<VV> Re: Prototype Engine

[vairologist@juno.com]

> From: Wrsssatty@aol.com
> Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2004 17:03:07 EST
> Subject: Re: <VV> prototype engine on eBay

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> I would be interested in knowing several things about the engine 
> which the article probably answers such as what advantages it posed
over the 
> original Corvair engine and why it was seemingly abandoned as the next 
> generation Corvair engine in favor of the overhead cam design which GM
was considering 
> just before pulling the plug on the Corvair project.
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Smitty says:  Won't be able to look it up til Sun at the earliest.  Maybe
someone else will tell you what Communique it was in.  Just from memory
though, two of the problems were that it :rang like a bell" at certain
engine speeds, and that they had awful thermal stress and distortion
problems with the cyls and the pushrod cavitys in the same castings.
        I personally don't think the museum owns an example of that
engine, and running or not, it would be a crime for it to end up in the
hands of an individual.  Last I heard they had contacted some AH who had
one and he was trying to hold the CPF up for excessive bucks to part with
it.