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!

On episode 21 of the Rottler Featured Series we went to Mullins Race Engines in Mt Olive, Illinois.

There we met with owner Chase Mullins to get a tour and see how he uses Rottler machines to build 7-to-8 race winning engines a week.

Mullins has been a Rottler customer since the 1990s and currently employs two F69As, two S80 series surfacers, an H85A hone, and a spanking new SG series seat and guide machine.

With his Rottler equipment Mullins’ shop not only builds winning engines, but also CNCs custom parts with the speed and precision that makes the shop a leader in North America.

Check out the video!

Ryan shows us how to set up and operate the SG10XY in this instructional video series. In this installment, Ryan walks us through intake guide locations, feeds &speeds and more. Thanks for watching and enjoy!

This is part 2 of a 3-part series. Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3.

Ryan shows us how to set up and operate the SG10XY in this instructional video series. In this installment, Ryan walks us through intake guide locations, feeds &speeds and more. Thanks for watching and enjoy!

This is part 2 of a 3-part series. Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3.

Ryan shows us how to setup and operate the SG10XY in this instructional video series. Ryan explains setup, selecting fixturing and much more in this the first of three installments. Thanks for watching and enjoy!

This is part 2 of a 3-part series. Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3.

Rottler CNC machining equipment allows one operator the ability to run 3 machines simultaneously. Efficient fixture designs allow fast and precise locating of cylinder heads, resulting in a finished cylinder head every 3 minutes! One operator can produce up to 20 finished heads per hour!

Machines in this video:

• S86A – Surfacing Machine (Center)
• SG10XY – Hole to Hole Automatic Seat and Guide Machine (Left & Right)