Category: New Products

Product related news and articles

  • Alcar Launches New 2010 Collection and Brochure

    Alcar, the UK’s leading wheel manufacturer and distributor has launched its 2010 catalogue. The 19 page publication outlines the firm’s superb new range for the coming season and has already been sent to over 2000 leading retailers across Europe.

    As well as some exciting new additions to Alcar’s award-winning Dotz alloy wheel range, the catalogue also outlines their stunning new Calibre range – aimed squarely at niche and retro car markets – with what are bound to be some of the ‘must have’ designs this year.

    Notable new releases include the evocative ‘Vintage’ – a pseudo split-rim cross-spoke wheel that oozes ‘80s touring car cool and ‘Dub, which as the name suggests, should find many fans in the Euro and VAG scenes.

    The Calibre range has also set out to cater for the burgeoning light commercial and SUV markets, with numerous designs available in the correct offsets, stud patterns and load indexes for these heavier machines. Designs like the Tour and Trek will look superb on vehicles like the VW Transporter and Mercedes Vito, whilst the new Tairo mixes immense strength with high fashion for the 4×4 market.

    On launching the 2010 collection, Alcar M.D, Kevin Greer said. ‘We’re extremely proud of our 2010 line up. Not only have we got some of our greatest designs to date, but we’re very excited about the niche markets that we can service with the new Calibre range. Pre-orders on those new designs suggest that the dealers are already getting fired up about them. It’s going to be a good year!’

    The new catalogue also outlines details and order processes for the new Alcar online web shop and is freely available to any trade or retail customers by calling, or emailing Alcar directly

  • Richbrook Dipstick Wiper

    Don’t Be A Dipstick.. Check Your Oil With Richbrook

    Richbrook’s somewhat self-explanatory Dipstick Wiper might just solve a perennial automotive problem. Every single year, literally millions of engines fail due to the wholly avoidable problem of lack of oil. We all know that we should check it, but faffing around looking for a rag to wipe the dipstick is often discouragement enough for us to wait until the oil light comes on to tell us that something’s wrong.

    Keeping an oily rag in the car isn’t too pleasant either. Under the bonnet it might get sucked into the air intake or fan, or worse still get hot and catch fire. The best you can hope for is that it gets full of water and slowly rusts through the inner wing..

    The Dipstick Wiper, as well as being the source of numerous double-entendres and ‘Only Fools and Horses’ gags around the Richbrook offices, offers a neatly self contained solution to this simple, but vitally important problem.

    Simply turn the top to reveal an absorbent foam aperture. Slide the oily dipstick through to fully clean it and then take a clear and accurate reading from the sump. Simple as that. Turn the top to close and any oily residue is kept safely inside, meaning that it can reside anywhere, from your trouser pocket – to your glovebox or toolkit. True ergonomiscists can even use the enclosed 3M adhesive pad to affix the ‘Rodney’ (as he’s known) to a suitable place in the engine bay, meaning that a handy, clean wipe – and possibly a hilarious pun – is always within easy reach.

    At £2.95 including VAT, postage and packing from www.richbrook.co.uk, it’s the cheapest way to ensure that your engine is in tip-top order. You’d be a plonker not to, Rodney!

    For more information on the Richbrook range of high quality car accessories, please visit www.richbrook.co.uk or call the team on 01328 862387.

  • RCM Parallel Fuel Rail Kit. Fuel’s Gold!

    Current TOTB and Time Attack Champions Roger Clark Motorsport have released yet another one of their own superb trophy winning tricks into the market place; their parallel fuel rail kit.

    On the standard Subaru engine, fuel is delivered is a ‘series’ style circuit, feeding first one bank of cylinders before stretching around the block to deliver to the remaining two. In high performance applications, this somewhat simplistic design can see unequal pressures and delivery on either side of the engine, resulting in dire consequences for the ‘last’ cylinder in the sequence.

    RCM Parallel Fuel Rail

    The RCM solution is a direct adaptation of the units designed and tested by the team on the hugely successful ‘Gobstopper’ race car. The fuel arrives from a central line, before being precisely split into two parallel feeds which then service each cylinder bank. The result is perfectly equal pressures feeding each injector.

    The kit consists of  two beautifully extruded rails, four dash 6 stainless steel ends, complete with ‘o’ ring, fitting brackets. In testing, the kit has been happy to keep up with the prodigious thirst of RCM’s own 890 bhp test cars, so whatever flat-four trickery you’re planning under the bonnet, it’s safe to say that this kit can cope.

    Priced at £425 + VAT you’d be fuellish not to.. Fits all 2001 on engines, both 2.0 and 2.5 litre.

    For more details on the team or the magic they can perform on any Subaru, please visit www.rogerclarkmotorsport.co.uk or call them on 01455 828610.