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Re: Corvair Aircooled 6 cyl in a T3
Posted: 12 Dec 2008, 16:11
by ringo
Hee hee - what a great attitude.
At some point i am going to have to own a V8 - its just a question of when and what vehicle. I fancy a lightweight series land rover with the V8 in just for playing around in the mud.
The noise is amazing. I wont say its simplistic - a mate of mine spent a lot of rolling road time getting his V8 set up - but i suppose that was down to his 4 carbs...
I always get the impression that the states is more "Car tune friendly" in that there are a lot more places to get workshop tunes / custom bits at affordable prices. In Nottingham i can find places to do things - its just not that easy to find them.
Anyway, back to work .....
Ringo
Re: Corvair Aircooled 6 cyl in a T3
Posted: 12 Dec 2008, 21:28
by Vanagonman
regurgevole wrote:It's not just a "less powerful version of the 110 motor", it's actually a different engine entirely.
You bought the 145 cu.in. engine block, not the 164 cu.in engine of the 1965 and later Corvairs. The 164 cu.in. engine is superior in every way to the earlier engines.
The shipping costs on that boat anchor are going to kill you.
Seriously dude, you're making a huge mistake. Chalk that £60 up to experience and let it go.
If you are intent on a Corvair repower, enough so as to pay the shipping to the UK, and do all the mods to get it into your van, then you need to buy a 164 cu.in. Corvair engine, either 110 or 140 hp., preferrably the 140 hp (with staked valve seats). They're not extremely expensive, and they come up reasonably often if you look around Corvair clubs & forums in the US and Canada.
Great news!! I had my Corvair friend (the one putting it into the T3) take a look at the engine I bought and this is what he said:
I looked at the auction page. The engine is almost certainly a '64 110hp.
'Looks rough, though - you just never know the actual condition.
Evidence that it is a '64 include generator vs. alternator, magnesium
cooling fan, 'early' shrouding tin, and a dipstick on the differential.
It
is not from a truck, (a good thing) as it has the oil dipstick on the top
shroud and oil filler tube next to the fuel pump. The listed 'YN'
suffix to
the engine number is for a 110hp car.
I'm not sure it is worth the cost to ship the transaxle. If you are going
to
use a Vair transaxle, you will need a diff from an IRS Vair. IRS started in
'65. A '64 is swing-axle rear suspension, so the axle yokes are not
'retained' in the diff like the IRS diffs. (In fact, one of the
swing-axle
yokes is sitting on top next to the carb at the bottom of the picture.)
Also, the trans is a 3-speed, and the diff is probably a 3.27 ratio. Pretty
high gearing for a Vanagon.
You mentioned before the possiblity of using a 914 transaxle - that still
sounds like a great idea, perhaps easier to find in the UK? The
engine-to-transaxle parts seem very available.
He also included two more T3 Corvair pics:
Seems the way to go and keep it Aircooled as well.
