TUBE BENDING
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Janspeed changes direction with the help of BLM
anspeed, the Salisbury- based manufacturer of performance exhaust systems has long heritage going back to 1962, when the company was founded by Jan Odor as a performance engineering company specialising in tuning of Minis and Datsuns.
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As the company’s reputation grew it expanded its activities, moved to its current location and began working with major British Touring Car Championship, to the Nissan (as Datsun became) Works team.
While engine tuning at this time was a major component of the company’s success, the work it was doing also included developing exhaust manifolds. The logical extension at the time was to extend this work to provide aftermarket performance exhausts to enthusiasts that wanted to maximise the potential of their
Mark Vaughan (left) and Dave Dawe pictured with the three stack head on the BLM ELECT 80
cars. “This was how the business developed during the 90s, says Managing Director Mark Vaughan. “The work tended to be low volume, bespoke developments, with some standard exhaust products that were available years ago we took the strategic decision to refocus our attention and develop the business. We recognised that there were opportunities for the skills and knowledge that we had in exhaust
design and development that could be applied to the prestige OEM market, with customers such as Lotus Cars, Jaguar Land Rover, Pro- Drive, Bentley and Morgan.” To head up this change Janspeed brought in Dave Dawe as Engineering Manager whose challenge was not only to develop the new business, but also to manage the investment required in people, technology, machine tools, tooling and logistics. This investment was vital to meet
the strict demands of the OEM automotive sector. “This change was not going to a happen overnight. Janspeed was happy to invest in the project, but we had to earn the money that we wanted to invest,” says Dave Dawe. “Therefore, the initial changes were to internal procedures, with the management team creating a wish list of equipment that we thought could take us to the next level in that list was an enhancement of our existing tube bending capability.”
All-electric benders
Janspeed’s tube bending capacity at the time consisted of hydraulic bending machines which, while produced by the company, were considered to be fairly basic and also required high levels of skills drew Janspeed’s attention to all- electric benders with BLM and its BLM ELECT 80 CNC tube bending
The BLM ELECT 80 all electric bender at Janspeed with its touchscreen control
24 IMT June/July 2014
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