[V8Vairs] Perfect Engine for V-8 Corvair

[ricknorris at suddenlink.net]

My technique was to get it moving before I "mashed on it" as the truckers say.
I never had any trouble from the tranny, a 66 model with double close gears or the diff, a CIDCO 3:27 unit. My 350 dyno'ed at 340 HP.
--
Rick Norris
#36 Sunoco Corvair
www.corvairalley.com 

---- "Thomas wrote: 
> My thinking is with torque and horsepower being developed at higher RPM,
> upshifts have to be quicker to reduce the RPM drop between shifts. This
> is because the engine would have less power to accelerate if the RPM is
> allowed to drop too low. This quick shifting is hard on the transaxle.
> 
> With more torque, shifts can be more leisurely since the engine would
> have enough torque to pull when the RPM drops.
> 
> The transaxle is stressed less by steady application of power than by
> the shock of rapid shifts. Again I offer Mike Levine's pure
> Crown/Corvair transaxle as empirical proof. His engine makes lots of
> torque and his transaxle lasts and lasts (less one recent bearing
> failure not related to the engine output).
> 
> 
> 
> Bob Thomas 68 Monza
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