R&R Racing Products is a Family Name You Can Trust

Starting in 1982, Lester Riechers & Mike Riechers first opened as a general machine shop. In 1985, R&R Machine Shop added an automotive machine shop that transitioned into manufacturing specialty racing parts, including R&R Racing Products now famous for their Pro-series billet connecting rods. By 1995, R&R's connecting rod business took over and the general and automotive portion of the machine shop was downsized. R&R began manufacturing oil pumps in 1999 and billet steel connecting rods in 2005. 

Mike's interest in racing began with a small-block Chevy powered '77 Vega seen regularly at the local strip. In 1986 Mike met his future wife Julie and they built a blown gas '71 Chevelle. In 1988, Mike married Julie and in 1992, they started 1/4 mile drag boat racing, winning the championship title in 1997, 1998, and 1999 leading to his NDBA Driver of the Year in 1999. Mike retired from boat racing to let his wife, Jules, take a stab at racing. Julie Riechers started racing in 2001 in IHRA national events in Lenco Quick 8 portion of Top Dragster. She won one first place and runner up three other races her first year, then setting the track record at Bunker Hill, IN in 2002 with a 3.98 1/8" mile pass. Julie ran with Pro-Top Outlaws and finished 5th overall in points in 2002 and finished 2nd overall in points the following year in 2003. In 2004, Mike built and Julie began racing their '68 Camaro Pro-Mod blown alcohol drag car at the AMS Staff Leasing Pro Mod NHRA Series. This heritage of racing and performance is second only to the passion they bring to their business founded on the family love for speed.

With names like Larry and Mick Snyder, Dave Hirata, Brent Rau, Mike Janis, Mike Stawicki, Tom Tormoehlen, TFS Performance, TTS, Magnus Motorsports, Oddy's, Muscle Motors, Jan-Cen Racing Engines, Euro eXport, and Finish-line Motorsports under the R&R flag, it's more than likely someone you know or race against runs R&R billet aluminum or steel connecting rods and billet oil pumps that can be found in top-performing engines and race cars around the world.

Now it's your turn to join the ranks of the best!

Custom Steel and Aluminum Connecting Rods are our Specialty!

For more than a decade, R&R Racing Products and Machine Shop Inc. has been manufacturing the highest quality precision engineered billet race components, catering to the racing community, manufacturing a wide range of products from their Pro-series aluminum and steel connecting rods to their dry sump oil pumps.

While other manufacturers attempt to dominate the market by mass producing their rods and selling them at cutthroat prices, R&R has taken a different approach. R&R Racing Products is dedicated to continuously improving its connecting rods and other products by actively seeking out new technologies, processes, and stronger materials, thereby standing up to their promise of exceeding and outperforming the competition time and time again. R&R's exclusive materials and manufacturing processes allow for an almost infinite  flexibility in making custom steel and aluminum connecting rods.

R&R places the utmost importance in ensuring its products are the best while providing custom connecting rods at little or no cost above that of their competitor's one size fits all or "off-the-shelf" product.

Whether considering R&R's billet aluminum or steel connecting rods, R&R has manufactured thousands of sets of connecting rods for hundreds of different engines over the years, so it's a good chance they've already done it. That includes steel and aluminum rods for Ford, Chevy, BMW, Mercedes, Jaguar, Aston Martin, Honda, Mazda, Mitsubishi, Subaru, Nissan, Kia, Hyundai, Toyota, Volkswagen, Porsche, as well as for numerous motorcycle, diesel, exotic, and vintage motors.

Although it's rare to find a rod that they have not done, if new to R&R, just send in a sample rod and R&R will take it from there, engineering a connecting rod that is correct the application.

R&R Racing Products also make custom performance parts!

For more than a decade, R&R Racing Products and Machine Shop Inc. has been has also manufactured many high end private label products for many companies in the United States and Worldwide. Here are just some of the examples of products we currently make: