I havent been around lately and some people might have noticed the lack of updates. I still own the car and I still plan to go through with the restoration, however I was recently made redundant which ground things to a halt.

Basically, the money I put aside for the build became a bit of a safety net incase I needed to dip into it while looking for work, so that pretty much stopped me buying any of the parts on my list, so the updates dried up. Not to worry, it happens, plenty of people out there have been through similar (and much worse), what with the whole world gone crazy this past 6 months, but things are turning round now and everything is good again.

The build will start to ramp back up again in the coming weeks and months, a few changes of plans have come about while on hiatus, new plans for the suspension (coilovers), chassis/body strengthening (including a roll cage) and the manufacturing of parts to be sold through the website are just some of the developments looming on the horizon.

Stay tuned, its going to be fun.

The brakes arrived from Lee of massive brakes last week. Lee shipped them out from canada and they arrived here in 5 days, talk about service.

Lee produces a big brake kit for the E21 utilising wilwood rotors and superlite forged 4 piston calipers, coupled with his own manufactured hats, brackets and other associated components. The rotors utilised are a massive 300x32mm heavy duty rotor which will take all the abuse you can throw at it. If you really must have the best brakes you can buy for your E21, get in contact with lee, you will find his link in the plugs section.

Read more about the kit here

Unfortunately, one of the problems living in australia is the bmw performance part scene is pretty limited. The majority of parts are imported by companies then resold into the market, often bringing with them large markups which price the product out of the market for a good percentage of bmw owners.

After having my camshaft damaged in transport I started looking around for options to purchase a replacement in the country, only to find limited australian suppliers, most of which offer regrinds and not new billet cams. I straight out refused to pay a workshop in australia double the cost to supply me a schrick camshaft, when honestly, Id rather keep importing my own camshaft until one arrived undamaged than pay stupid amounts.

The whole scene left me a little dismayed to tell you the truth, as the old adage goes, put up or shut up; So I decided to do something about it.

Above are examples of the first run of blackbmw 293' camshafts to be produced, supplied and supported in australia. All our camshafts are manufactured from fresh blank billets, (the same quality billets used by companies such as catcam's and dbilas), machined to match the correct profile for your application, then parkerised via an acid treatment to help protect the lobes and retain oil on the surface during break in.

While I firmly believe regrinds have their place, their one limitation is you cant produce large amounts of lift due to being largely restricted to the physical valve lift produced by the original core. Yes, you can build up the lobes of a camshaft to increase valve lift above the original profile, however when talking the realm of 4mm, it just isnt possible so a new billet is the only solution.

New profiles will be added soon, so check out the forsale section for information on our camshafts.