automotive history was non-existent, and only a few people now have the traditional manufacturing skills to put it back together. This however caught the attention of motorcar engineer Grant Cowie, who explored a number of new ways to reconstruct its complicated 16-valve engine.
Commenting on his effort to restore the Delage Type-S, Cowie said that while he knew how to use the traditional method that involved creating a wooden pattern, it would have been too expensive and might have taken more than one attempt to put back together.
Cowie proposed the idea of using the digital technology to clone the engine’s original block, which he thought as the most efficient and cost effective way to get it back on wheels. However, a repair of such a scale has never been done before.
To navigate the problem, Cowie and his team used powerful lasers to scan the old engine block. This allowed them to save months of work and even thousands of hours of pattern making, which was completed in just few days’ time.
The data gathered from the laser scan was then used to create a 3D-printed mould, which was finally completed using manual machines.
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