I have owned both a 110hp 65 Corvair with dual carbs and a 66 Turbo
Charged Corvair, they both had special may-pop engines that self
destructed at about 6100 rpms.
I was never impressed by Corvair Performance.
They had the same cylinder head problems as VW air cooled .............
dropped the seats or burnt the valves.

Stan Wilder

On Thu, 12 Dec 2002 15:20:28 -0800 Jeffrey Schwaia <jeff@TSSGI.COM>
writes:
> How many RPMs is he pulling when he goes 100MPH?
>
> When I do 75MPH in any of my Vanagons, the engine is turning over
> 4000RPMs.
> Without a 5 speed, or a completely different tranny, wouldn't your
> top speed
> be limited by the number of RPMs the engine can turn?
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM]On
> Behalf
> Of Justin M. Mayrand
> Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2002 1:29 PM
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject: Re: air cooled engine alternatives
>
>
> A friend of mine has a Corvair 6 in his bus - that thing flies, and
> will top
> 100MPH, though doing so will scare you half to death.   ...JMM
>
>
> --
>
> Justin M. Mayrand
> 1980 Westy "SuperVan"
>
>
> > The Road Cow is a late bus ............... it has a Toyota engine
> in it.
> > Search "road cow" in the archives I'm sure you'll find a link to
> > pictures.
> > Road Cow is currently owned by Britt Granis ................. he's
> been
> > abusing it pretty bad pulling busses from West to East coast.
> > Someone may have cloned it.
> >
> > Stan Wilder
> >
> > On Sun, 8 Dec 2002 13:07:34 -0700 Clay Moore
> <cmoore@CYBERPORT.COM>
> > writes:
> >> While driving a Ryder truck on I-40 west of flagstaff in late
> summer
> >> steadily climbing a very long grade, and doing about 65 mph.
> Two
> >> white
> >> Bay window style Westfalias passed me, obviously loaded and
> really
> >> going, they must have been doing 80.  I was hoping they would
> pull
> >> over
> >> so i could find out how they were doing and take a closer look,
> but
> >> i
> >> never managed to catch them.  I assumed they must have had some
> kind
> >> of
> >> engine other than the air cooled version of that era.  Since
> there
> >> are
> >> inline engine alternative's for the water cooled vanagons, what
> >> engine
> >> alternatives are available for that era westfalias ... if any ?
> Or
> >> were
> >> they possibly running really tricked out air cooled engines ?
> >>
> >>
> >
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