With a combined 35 Years experience in motorsport fabrication and racing car manufacture, Russell Varnals & Shane Harvey incorporated RS Fabrications and started producing fabricated components at the start of January 2006.

Russell’s background is principally racing car manufacture and race team duties associated with professional competition racing. Having worked in Group C with Spice Engineering and Formula One with Spirit F1, three IMSA Championships and Le Mans with Nissan (NPTI), Russell ended his time in the USA as Fabrication & Machine Shop Manager with Swift Engineering, through their Indy Car and Atlantic Chassis Build. He returned to England in 1999, to continue Fabrication in the British Motorsport Industry.

Shane’s fabrication & welding skills developed in Banbury, concentrating his career in Rally Car Manufacture and Performance Road Car related components. Working with Autosport Developments, 22 Motorsport, SDW Light Fabrication & Cherwell Truck Racing.

Shane fabricated a diverse selection of racing car equipment, chassis, roll cage and suspension components covering all aspects of vehicle performance engineering. In his spare time he built a Show Winning Cosworth Turbo Fiesta, for which there was no compromise for fabrication finish quality or cost in build specification.

Russell & Shane’s association together has resulted in the start of a company with high capability in precision welding and fabrication, combined with realistic cost and calculated timeline manufacture.

With a new workshop in Banbury, equipment was purchased and installed on site at the end of 2005, resulting in a fully equipped engineering and fabrication facility.

Machinery includes:

  • 2.5m 50 Ton Safan Brakepress
  • 2.5m Metal Shear
  • Bridgeport Mill
  • Harrison Lathe
  • Pierce All Hydraulic Punch
  • 2 Post Vehicle Lift

The Facility has 4 FabricationWorkstations, equipped with Tig Welding sets, 2 Surface Tables, 2 Fly presses, Sheetmetal Pinch Rollers and various metal forming & sanding equipment for precision fabrication. An inspection department can also verify components conformity, prior to delivery.

Banbury is a thriving industrial town in central England with good access, via M40, to all parts or the country. In this area there are a great number of associated engineering support suppliers stretching from Silverstone in Northamptonshire, through Banbury and onto London, toward the south of England.

RS Fabrications specialise in aspects of Vehicle Performance Engineering and Fabrication, covering Roll cage installation, racing car uprights and suspension components, radiators, intercoolers, fuel & oil tanks and complete Exhaust Systems. Racing Car preparation and maintenance can also be undertaken at the Banbury facility.

Fabrication & Machining capacity has resulted in work on cooling and induction systems, motorcycle components, customised Chopper and Superbike fabrications, stainless steel Truck parts and fast road car chassis & engine installations. Pit equipment has also been manufactured for customers in car & motorcycle racing as well as tooling for production manufacture of close tolerance fabrications.

RS Fabrications can quote on any of your individual engineering and fabrication requirements, producing finished work of the highest quality and standard.