Julian Pearce

About Julian

Julian joined Tecnologico Meze back in May 2018 after spending 14 years at a main dealer in Eastleigh. He got tired of the corporate scripts and wanted to get back to actually fixing things. He is the first person in the shop at 8:15 AM every morning, usually starting the day by checking the calibration on our TIG welder. Julian is the one who handles the delicate top-end work on the older Ferrari 360 and 430 models that come through our Southampton doors.

He is obsessed with how heat cycles matter for performance engines. Last November, he spent 19 hours straight on a engine timing issue for a client's Maserati that three other shops had given up on. He doesn't just swap parts; he looks for why they failed in the first place. You will often find him at the lathe turning a custom spacer because the factory part wasn't up to his standards. He uses Titanium grade 2 only for our custom exhaust brackets because anything else just cracks under the stress of a V10.

On the fabrication side, Julian is our lead for exhaust flow. He performs a back pressure check on every system we build before it leaves the bench. If the numbers aren't within 0.2 psi of our target, he cuts it back and starts again. It is a slow process, but it ensures the car sounds right without losing low-end torque. He treats every car like it's going on the dyno that afternoon, even if it's just in for a standard oil change.

To be upfront, Julian isn't the guy to write a long, flowery email about your car's feelings. He is blunt and practical. He will show you the worn bearing and tell you exactly how many miles it had left—usually not many. He's managed over 87 engine-out services since he started with us, and he still keeps a physical notebook of every torque setting he uses. Honestly, we'd be lost without his technical memory and his refusal to rush a job.

By the way, if you see him in the workshop, don't ask him about his tea—he only drinks it one specific way and will spend ten minutes explaining why the water temperature affects the brew. When he isn't under a lift, he is usually refining our chip-tuning maps for the local track day crowd. He focuses on driveability rather than just chasing a big horsepower number that looks good on paper but feels terrible on the road.