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. |
veekry9 |
May 28 2016, 01:40 PM
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OldMember Group: Retired Members Posts: 3,068 Joined: 17-June 13 From: TO Member No.: 16,025 Region Association: Canada |
Not fair,putting a Porsche engine into an American taildragger.
(IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) (Weber IDA3C) manifold,welded,for more power. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/happy11.gif) 3.1L+ Things you might have to do,if you choose to do Corvair,is the undamaging of the boxer six from NY. A 50/50 mix of acetone/auto-trans fluid(rustbuster).Frozen piston rings must be soaked Vertically,for a week. http://www.loumash.com/GS/2010/weber.html How many VW 94mm PnC's would you like sir?I'll take 12,thankyou. http://corvaircenter.com/phorum/read.php?1,340034,340205 Supercooling of the blowdown system would allow modern turbo setups and efi. The amount of air the stock fan can push through is a matter of aerodynamics. Air temperature can be dropped substantially by adiabatic means,(H20 fogging). Ah,the trek into the uncharted waters of beryllium copper head rings and fourbar pressure. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) https://www.google.ca/maps/place/Massena,+N...74.891865?hl=en (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) The W's,WhatWhereWhenWhy,and Women. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/driving-girl.gif) Faster,she said. / |
tomrev |
May 28 2016, 05:49 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 231 Joined: 25-February 14 From: N. Mich. Member No.: 17,037 Region Association: None |
I ended up using the 180HP Corvair turbo bits on the 140HP engine I'd put in my 356A, (cuz I got it without any engine, abandoned in a field for 20 years). With the high comp. 140 engine, it had around 240HP, and would go like stink for a short bit, and then a slow, syncro saving shift, all boost gone, and start over again. The extra weight in back made the handling pretty unsettling, and the first time I met a guy who had a 356, he almost burst into tears when he heard what I had for my power plant. But it was an intro into Porsche's, and a fun project that started the endless line of "this will be the one I keep till I'm 90!"
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