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From the digital world of computer aided design to the real world racetrack, mountune Racing leads the way in motorsport and high performance engine design and development. Being experts in small displacement turbocharged builds, mountune racing engines are carefully specified for reliability and optimum performance.

Mountune was founded in Maldon, Essex UK in 1980 by David Mountain. Mountune’s enhanced Ford EcoBoost engines are currently instrumental in powering several teams in the ultra-competitive British Touring Car Championship, as well as several other series throughout the world market.

Originally focused on developing the British Leyland A series engine for motorsport use, the company expanded quickly backed by the reputation gained from numerous race victories. Ford released the infamous 2.0L YB engine powering the Sierra RS in 1986.

David Mountain quickly realised the potential of this twin cam, 4 valve turbocharged engine and started development for race and rally applications. Mountune’s team of engineers worked closely with Ford’s own motorsport group based at the infamous Boreham facility in the UK to supply various works teams and 100’s of privateers with Ford YB engines. In 1990, the mountune powered Ford Sierra RS500 of Rob Gravett won the British Touring Car Championship resulting in mountune supplying race winning engines to customers around the world. In the early ’90s, Group A rallying was the pinnacle of its sport and the works Escort Cosworth’s were all powered by mountune- built, 2- litre Ford YB engines.

The mountune-built Ford YB gained global status as the engine to have resulting in podium finishes ranging from touring cars to WRC.

1993 saw Francois Delecour on the podium no less than six times finishing in second overall in WRC relying on mountune power. 1994 brought with it more podiums and victory at the Monte Carlo event -won again by Francois Delecour. 1996 was also a fruitful year with a win at the Rally Indonesia and a host of podiums coming from works driver Carlos Sainz –who finished 3rd in the overall drivers’ championship that year too. Of course the Ford YB engine went on to power the Ford Escort RS and over the years, Mountune powered Escorts visited the podium on countless events.

1999 was the launch of the Ford Focus WRC and the ‘works’ Focus WRC was powered by a mountune developed Ford Zetec 2-litre turbocharged engine. The highly developed Ford Zetec achieved victories in the famed Safari Rally and many other significant rallies.

With the launch of the Ford Duratec engine platform in 2000, mountune quickly developed a range of highly tuned engines to support various motorsport applications. Ranging from Formula Ford to Touring cars, the Ford Duratec engine platform remains popular to this day and mountune continues to offer components and engine assemblies.

The mountune developed Ford Duratec engine has also been used with great success in the Global Rallycross (GRC) series powering both the very competitive GRC Lites class and the high-powered Supercar platform.

Mountune/ Ford powered cars have dominated the series since the inception of the GRC series.

Mountune also recognised the motorsport potential of the Ford EcoBoost range of 4 cylinder engines and in 2014, and commenced with the development of a variety of engines to meet various applications. The mountune enhanced Ford EcoBoost engines still power several teams in the ultra competitive British Touring Car Championship (BTCC) today, including several other series throughout the world market.

In 2016, David Mountain was approached by BTCC’s Team BMR’s Manager and industry friend, Alan Cole in regards to the build of engines for the teams four-strong team.

Mountune have since supplied the team with 2-litre Boxer turbocharged engines which featured a revised inlet manifold, designed and developed in-house. The end result of a substantial engine development program was to assist in powering the team straight to the top of the 2017 BTCC drivers’ title.

View our comprehensive engine catalogue to see how mountune Racing can help power you to the front of the grid, or check out our website for our range of high performance components.

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