Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 14:48:20 -0500
Reply-To: wilden1@juno.com
Sender: Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From: Stan Wilder <wilden1@juno.com>
Subject: Re: Corvair and Porsche 914 Engines (Was: Towing!!!)
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If you use the corvair drive train and a smallblock chevy you can Call
Harvey Crane at Crane cams, he'll grind you a backwards cam and you'll be
in business. We built one of these for Sears to run in Baha about fifteen
years ago. He's already got the profile and can furnish backwards
distributor grears. The starter also has to turn backwards (no great
feat, any good generator shop can make that happen)
Corvair isn't the way for more HP. I'd shoot for the little 3.6 Buick,
Olds, Chevy or Cadillac V6 and use their automatic tranny. And the
trannys suck.
I've had Corvairs (1962 4 carb 180 HP, 1965 two carb 110 Hp. 1966 Turbo
180 HP.) and living with that one fanbelt as the weakest link is like
russian roulette. You can't turn them 5000 rpm or you shuck your belt and
very soon blow an engine.
On Wed, 16 May 2001 13:44:47 -0400 Jay L Snyder
<Jay.L.Snyder@usa.dupont.com> writes:
> The beauty of the Corvair conversion (at least in the buses) was that
> you
> used the entire Corvair drivetrain. I have seen V-8s run through
> these
> transaxles. They were made for Corvair trucks until '65. Then they
> beefed
> them up even more in '66 using off the shelf GM tranny parts. If I
> had an
> air-cooled Vanagon, it would be Corvair powered!
>
>
>
>
> Larry Hamm <ldhamm@xmission.com> on 05/16/2001 01:20:55 PM
>
> Please respond to Larry Hamm <ldhamm@xmission.com>
>
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> cc: (bcc: Jay L Snyder/AE/DuPont)
> Subject: Re: Corvair and Porsche 914 Engines (Was: Towing!!!)
>
>
>
>
> '80 Westy Pokey wrote:
> >
> > The Brooklands Volkswagen Bus-Camper-Van Performance Portfolio
> 1968-1979
> has an article that originally appeared in the February 1973 issue
> of
> "PV4". That details several engine swaps for the bay window bus.
> There are
> a ton of engine swap possibilities but the Corvair and 914 engines
> wouldn't
> require radiator work.
> Keep in mind that the Corvair crank turns in the wrong direction, so
> that little fact has to be dealt with. Unless you like having four
> reverse gears and one forward!
> Larry
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