On this episode of Rottler Featured Series, join us in El Paso, Texas at Mike & Son’s Machine Shop.

Family owned and operated, Mike & Sons is an automotive-specific machine shop, focusing on engine rebuilds for everything from daily grocery getters to classic cars and performance work.

Machinist Chris Palumbo told us that as a family operation, every engine they work on they treat with care as if it were there own personal engine. To get the quality of work they demand, Chris and his father-in-law, Mike Garcia, rely on a quartet of Rottler machines including an SG9 seat & guide machine, an HP6A (precursor to the H85AX) hone, an EM69ATC engine machining center, and a classic Rottler F2.

Chris tells us he needs precision to maintain modern standards and the EM69ATC delivers. It has “endless capabilities,” he said.

Mike backed him up on the quality of the Rottler equipment too. “Once you see the quality of the work the machine turns out… when I saw the first cut Chris made with the [SG9], I said ‘I should have bought this a long time ago,” he said.

If you’re down in El Paso and you need engine work, you can be sure that Mike & Sons will deliver. Check out their story!

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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Episode 18 of the Rottler Featured Series takes us to Brownsburg, Indiana, home of Vance & Hines Motorsports.

We go inside the shop to see how they’re building record-breaking motorcycles, both for Japanese bikes and their newer initiatives for the Harley-Davidson M8 Catapult platform.

There we get an inside look on how their engine builders are using Rottler machines, including the H85A hone, to discover the new performance edge and take the sport to a new level.

If you’re a lover of motorcycle racing, this is the video for you!

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.

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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.

For the 11th episode of the Rottler Featured Series we catch up with Pete Teasdale at Teasdale Engine & Machine service in Jonestown, PA.

With the help of his Rottler equipment, Pete’s utilizing the latest technology to make custom parts and deliver the best results for his customers.

For our 10th episode in the Rottler Featured Series we went to Stone Park, Illinois to see how father and son team Andy and Andrew Frontzak of Engine Rebuilders and Supply are using Rottler machines to help rebuild classic and muscle cars to better than new.

Their shop opened in 1973 and they got their first piece of Rottler equipment—one of our classic green machine boring bars—back in 1983.

Since then they’ve acquired several Rottler machines, including our state-of-the-art H80 series fully automatic hone which Andrew credits for letting a small shop like his do what only bigger shops used to be able to do.

“The Rottler Hone lets us make the most power possible unattended. We just set it up and it does the rest.”

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