Im almost sure Im going to go Corvair..., Engine Swap decisions |
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Im almost sure Im going to go Corvair..., Engine Swap decisions |
ssuperflyoldguy |
May 23 2016, 11:24 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 173 Joined: 15-November 15 From: NorCal - East Bay Baby! Member No.: 19,364 Region Association: None |
Im almost sure Im going to go Corvair 140 swap in a 914... Have done a bunch of searching on here and have to make some decisions. Big fan of Dr Evil, maybe he'll chime in. I like buses too...
Going Corvair wont be difficult for me, had a dozen of them in High School, my buddy I went to college with still considers a Corvair as a must have car (hmmm, Yenko Stinger or 911?) and I have to say it's been TOUGH looking thru all the Corvair Forums and not going on Craigslist to buy one to build a Yenko tribute... Going to restart my clothing business & double up on the Rogaine. So I started to look into freshening the 2.0 I have but without the bus heads and a set of awesome Type4 heads ($$) - Type4 prices were scaring me, 6 cyl Porsche $ scares me. So the easiest cheapest way of HP without cutting up a good car is to go Corvair. I have one final Porsche 6 I'm running down so waiting... But: If anyone has a line on any Corvair reverse rotation stuff, parts, complete engines I'd consider helping you get rid of it. Best case scenario is to find one already built up & just freshen it up - I'll be doing the Fuel Injection kit too. 140 heads, reverse cam & distributer gear. Spoken to Starr Cooke - neat guy but started to send me to the "best" money can buy right off. He's prob right though, I should build a really nice engine if I'm going to do it, I'm thinking a Corvair motor is many $ away from taxing the standard 914 gearbox. |
ssuperflyoldguy |
May 28 2016, 09:40 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 173 Joined: 15-November 15 From: NorCal - East Bay Baby! Member No.: 19,364 Region Association: None |
Going to have to come clean here - have a couple engine swaps happening here -
Classic Mini - has a 3 cyl Suzuki (Chevy Sprint) turbo & 5 spd swap - has FI, 70hp but 100 ftlbs torque. Went real nice before I parked it, clapped out, customized and needs to be moved back towards more stock looking. Classic Mini build in process- Have a B-Series Honda subframe, going to go D series instead - B is too much and D series is smaller. In a small car, 130hp is fine. Have a few Mini's if anyone is into trading for a similar 914 project. Always wanted to build my own FI - Corvair was good place to start as it had carbs and never came w FI.. And real "simple" FI systems exist so that's the way I want to go. Even harder to find Corvair 140 engines than 2.0 914 heads apparently. Guess I'm not trawling the right places. Now that I've been hearing about a few 356's with Corvair engines, guess what I want to look into for my 912? One good reverse rotation fuel inject 140 mule to get things moving |
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