david vizard
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I am sure there will be a few who will say I need no introduction but I am sure there are a lot more who would say 'who is this guy - he needs to introduce himself'
Well here is a quick rundown.
I am 77 years old. Built my first flow bench and started porting heads in 1958. Since then I have had several best selling books published on the subject of heads and airflow. My work has been on everything from F1 to Prostock - Nascar to British Touring Car Championship, Formula 5000 and many others. Have won 4 championships by winning every race in the series. Chrysler UK, with my head, carb, cam and exhaust work, won two championships with a pushrod engine against the best the European and Japanese twin cam engines could do (no weight break here - if a team chooses to run with what could be called an inferior design that's their problem). Have my name on over 40 automotive patents. Have driven a self built car to a track record on every major UK race track. Best year as a race engine builder was a combined 169 track records, pole positions, fastest time of day, race wins and championship wins with 5 championship wins that year. But a lot of water has gone under the bridge since I started racing in 1959.
What I do now is hi-tech two and three day seminars at universities all over the english speaking world.
I also run 3 day tech seminars and 10 day cylinder head development seminars from my shop at the house.
I have had just shy of 4000 magazine articles published along with 35 books of which 5 have been publishers best sellers. I have a strong consultancy clientele.
I am looking at the length of this intro and it is already looking too long. If you want to know more about me then Google 'David Vizard' and it will reveal more than anyone could ever want.
Looking thru some of the tech forum stuff I see that there is head, cam and valve train tech that is somewhat dated. If anyone is really interested I can, in many instances, bring them up to 2020 tech!
DV
Well here is a quick rundown.
I am 77 years old. Built my first flow bench and started porting heads in 1958. Since then I have had several best selling books published on the subject of heads and airflow. My work has been on everything from F1 to Prostock - Nascar to British Touring Car Championship, Formula 5000 and many others. Have won 4 championships by winning every race in the series. Chrysler UK, with my head, carb, cam and exhaust work, won two championships with a pushrod engine against the best the European and Japanese twin cam engines could do (no weight break here - if a team chooses to run with what could be called an inferior design that's their problem). Have my name on over 40 automotive patents. Have driven a self built car to a track record on every major UK race track. Best year as a race engine builder was a combined 169 track records, pole positions, fastest time of day, race wins and championship wins with 5 championship wins that year. But a lot of water has gone under the bridge since I started racing in 1959.
What I do now is hi-tech two and three day seminars at universities all over the english speaking world.
I also run 3 day tech seminars and 10 day cylinder head development seminars from my shop at the house.
I have had just shy of 4000 magazine articles published along with 35 books of which 5 have been publishers best sellers. I have a strong consultancy clientele.
I am looking at the length of this intro and it is already looking too long. If you want to know more about me then Google 'David Vizard' and it will reveal more than anyone could ever want.
Looking thru some of the tech forum stuff I see that there is head, cam and valve train tech that is somewhat dated. If anyone is really interested I can, in many instances, bring them up to 2020 tech!
DV