The camshaft arrived this week from flying brick performance, unfortunately it arrived in 2 pieces. 

Its always a bit of a risky business shipping an item like this across such a large distance. Camshafts arent actually very strong, the treated lobes are very hard to resist damage and wear from impact but the metal is actually quite brittle and can be easily damaged. Any weight across the cam or a sharp knock to one end could see it snap clean through (as in my case). Now, generally good packaging will take care of this, but nothing is assured and accidents do happen. This however leaves me with a problem, pistons are paid for, headwork is done as far as can be, now the camshaft is holding up the whole process.

The approximate cost of importing another camshaft from the states or the UK runs to approximately $700 and can take 3-4 weeks wait before stock arrives, then another week or more to ship the item out to me. This has left me exploring other options, I have spoken to a few camshaft regrinders here in aus and a real possibility is having a brand new fresh billet copied from the broken cam. This eliminates the shipping issue and will take approximately 1 week to produce.

The cost to create an initial profile is quite high, however once it has been created, the cost to produce a camshaft drops. If a price can be arranged, I might look into the possibility of producing a few camshafts in various profiles, a limited run of a few items to begin with, then if they sell, expand the range.

Thanks do go out to Daniel from flying brick performance, when the camshaft arrived broken he arranged a full refund quickly so the build could continue.