a family run business since the 1930's
HPE Motorsport was founded in the 1930s when Albert Harris used to repair & tune motorcycles. His son, the legendary Ron Harris, inherited the mechanical expertise and know-how to progress the business onto cars in the early 1950s.
With all four sons interested in cars, Ron Harris was under increasing pressure to step the business up a level and develop further techniques to increase the performance and speed of his engines.
Due to the racing success of the Harris boys, Ron became increasingly busy with builds of Hotrod, Stock Rod, & Stock Car engines. Dozens of drivers won races and championships with HPE Motorsport engines under the hood of their cars!
By putting in Ford small block V8 engines, these cars could be seen throughout the 70s and 80s tearing up the roads and subsequently drumming up further custom for HPE Motorsport in modifying engines.
With all those years of experience, Ron has developed the Ford Kent crossflow and Ford Pinto engines to the very high level of tune that they are today. We are achieving very good results with both Andy and now James, further strengthening the HPE Motorsport name. The tuning and pace we achieve in our MK1 and MK2 Escorts at various race meets, including Santa Pod (in Northampton), still surprises everyone. Even Ron, at the young age of 74 years, continues to compete at the Brighton speed trials and other sprinting events.
As Jeff takes a step back; James takes a leap forward. The first step in the development and expansion of HPE Motorsport is this brand new website. You can now view our
and are exclusive to HPE Motorsport.
With the growth of HPE Motorsport and as a start to the James Harris legacy it made perfect sense to push forward into our online presence. With Jeff looking to take a step back a new plan was born.
To keep HPE Motorsport at the top of our game as we have been since the 1930’s we thought it was important to have a website that represented the quality that our brand has become famous for. Not only must the website look good but it must be functional, making it easier for our fans to purchase our products. We enlisted the help of local photographer
