Meet the Brintech Technicians
As a business, it is crucial to have exceptional staff. It has taken a number of years to assemble this team of professional, skilled and dedicated team members.
You can have the confidence that your car is being handled by some of the industry's leaders.
Laurence Brincat
-Director & Senior Technician
Laurence’s passion for machinery started at an early age in his home town of Murwillumbah, NSW. Living next door to a mechanical workshop, he found himself in there every afternoon as a teenager.
After finishing school, he decided to start his own business in IT, still finding himself tinkering with his cars during evenings and weekends. So, in 2011 Brintech Customs was established. Starting from a small garage in North Rocks with 1 employee, Brintech Customs moved to Seven Hills in 2013, and then to Castlereagh in 2021. The business now has a fantastic team and is still growing.
Laurence’s vision for the business is to continually challenge the norm with exciting new engine conversions that meet everyone’s needs.
Josh Cousins
-Workshop manager & senior technician
Josh started at Brintech in 2014, and with his 20 years of experience in the industry, he is definitely a highly skilled, well-rounded technician. He has an eye for technical ability and good quality work.
Josh’s motivation to always push forward and achieve goals has led him to become a leader in coordinating builds and automotive work in the custom car industry.
Being a master mechanic, Josh is able to instil and forge the proper techniques for up and coming technicians that he guides.
“The part of my job that I am most passionate about is fabrication. When you fabricate something, you can appreciate the skill involved and enjoy seeing the end product.”
Tony Newport
-Engine expert
At the age of 15, Tony was already racing at his favourite hotspots: Amaroo park, Oran Park, Silverdale Hill climb and Catalina. He owned a Fiat 124 sport coupe which no one believed to be a match for the Alphas. However, after years of engine modifications, it beat every other car on the track. This keen interest of his turned into a passion for all things motorsports and engines.
His interest and fascination with engines propelled him into a high level of engine reconditioning work for multinational companies such as Rolls-Royce MTU, the ZF company and Wartsila (where he worked on surface ships, submarine engines and military engines). Tony now works in our custom BMW workshop’s dust-free engine room overseeing all our BMW and LS engine builds. His extensive experience around and inside engines ranging from tens of thousands of horsepower right down to 50HP has given him the skills to determine the causes of engine failure, the characteristics of what’s happening inside an engine under different conditions and most importantly, how to assemble for the best chance for any engine to be efficient and reliable.
Another huge bonus with Tony on our team is he speaks and reads fluent German, so he is well-versed when it comes to understanding the language used with BMW engines.
“Every engine has a unique design where something could go wrong that couldn’t have gone wrong in the previous engine. “