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Engine building · Track prep · Southend-on-Sea

Race, track day and fast road engine builds, and road cars prepared for the track, backed by more than 50 years of building engines. Every job is measured, recorded and documented.

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Services

Engines built to be used hard, and cars ready for the track

Engine building

New race, track day and fast road builds, plus rebuilds and refreshes of engines that already work hard.

  • Strip-down and inspection, with findings photographed
  • Every critical clearance measured and checked against spec
  • Machining where it's needed
  • Assembly to a checklist, with every torque recorded
  • Valve clearances set and shim sizes noted
  • Compression ratio worked out from the measurements
  • A full build sheet with the finished engine

Track prep

Getting your road car ready for track days, so it's safe, dependable and still fine to drive home afterwards.

  • Pre-track safety inspection
  • Brakes: high-temperature fluid, and pads suited to track use
  • Oils, fluids and filters
  • Suspension, bushes and wheel bearings checked
  • Wheel alignment set up for the track
  • A written report of what was found and done

Makes we've worked on

British

  • Austin
  • BL
  • MG
  • Triumph
  • and more

European

  • Ford
  • Vauxhall
  • VW
  • Audi
  • Peugeot
  • Renault
  • Saab, pre-GM

At home with classic fuel systems too: carburettors and early fuel injection.

How we work

Attention to detail, from strip-down to handover

Good work comes down to attention to detail, in the small jobs as much as the big ones. We measure everything that matters, check it against the spec and record every step, so you know exactly what went into your engine or your car.

  1. Measure

    Bearings, bores, pistons, ring gaps, crank and valve clearances are measured and checked against the manufacturer's or the build spec's tolerances. Anything outside them is dealt with before assembly.

  2. Record

    Readings, torques, parts and part numbers are recorded against your build as the work happens, not written up from memory afterwards.

  3. Hand over

    You get the build sheet: what we found, what we did, what was fitted and what every reading was. It's useful when you run the engine in and when you sell the car.

An example. Every build gets its own sheet.

About

Fifty years of building engines

Trackday Cars is built on more than 50 years of engine building. That covers most of the British manufacturers, from Austin, BL, MG and Triumph onwards, and European makes including Ford, Vauxhall, VW, Audi, Peugeot, Renault and classic, pre-GM Saab.

More than 40 of those years have been spent on high-performance and race engines of many makes, along with the systems that feed them: carburettors and the early generations of fuel injection that few workshops still know well.

That experience goes into every engine we build and every car we prepare in Southend-on-Sea, and the build sheet records it all.

Enquire

Tell us about the car and what you want from it

The more you tell us at the start, the more useful our first reply can be. These help most:

  1. The carMake, model and year.
  2. The engineWhat it is, its engine code if you know it, and anything already done to it.
  3. How it's usedRoad, track days or racing, and which series.
  4. What you'd likeA fresh build, a rebuild, track prep, or a problem to sort out.
  5. Budget and timingA rough budget, and when you need the car back.

Email us and we'll get back to you. The button starts an email with those headings filled in.

info@trackdaycars.co.uk

Southend-on-Sea, Essex