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Jack Stepanian Sam Nazarian All advertisers agree to indemnify Nick Murphy the publisher for all damages or call (02) 9905 8055 Gil Sher liabilities arising from their published Jason Smith or unpublished material. for your nearest Distributor The Automotive Technician 3 The cover photograph, taken in the Engine The drivers Build Room of Ford Performance Racing in Melbourne provides a rare glimpse of the team at the coalface of high performance may be good, racing. The members are (from left) Justin Way – Engine Calibration Performance Manager, Ben Johnston – Engine Technician, but it’s the Ashley Campbell – Engine Building Technician in Charge and Simon Robinson – oil that gets Engine Technician. These team members are featured in other photographs in this cover story. Photography by Mark Horsburgh and them there Scott Wensley – VUE Images ord Performance Racing has been at the top of its develop an oil which is light weight, with a viscosity thin enough to form in recent months, claiming its seventh straight do its job and move around the engine quickly. F win at the most recent Phillip Island race. ‘The oil holds the key to minimising the wear and tear on the While much of the credit for the wins must go to the team’s ace engine, and as a direct result, maximise the performance gain,’ he drivers Will Davison and Mark Winterbottom, the back-room team added. who prepare the engines, eking out every last bit of energy from Ford Performance Racing has been using Castrol oils since the the big 5.0 litre Ford V8s, deserve their share of praise. team was assembled almost 10 years ago. In a workshop simply labelled The Castrol chemists have developed the Engine Build Room at Ford a special synthetic and mineral blend Performance Racing, the engine Viscosity is a of oil, working in conjunction with building technician in charge, Ashley word you will hear Ashley and the Ford Performance Campbell, oversees the preparation Racing team. This combination of skills of every engine before every race. often in the back and dedication has managed to add Engines are stripped and rebuilt, parts room of V8 racing significant horsepower to the capability are put under the microscope for wear of the engines over a 10 - year period, inspection, and oils are drained and recovering some of the ground lost sent to chemists to analyse the contaminants they collect on their through ethanol fuel trials and the introduction several years ago way around the engine. of standardised camshaft profile in this racing category.