My friends down at Jay Leno’s Big Dog Garage http://www.jaylenosgarage.com/ have been using a FARO six axis laser scanning arm and Autodesk Inventor to rebuild a seriously wicked motor.

They frequently have to build parts for one of a kind collector vehicles in Jay’s collection. With this workflow they can capture geometry of some existing parts with the laser scanning arm and then model and modify the parts in Autodesk Inventor for final machining or print a prototype. The casting forms and core boxes were also modeled in Autodesk Inventor, printed with a Dimension 3-D printer and then finally machined on their CNC mill. 

These photos show what they have been working on, a pair of intake Merlin-Weber manifolds for a 1945 Rolls Royce Merlin Aircraft engine.

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