

| Subject: | Re: Comments on Splittie (hp... Corvair) |
| From: | Andrew Grebneff |
| Date: | Sat, 14 Sep 2002 21:30:55 +1200 |
>>What flat-6 is only 110hp? Corvair? > >Yep. Realistically that's more like 98 HP as the Corvair figures were from >an engine with a fan, etc. > >The Corvair guys are building very reliable engines in the 150 HP range >with modern fuel injection and minor things like exhaust and head massaging. They'd need a LOT of that. My Corvair engine's exhaust ports were too small to fit a finger right into! >Not a popular engine some folks but not worse than the aircooled VW engines. From all I hear they are pretty reliable. APART from that idiot fanbelt run! I suggest a bevel drive there to stop it throwing belts and cooking the lump. -- Andrew Grebneff 165 Evans St, Dunedin 9001, New Zealand <andrew.grebneff@stonebow.otago.ac.nz> Seashell, Macintosh, VW/Toyota van nut
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