Connecting Rod Manufacturing and Finishing

let's go see all the rods get done with the connecting rod we actually start the operation down the street and that's where our forging so all our raw and finished materials are in the other building and basically we we do some boring processes over there so that we can prepare to put them on the machines over here so these machines are all doing a similar thing we refer to it as profiling which takes the majority of the material off of the connecting rod and gives it the general shape that you're looking for here's one prior to and here's one after so when you hear Ford's drive versus cast Rod when you go to force Rod it starts as one of these slugs well forged Rod versus a Billet Rod too right so the thing that we try to pride ourselves on is the fact that everything we do is forged so we actually get the grain flow to go the way that we want it to go uh Billet Rod has a straight line ring and ours don't so it's a hundred percent machine so when it's done you can't tell the difference between a fill it and a forged Rod but these are like Billet Force rods it's 100 machine support yes and that's different than either one of the other things you've got them combined here yeah so uh that's the way it's always been uh and then we also manufacture aluminum connecting rods now um there is this for like a Pro Stock deal or something oh that's actually an import you got a lot of rods going right now though the the rod side you know as the industry was up and down and you know we were coming back from a pandemic uh we're fortunate enough to be very busy in a nice to have industry right so um we're thriving we're having record months finally it's slowing down a little bit on the Piston side the rod size still pretty hectic I think we're 14 weeks or so for a set of connecting rods and we're down to about five weeks for Pistons right now so oh wow um what are those itty bitty rods for uh it might be for like a Hayabusa like a little motorcycle racing so this is some of the area where the the final boring is done some rods actually get serration on the party line so that they are stuck together and that way some are sleeves some are serrated a variety of different methods that we use we have some reverse entry connecting rods like that where the bolts come in from the top and then the majority of them this is a bullet connecting rod I don't remember if you have these or yours or not I think that's what I will have in the six liter for the Yukon okay yeah so similar…