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Swallows Racing are delighted and proud to announce an official new partnership with the Jaguar Enthusiasts’ Club. On 26th November 2021 JEC TrackSport was launched through the JEC website and on their social media channels. “The Jaguar Enthusiasts’ Club are excited to announce to members, the launch of a new programme of track, hill climb, sprint and navigational events under the newly formed initiative of JEC TrackSport”. This announcement fits neatly with Swallows Racing’s development of performance parts for the Jaguar range and will assist with the continued expansion of parts for…

Could there be a better way to banish the winter lockdown blues than a sunny spring weekend racing at Silverstone Circuit? Life at Swallows has remained hectic over the winter months, but that has never stopped us from being able to focus on the start of the racing season. Continually looking for ways where we can gain vital tenths of a second, the development of Tom’s XJR6 has been maintained throughout. Improvements to cooling, handling, and weight reduction were tested and re-tested before heading to the historic home of British motorsport.…

Swallow Racing in conjunction with our partners at Performance Vehicle Engineering have created the first plug and play AJ16 Loom & ECU Packages. A complete solution for running the AJ16 family of engines in pretty much anything! This package is shipped complete with ECU, and plug-in loom, as pictured. All you need to do, is supply an ignition feed, a 12v constant feed, and add in a fuel pump & fuel pump relay. This runs the later 2-pin coil packs. For other options please contact: enquiries@swallows-jag.co.uk We can build these at…

Swallows Racing director Tom Robinson has been added to the technical panel of the Jaguar Enthusiasts’ Club who’s headquarters are in near-by Bristol. Tom’s superb knowledge of modern Jaguars has been recognised by the JEC and he will be regularly answering members questions in the club magazine, online and on the JEC Podcast where he has been a regular over the past 12 months. In addition Tom will be involved in a series of ‘Tech Talks’ on Zoom through the JEC the first on being as part of panel with Ken…

Thousands of viewers have followed the progress of the Meguiar’s S-Type R build on the TOM v’s DALE show on YouTube. The plan was for the finished car to be launched at the Players Show at Goodwood in 2020. Due to Covid restrictions this unfortunately didn’t happen and a new plan had to be agreed for the car to be launched. Fast Car magazine had followed the builds of both Tom and Dale’s cars from the outset, so it was felt that this was the place it should be seen first.…

Swallows would like to wish all our clients a happy New Year. Let us hope that the current Covid situation will improve by the spring and we will be able to get out and enjoy our cars again. In the meantime, we must once again live within the most recent lockdown rules that have now come into force. We wanted to assure our clients, that as with the previous lockdowns last spring and in the autumn, Swallows will remain open and able to fully function whilst adhering to the Covid Safe…

We have seen some rapid growth for Swallows Independent Jaguar, Land Rover and Swallows Racing over the last couple years and despite the challenges of 2020. To tackle the increase demand, we have grown our team here, in the workshop, office, and car sales and we have continued plans to grow our team further in 2021. To ensure that we continue to keep pace with our growth we have invested in the very latest Garage Management software system. Known as Garage Hive it has built by people who run and understand…

After warming up the XJR6 at our track day on 20th October it was back to the serious matter of racing with the Jaguar Enthusiasts Club Saloon & GT Championship on 24th October at Castle Combe. With second place overall in the Championship in the bag this was essential a free round with no championship points at stake. Qualifying was on damp but drying circuit and by lap seven Tom had the X300 singing and took pole from the naturally aspirated X300 of Michael Holt but with a healthy three second…

Our track day with the JEC on 20th October proved to be a huge draw with over 160 people attending. With Covid and social distance measures in place it didn’t detract from what was a very successful event and our grateful thanks goes to our volunteers from JEC Somerset Region that marshalled the gate and made this possible.  With our own track cars (Palmersport XKR, Palmer JP1 and XJR6 Race Car) giving the usual passenger rides it was also the perfect opportunity to test the manual conversion of our Palmer XKR…