Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2006 13:16:46 -0500
Reply-To: Max Wellhouse <maxjoyce@IPA.NET>
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From: Max Wellhouse <maxjoyce@IPA.NET>
Subject: WasRe: [SPAM] Re: vanagon engine conversions vs rebuilt 1.9
waterboxer Now Corvair Jugs!!
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The first high performance VW I ever owned was a 1960 black beetle
that a local VW mechanic reamed out the block(this was back in the
late 60's when Okrasa was hard to find and expensive to boot) and
fitted corvair jugs and pistons and also a cobled up intake manifold
to single port heads sporting an old 2 bbl Rochester carburator. It
had a lot more than 40 horsepower, but I don't remember the engine's
demise if it ever did blow up.A Within a year or two, I had
purchased the state's first Baja Bug kit on the car and eventually
installed a Porsche Super 90 engine in there. Thata wasa spicey a
meataballa!!! I also had a friend in high school that put a 110
Corvair in his old splittie bus and he'd out torque me for a shift or
two, but not even the air cooled 6 could flatten that flat front of
the bus and I'd eventually pull away from him. With a tailwind once,
I had the speedo all the way around to the zero peg. When I
discovered that it took two zip codes to stop after that, I quit
testing top speed!! Big Mickey Thompson wide ovals(8x15" wheels)
on the back to help with the gearing and a 140# lead pipe bar on the
front for some traction control in the autocross events.
My splittie friend also had trouble keeping his running as it liked
to throw that long cooling fan belt at the most inopportune times.,.
DM&FS
"reminiscing folks I don't know...granted, it takes longer..." Steven Wright
t 09:46 AM 9/16/2006, Marion Lathem wrote:
>UH... don't mean to be a wet blanket on the Carvair engine...BUT..my folks
>had a Carvair, it was always broke down. When I got out of the Navy, I went
>to work in a big mechanic shop. There was this old fellow that worked on
>Volkswagens, Carvairs, anything basically. One day, he had a Carvair
>engine torn down, and as I looked at all the parts. he said, don't look
>like an engine does it..? He then showed me a rod, wrist pin and rod cap of
>both the Carvair and the Volkswagen. The Volkswagen's endcap to the rod,
>was almost invisible it was machined so close. The Carvair rod and end cap
>seam was clearly visible. He told me, pointing to the carvair engine,
>that's the best Detroit could do, trying to copy a Volkswagen. It clearly
>is a poor job. We had a police officer that drove a Carvair Spyder, he had
>his car in every week being worked on... it just could not hold up to
>whatever he did to it. I want to say Spyder Monza.. but I'm not sure that's
>correct.? I am new to Volkswagens, but it was really clear to me
>Volkwagen, clearly had the better machined engines back then.
>Lyle Lathem
>Vanagon GL
>Quinlan, TX
>
>
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