On this Episode of Rottler Featured Series, join us at Heinlein Diesel and Machine in Rogersville, MO where we meet up with owner Tyler Heinlein.

Heinlein’s main focus is working on light duty diesel pickups, doing transmissions, engine repairs and performance upgrades. He started the business back in 2015 as solo operation with a couple of work bays and some basic tools.

These days he’s still a one-man shop, but he’s got a whole team working for him in the form of a trio Rottler machines — and H85 hone, an F69 multi-purpose machining center, and a SG9MTS seat & guide machine.

“I’m not a guy who came from CNC machines, but Rottler makes it easy,” Heinlein said. “I have no problem using the RPath software.”

When it gets down to it, it’s Rottler’s “set it and walk away” automation that’s the game changer. “The H85 hone paid for itself right away. That was real eye opener,” he said. “I’m doing the work of a team while still being one person.”

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Designed for finishing cast iron or bronze inserted lifter bores, the Rottler 4-stone lifter honing mandrel allows Rottler H80 series hones to automate and control lifter hone finishes in a few simple steps.

Eliminate the need for manual honing with one of our kits, saving time and improving overall quality!

Rottler Parts Shown in video

• 514-9V – Honing Mandrel Adaptor
• 514-14-87 – Lifter Honing Mandrel Kit with Stones (New Machines, Post 06/24)
• 514-14-88 – Lifter Honing Mandrel Kit with Stones (Retrofit Machines, Pre 06/24)

For more information, contact:
parts@rottlermfg.com

Email our application experts:

• Scott Rowe – scott@rottlermfg.com
• Ryan Thompson – ryan@rottlermfg.com

For this episode of the Rottler Featured Series we went to Middletown, Rhode Island to visit Toni Marine where they’ve been rebuilding Yamaha / Mercury outboard engines since 1958.

We met with owner Will Correia who told us how they came to exclusively remanufacture Yamaha outboard engines, getting into the engine overhaul business back in the 1990s. They can take an old engine, “basically junk,” in Will’s words, and make it like new again, fully warrantied and ready to run. Will explained to us that most people just want to sell an outboard boat owner a new engine, which can cost $30,000 or more. Remanufacturing an old engine and brining it back to new condition is a great costs savings for his customers.

One of the big reasons for Toni Marine’s success is that they only use the best tooling and equipment, which includes half a dozen Rottler engine rebuilding machines. In Will’s words, “if you’re going to buy something, buy the best,” and that means Rottler.

The newest piece of Rottler equipment on the shop floor is an H8A automatic hone, which Will refers to as a “robot employee” because it runs itself and delivers a better finish than any human can. He told us he was worried at first about these machines being too complicated to run, but he’s had no issues. “Anyone can learn to run one in 20 minutes,” he said. “I’m 70 years old, and I can run [a Rottler] machine while I’m on the phone. It’s not an exaggeration, it’s that good,” he added.

We love to hear words like that from our customers, because it motivates our team to keep innovating and building the best engine-focused CNC machines in the industry.
Check out Toni Marine’s story in the video, and, if you’re in the market for the best-rebuilt outboard motor money can buy, give their website a visit!

For this week’s episode of the Rottler Featured Series we traveled up to Viola, Wisconsin, home of one of America’s best V-Twin parts and engine builders, S&S Cycle.

There with get a tour of the facility from S&S’s Manufacturing Engineering Manager, Dennis Kramer, and get an insider’s look at the people and machines behind so many speed records on the salt flats and on the track.

S&S prides itself on building high horsepower engines that have the durability to live on the street as well as the track, and naturally they have Rottler equipment in the shop to help them do it. We’re proud to see the Rottler red and black stripes of our H85AXY automatic hone and SG10XY seat and guide machines in operation, helping the team at S&S Cycle develop the world’s best V-Twin engines.

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This week on the Rottler Featured Series we travel to Markesan, Wisconsin to see Casey Wegner at Wegner Automotive.

Wegner’s shop has been around since his dad founded the business in 1975 and made his name building NASCAR engines for Bobby and Davey Allison. Since then they have built hundreds of race-winning engines for racers of all types — circle, dirt, and strip.

One of the secrets to Wegner’s success is investing in “a ton of research and development” to see how new finishes affect the engine’s performance. We’re pleased to note that our Rottler H85AX vertical automatic hone plays a big part in helping Wegner develop those cylinder finishes and deliver a better product to his customers.

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For episode 19 of the Rottler Featured Series, we’re in Piney Flats, Tennessee, home of Straub Technologies.

There we catch up with Chris Straub & company to see how he and his people use their suite of Rottler Machinery (they have one of every machine we make!) to keep the business running even when the lights are off.

Chris and his four guys leverage Rottler’s automation features—set it and forget it—to do the work of 12 people.

The machines you’ll see in the video include:

• F69 – Programmable Automatic Machining Center
• EM69HP – CNC Machining Center
• SG9MTS – Seat & Guide Machine
• H85AXY – Automatic Vertical Honing Machine

For episode 17 of the Rottler Featured Series we’re off to Troy, Missouri to see Joe Creason of Creason Racing Engines. Joe gives us a tour of the shop where he builds championship-winning engines for everything from drag and truck pulls to dirt track racing.

While we’re there we also get to see Joe’s collection of Rottler equipment including his F69 machining center, his S80 surfacer and SG seat & guide machine, as well as his shiny, new H85AX hone.

Joe also gives us a glimpse of his Engine Master-winning engine from 2017, which he built entirely with Rottler equipment.

Ask Joe why he relies on Rottler equipment and he’ll tell you, he’s got a production mindset and that means time is money. With Rottler in his shop he has the confidence that not a minute or dollar will be wasted.

Check out his video!

For the 16th episode in our Rottler Featured Series we traveled to Lemont, Illinois to see Irek Panek and Pat Gruszka at Green APU and learn how they’re leveraging Rottler machinery like our H85AXY hone to help their business thrive.

Green APU is best known for building auxiliary power units and providing diesel rebuild services for the commercial truck industry. But they also have Rally team racing currently racing on the Nitrocross circuit.

The company is dedicated to bringing superior products to market, whether that’s keeping trucks on the road for a million miles or more, or rally cars off the road and winning races.

Check their video out!

For episode 15 of the Rottler Featured Series we went to Moorseville, NC to see our old friend (and NHRA legend) Pat Musi of Pat Musi Racing Engines.

Pat talked about his 50 years in racing, and the multiple championships his engines have won. These days Pat’s all about Nitrous Pro Mod and he’s proud to say that he has more than 180 of his engines around the world.

One of the other things Pat is proud of is his relationship with Rottler Manufacturing and how our expertise and equipment (especially the H85AXY hone) have been a game change for him and Pat Musi Racing Engines. (He even said “we don’t just talk a good game, we prove it!”)

We’re equally proud of Musi’s accomplishments and are pleased to have him as part of our engine builder innovation program!

Check out the video abouve! And if you want a deeper dive in Musi and his nitrous magic, make sure to check out the interview he did for the Engine Performance Expo a few years back.

Honing a Subaru block on the fully automated Rottler H85AXY.