On this episode of Rottler Featured Series, join us at one of America’s premier auto racing engine building, rebuilding, testing, design and development facilities, Ed Pink Racing Engines in Van Nuys, California.

EPRE conducts engine design and development on a large variety of engines. Recent projects include a 2 valve 4 cylinder 2.7-liter methanol fueled racing engine and 4 valve engines developed for off road truck racing.

Other engine projects at EPRE vary from the rebuilding and updating of 900 hp turbocharged race engine for GTP vintage racing, Cosworth DF Formula One and Indy engines, and Cosworth XD Indy engine for vintage racing. They’ve also done the design evaluation of a motorcycle engine and contributed to the development of road racing engines for use in South America.

To get all this work done, EPRE depends in a trio of Rottler machines, including an S7M surfacer (now the S85 series), an F67A CNC (now the F69A), and an EM69HP CNC Engine Machining center. According to head machinist Gianni Jeong, these machines have allowed them to double their weekly output while producing work that meets, and often exceeds, manufacturer specs.

We’re pleased to play our part in this legendary shop’s story!

Rottler Equipment in the Shop

For this episode of the Rottler Featured Series we’re in Kathleen, Georgia to see Brian Anderson owner of AnderFab Machine.

AnderFab is a general purpose and performance machine shop taking on jobs from single cylinder engines all the way up to 959 Pro nitrous motors. One of the secrets to the variety of work this small business handles is its impressive line-up of Rottler equipment.

They put their first machine, a F69 multipurpose machining center, in the shop back in 2021. Since then, they’ve added a H85A vertical hone, the EM69HP engine machining center, a VR12 refacer, and a SG9MTS valve seat and guide machine.

Anderson told us that his “arsenal” of Rottler equipment allows them to be more productive because they can tackle a whole bunch of jobs all at once. And it’s not just the quality of the work the machines do that he likes. “[Rottler’s] support and follow-through were a huge decision maker,” he said.

We asked Chris Barrier, one of AnderFab’s machinists, which machine he felt was the biggest gamer changer and he answered without hesitation, the H85A hone. Because it’s fully automatic, he can set it up and walk away to work on something else while “the hone does its thing.”

High quality work, greater productivity, and happy customers. That’s what we like to hear. Check out their video!

For this episode of Rottler Featured Series, we’re in Springfield, Illinois at Capital City Machine Shop, owned by legendary funny car racer Tim Wilkerson.

Growing up in the 1970’s, Tim loved things fast and loud, and racing became his passion. Not being made of money, he originally started his shop so he could do his own engine work. Eventually though, the hobby became a job and in 1999 he opened Capital City Machine.

These days Capital City is the premier machine shop general automotive, farm & agriculture, marine and performance engine work, drawing business from the entire region between Chicago and St Louis. He’s also still running his nitro funny car team, Tim Wilkerson Racing.

Being a leading engine shop, naturally Capital City Machine is also a great Rottler Manufacturing partner, and has a suite of our equipment helping him work his magic for his customers. Talking to shop manager Jeff Jacobs, we learned that his “team” includes himself and four Rottler machines: an H85AX CNC hone, an SG series seat & guide machine, an EM69 5-axis CNC engine machining center, and an F series multi-purpose CNC machine.

Jacob’s favorite part of his team? Rottler’s “set it and forget it” automation lets him set a job up and walk away. He and his “team” can be doing the work of five guys and he knows they’ll all deliver the precision work Capital City’s customers and Wilkerson’s racing team demand.

Check out the video, and make sure to give Capital City’s website a visit!

(Links to: Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Bonus Reel)

The EM69HP is Rottler’s cylinder head porting and custom block work 5 Axis CNC Machining Center. The EM69HP offers the precision and speed needed to reproduce cylinder heads with exceptional accuracy – with no handwork required.

The EM69HP also has the capability of porting intake manifolds with the same techniques used to port cylinder heads while also performing engine block jobs such as boring, surfacing, lifter boring, line boring, lightening and engraving, plus many additional machining requirements.

You’ve already learned about set up, digitizing ports, and generating tool paths. So, in this bonus installment of the porting series, we’ll show you the entire auto cycle process, from start to finish.

(Links to: Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Bonus Reel)

The EM69HP is Rottler’s cylinder head porting and custom block work 5 Axis CNC Machining Center. The EM69HP offers the precision and speed needed to reproduce cylinder heads with exceptional accuracy – with no handwork required.

The EM69HP also has the capability of porting intake manifolds with the same techniques used to port cylinder heads while also performing engine block jobs such as boring, surfacing, lifter boring, line boring, lightening and engraving, plus many additional machining requirements.

In the fourth and final installment of our porting series, we sit back and enjoy the fruits of our labor. Watch chips fly and see the finished results at the end!

(Links to: Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Bonus Reel)

The EM69HP is Rottler’s cylinder head porting and custom block work 5 Axis CNC Machining Center. The EM69HP offers the precision and speed needed to reproduce cylinder heads with exceptional accuracy – with no handwork required.

The EM69HP also has the capability of porting intake manifolds with the same techniques used to port cylinder heads while also performing engine block jobs such as boring, surfacing, lifter boring, line boring, lightening and engraving, plus many additional machining requirements.

In the third installment of our porting series, Ryan demonstrates the vast capabilities of the proprietary Rottler porting software. Making adjustments to port geometry, calculating port volume, creating dimple toolpaths…. it’s all here! The Rottler porting software gives any user endless capabilities with just a few clicks!

(Links to: Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Bonus Reel)

The EM69HP is Rottler’s cylinder head porting and custom block work 5 Axis CNC Machining Center. The EM69HP offers the precision and speed needed to reproduce cylinder heads with exceptional accuracy – with no handwork required.

The EM69HP also has the capability of porting intake manifolds with the same techniques used to port cylinder heads while also performing engine block jobs such as boring, surfacing, lifter boring, line boring, lightening and engraving, plus many additional machining requirements.

In our second installment to our porting series. Ryan shows us the process of digitizing an LS cylinder head right on the machine! In this video we reveal what makes the EM69HP just so special, the ability to take any port and convert the physical port to a digital model in just a few simple steps!

(Links to: Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Bonus Reel)

The EM69HP is Rottler’s cylinder head porting and custom block work 5 Axis CNC Machining Center. The EM69HP offers the precision and speed needed to reproduce cylinder heads with exceptional accuracy – with no handwork required.

The EM69HP also has the capability of porting intake manifolds with the same techniques used to port cylinder heads while also performing engine block jobs such as boring, surfacing, lifter boring, line boring, lightening and engraving, plus many additional machining requirements.

In this video Ryan walks us through the physical setup for getting a cylinder head ready for digitizing and porting on the machine.

The Rottler EM69HP is Rottler’s premier high performance cylinder head porting and custom block work machining center. Rottlers 4C software allows anyone to reimagine the possibilities of performance-oriented engine work by incorporating on machine Digitizing, CAD, and CAM to reverse engineer and create precise custom billet parts such as this 6061 T6 insert for this Subaru closed deck application.

The Rottler EM69HP is Rottler’s flagship 5-axis machining center. Building on the strong foundation from previous generation porting and block work machines, the EM69HP now incorporates Rottler’s next generation 4C control as well as a newly designed 20,000RPM spindle. This allows the Rottler EM69HP to create race-winning ports faster and with a better finish than the competition.

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