BlackLine Racing

BlackLine Racing Vintage VW and Porsche performance and carburetor restoration specialists Volkswagens truly are our passion and our drive.
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Here, at Blackline Racing, we pride ourselves in building the highest quality air cooled engines that money can buy. The McAllisters currently hold land speed records set on the Bonneville Salt Flats and are always ready to help other racers any way they can. The local VW community is also very important to all of us and we look forward to any sponsorship negotiations that come our way. Justin McA

llister, has honed and refined his skills since the age of 16. He got his start as the shop boy at BC Autoworks where he stayed as their engine builder for 4 1/2 years. After high school he went on to complete the 2 year automotive program and ASE Master Tech certifications at Weber State. Once he felt as though he had learned all he could at BC he went on to refine his air cooled skills at Air Cooled Engineering under Art Thraen. Art saw so much potential in Justin that they began talk of Justin buying the place not too long after he was hired. Justin worked under Art for 5 years before the deal was made, and Blackline Racing was born March 1, 2013! We were lucky enough to hold on to carburetor specialist Dave Hogarth, who rebuilt Air Cooled Engineering’s carburetors for the last 10 years, while Art shifted his focus to his HVAC business. Dave retired from carburetor restorations in the Fall of 2019 but will always be a part of the Blackline family. Shayla and Justin are grateful to have learned all they could from him and are proud to continue providing the same quality carburetor restorations you’ve all grown to depend upon.

05/31/2026
05/31/2026

FAMILY REUNION WEEKEND JUNE 19-21
Boise Idaho, USA
Join us for Southwest Idaho's VW weekend!
3 days of cruising, swapping, rallying and showing!
June 19th 7pm
Cruise-in Hangout and Cruise.
Standard Restaurant Supply
June 20th 8am
Swap-meet
RMF
June 20th 2pm
Navigational Road Rallye
Shoreline Drive
June 21st 9:30
32nd Annual Car show on the grass
Kleiner Park, Meridian
This of course wouldn't be possible without your support and the support of our sponsors!
•Think Small VW engine repair
•RMF
•CB Performance
•Vintage Speed
•EMPI
•Big O Tires
•Viking Industrial
•Boise Volkswagen
•Idaho Air Cooled Werks
•Blackline Racing
•Standard Restaurant Supply
•Salute Apparel

05/30/2026
05/01/2026

We know many of you wait for the conditions update before registering for T&T so here ya go: things are looking better than last year at this point! 🤍 we need 50 PRE entries to be able to hold the event. You can roll over (in full) to World of Speed or request a refund (minus a small fee) if the event is cancelled.

Dennis Sullivan and Larry Volk were able to go out and do a quick assessment of the salt before the storms a hit. They are reporting that it is a LOT whiter than last season and all of the dirt has a small layer of salt 🧂 they were able to drive down courses 1 & 2 to the 4mile before it got too damp to continue and the courses are thin but should make for a race able track as long as Mother Nature keeps playing nice. Like last year, there is more salt accumulating towards the north end.
-Monday, Dennis is going back out to assess how things have faired after the rain.
-Dennis and Larry are planning on another trip out later in the month.

02/27/2026

PLEASE LIKE & SHARE IT HELPS! 1917 Utah-Salduro Company began mining potash at the Bonneville Salt Flats U.S. Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management Utah Department of Natural Resources Utah Division of Water Resources Gov. Spencer J. Cox Rep. Celeste Maloy United States Senator Mike Lee Senator John Curtis

02/04/2026

We have a racer in need. James Holth has dropped an exhaust seat and is looking for a replacement. He currently runs 94mm Wedgeports. We can pickup anywhere on US98 westcoast Florida to get him through the week. Fortunately tomorrow is a drive day giving us some time. Thank you!

Blackline Racing has just acquired another Stuska water brake engine dyno! This new to us twin rotor Stuska was recently...
02/01/2026

Blackline Racing has just acquired another Stuska water brake engine dyno! This new to us twin rotor Stuska was recently rebuilt by Stuska and is good to over 1200hp! It is also set up with Land and Sea data acquisition and automatic load control! We are super excited to go through the process of getting this dyno all set up and start testing it out! We will also now have the capability to dyno tuning watercooled VW, Chevrolet LS, Chevrolet big block , Chevrolet small block, Honda v6, Subaru, and MG/Austin 4 cylinders. The ultimate reason we acquired this new dyno is so we can be ready for our new land speed engine program now that we are getting closer to having engines going together!

We’ve been crazy busy and these 4 bolt sandcast Solexs have been done for a while. We finally found a few moments to get...
02/01/2026

We’ve been crazy busy and these 4 bolt sandcast Solexs have been done for a while. We finally found a few moments to get the pictures of the restoration process for Jack Morris to go on a 4 cam project he is working on. These were really exciting to work on and put back to factory show room condition. Correct parts and hardware for these early carburetors are a bit tricky to come by so we had to fabricate and modify some available components to get them back together. Enjoy this deep dive into the anatomy of some very early German racing carburetors!

Address

613 W 300 S
Blackfoot, ID
83221

Opening Hours

Monday 9am - 6pm
Tuesday 9am - 6pm
Wednesday 9am - 6pm
Thursday 9am - 6pm
Friday 9am - 6pm
Saturday 10am - 3pm

Telephone

+18017473342

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