For this episode of Rottler Featured Series we go to Bolivar, Tennessee, home of Choate Engineering Performance; one of North America’s leading specialists in diesel engine performance, parts, and remanufacturing.

Over the past decade, Choate has made a name for itself taking factory diesel engines – Cummins, Powerstroke, Duramax, you name it – and re-building them to run longer and perform better than when they first rolled off the factory floor. As part of that dedication to durability and performance, the company not only builds better diesels, but manufactures its own engine parts, making it one of the most respected and successful diesel specialists in the country. (They build over 500 diesels a year!)

Naturally, Choate is a big Rottler customer, and their facility floor features a full suite of our CNC equipment including seat & guide machines, hones, engine centers, and multi-purpose machining centers. As Choate & company note, one of the main advantages of standardizing on Rottler engine building equipment is every machine in the line-up uses the same interface, so once a team member is trained on one machine, he’s trained on all of them — a huge time and money saver. (It doesn’t hurt that one guy can manage multiple machines simultaneously either!)

Not content to rest with past success, Choate is now expanding into the high horsepower and heavy-duty diesels used in mining, oil and gas, and marine applications. As a result, there’s a new Rottler EM104 machining center on the shop floor giving them the ability to re-man the big diesels like 3516 Caterpillars, Waukeshas, AMDs, and MTUs, with the same speed, performance and precision Choate delivers in its on-highway diesel rebuilds.

We’re proud of Rottler’s partnership with Choate Performance Engineering and looking forward to many more years of helping deliver new quality standards in diesel performance and parts manufacturing.