I happen to have an old copy of Foreign Car Digest which includes an article
regarding the installation of a Corvair engine into a bus. The magazine is
guaranteed to be '60-'65. Those are the only years that I have of this pub.
I will look tonight and see if it reveals some insight. Hold your thumbs
until then.
rvb\

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>>At this point, I'm thinking. This is actually the second week it's
>>been in the paper; he didn't think it would be selling soon. I'll
>>prolly take a look and then pass on it (and pass his # on), I dunno.
>>Apparently it's got the bus tranny, but with the ring gear flipped to
>>make it go backwards for the corvair engine.  Any feedback on how hard
>>that would be to undo?
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>I had the impression that there are only two reasons someone would
>reverse the ring gear in a VW tranny (my knowledge on this is sufficient
>only to be dangerous, please correct me if I'm wrong):
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>1.) If someone is putting a swingaxle bus tranny in a swingaxle bug,
>which doesn't use the bus reduction gears at the wheels;
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>2.) If someone is building a midengine car with the engine in front of
>the rear axle and turned around.
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>Doesn't the Corvair engine rotate the same direction as a VW engine,
>i.e. clockwise as seen from behind the car? If so, this single cab
>probably doesn't have the ring gear flipped.
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>Anybody have more complete knowledge on this (wouldn't be hard!)?
>It would be nice to get a definite word on this, from someone who's been
>there and done it.
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> -Steve Maher   smaher@gi.com   '71 VW Transporter w/4 cyls, but I can 
>dream...
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