25 Apr 12 08:15, TOM WALKER wrote to ROY WITT:


 RW>> TW> Particualrlt if workign on a Corvair engine. I had three of
 RW>> those. A
 RW>> TW> 1963 Van, A 1965 Corsa and later I put a corvair engine and
 RW>> automatic
 RW>> TW> transmission in a 1971 VW van.

 RW>> Was Ralph Nader right about those cars? IMNSHO, I thought he was
 RW>> full of crap...

 TW> He basiclly was. Not since a Rear Biased Car handles different then
 TW> one with the engine up front if you got Stupid you could get yourself
 TW> in deep Trouble. But mostly less then some of the other rear engine
 TW> car of that day.

I kind of figured he was. With VW and Porshe being around for a few
decades before the Corvair came along, they certainly didn't have any
problems.

 TW> And once you got the feel of driving thme on a short tight course
 TW> they could embarase many Corvette and Camaro drivers.

I used to pick up and deliver for service a 63 or 64 Spyder convertible
for a customer of the station where I worked part-time. The drive included
a winding road and a wooden bridge crossing over some RR tracks. I enjoyed
the drive to and fro and thought the car was a sweetheart. Of course, it
wasn't mine, so I didn't push it so hard that I would lose control.

At the time I drove a 55 Chevy and they didn't handle very well at all.

 TW>  OF course they left you in the dust if there was much length to the
 TW> straights.

Depending on the driver, of course. I think my 63 Corvette and all of the
Z28s I've owned could handle better than the Corvair.

 RW>> TW> I had a set of Valve covers cut in half for adjusting the valves
 RW>> on TW> those engines.

 RW>> Didn't they have rockers like the V8s, where you could buy a set of
 RW>> spring clips to cover the pushrod oil hole?

 TW> The valve cover solution was far less messy.

Since it was a flat six, I would imagine so. I've thought about doing the
valve cover cut for a V8, but never took the time to do something like
that. The clips make valve adjustments a far less messy job.


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