Page 8 - 2016 Healey Performance Catalogue

8 Manufacturing quality control that maintains performance As each year progresses, new Our computer aided design capability challenges arise and Denis Welch has significantly increased and become Motorsport have recognised the need to ever more sophisticated. Recently we have the ability to consistently have acquired a 3-D printer to model manufacture, high quality engineered components and prefit them onto cars products, in ever increasing numbers. prior to manufacture, this is also useful We have invested heavily in our in developing patterns for castings so machining equipment to facilitate this. we can be assured that the quality is Our factory has a fully equipped exactly as we want. machine shop with crack detecting, This has been assisted by our new pressure testing, precision and CNC CNC machining centre that machines lathes, folding and pressing equipment complex components at up to 12,000 and a fabrication shop, as well as rpm with a huge array of specialist computer - controlled millers. tools, to make complicated components such as cylinder heads and porting systems more consistently than ever before. We can match combustion chambers and ports to high levels of precision. This makes sure that the components are exactly to specification and do not vary from one batch to the next. Jeremy Welch and Martyn Corfield discuss CAD drawings for Endurance car components. Photo: Paul Hardiman