, Shell’s relationship with Ferrari goes back through the decades, Gulf with Ford and later Porsche, Petronas are aligned with Mercedes, and of course Castrol were involved with TWR throughout the success Le Mans and IMSA programme during the 80s/90s. Prior to that Motul backed…

Pre-season testing plays a highly important role in our preparations for racing. It’s key to getting both the car and driver dialled in for the year ahead. For Swallows Racing pre-season also has another important function. It’s the first opportunity for us to test new performance parts we have been developing over the winter. An example would be the test day we did in March at Donington Park.  We have been working with a new partner to create radiators and coolers for a range of Jaguars. At Donington we were able…

SR New Silicone Hose Range Swallows Racing is constantly expanding our silicone hose range, with new hoses being dropped every few months we felt we would give some love to some of most requested models in this latest batch. Both top radiator hoses for the F-type in AWD and RWD format, the RWD version also fits 5.0 X150 models. Range Rover 4.4 V8 Inlet Manifold Joiners – Specially formulated wall construction for high oil pass and stronger ply thickness for high intake pressures. The highly requested 3.0 V6 Supercharged Valley Pipe…

Its that time of year again where Swallows Racing hosts its cars and coffee event, opening the doors to 3 regions of the JEC as well as friends and customers to enjoy artisan coffee, good food and great conversion. Sunday the 1st of June at 09.00am until 01.00pm we will host roughly 150 people, giving you the opportunity to see all of our race cars and builds. This insight will also include how we create our cars through design and fabrication to geometry set up and driver coaching. We will have…

External influences occasionally are motivation for new product development. Whilst our primary drivers are improving car performance sometimes at Swallows Racing, we also have the dual influences of solving limited part supply or offering more cost-effective solutions to parts that have become overly expensive for one reason or another. These reasons can include world events that disrupt the normal supply chains such as Covid, the Ukraine war and high prices of global traded commodities. Catalytic converts are a prime example of a car component that is both affected by limited supply…

Defender L663 Performance Packages Ever since the controversial yet striking and capable L663 Defender had launched its following and tuning base has been growing fast. Equally as customisable as the older generation but with all the comforts you would come to expect from a new Land Rover, this car is ready for the SR performance treatment and that is exactly what we have done. Our first goal was to complete a full turbo back exhaust system fabricated in house with exceptional quality using 303 stainless and purge welded for industry leading…

New Powerflex Products Are Incoming For Late Land Rover And Range Rover Models Land Rover‘s Premium SUV offerings have a lot of boxes to tick, combining practicality, high-end luxury, and the ability to transition from on-road to off-road seamlessly. This is especially true for D7u/x platform vehicles, including the latest Discovery and Defender. Naturally, given the weight and usage of these vehicles, they can be hard on their bushes, and an area that suffers most is the large oil-filled bush in the front radius arm, where excessive wheel deflection and ‘snatching’…

Twenty-one years have passed since legendary British Touring Car Champion and race car builder Andy Rouse proudly unveiled his bold plan for the future of touring car racing in the UK. It was 2004, when Rouse took the wraps off the Jaguar X Type SCV8 at the Autosport International show with fellow series planner and business partner Pete Hall. Sadly the ‘Brave New World’ of SCV8 racing never came to fruition. The only legacy of the plan was the car itself which Rouse and Hall had ploughed a small fortune into.…