"BME" Bill Miller Engineering Connecting Rods

BME is a company with a short name that, though, means much: winning performance, exceptional quality, cutting-edge technology, etc. For drag race winners this name means just one thing – the first place in such global championships as NASCAR racing and NHRA nitro class drag racing. Gary Scelzi is the only drag racer to win championships in all four NHRA blown-alcohol and blown-fuel classes. The secret can be found inside Scelzi’s dragsters: there are Bill Miller forged aluminum rods installed.

What makes BME ahead of their numerous competitors? The answer is quite simple – Bill Miller Engineering is entirely committed to racers, giving them top-quality engine components. First Bill Miller rods saw the world over 40 years ago and were known as Ansen-s aluminum connecting rods because of the place Miller worked at that time (Ansen Automative Engineering). Next new and improved products were manufactured in 1975 in a tiny 1,200 sq. ft. facility located in California; this time the components were known as BME rods that became the standard by which other aluminum rods are measured.

Today Bill Miller Engineering holds a 20,000 sq. ft. facility loaded with the most innovative machinery, including Haas and Okuma CNC Machining Centers and Ikegai CNC Turning Centers. In this large factory area quality connecting rods are produced to give racers reliability and performance assurance. Parts are made of the unique aluminum alloy for longer lifespan and higher strength. It is safe to say that BME is the fantastic American business success story that started a generation ago with just one industrious person’s idea how top-quality connecting rods for drag race cars should be made. Nowadays, Bill Miller rods continue to lead the market and remain the most stout aluminum rods that money can buy.