<VV> Wet Dream engine

[martins@efn.org]

Bob Helt wrote an article in the Communique a few years back (20?) about a
gentleman who fabricated custom water cooled heads which he made for his
Corvair using the furnace brazing method of joining sheet metal stampings.
 A lot of custom work, but it can be done.  One benefit to this method of
head construction (according to the article) was the elimination of hot
spots in the combustion chamber, due to the equal thickness of the
materials used.

Marty Scarr


Seth wrote:
> There has been a lot of discussion about the heat problems of the Corvair
> Motor. I remember an article in an engineering magazine at least 30 years
> ago about a fellow that welded appropriate metal to the Corvair head and
> changed it to water cooling. If this were accomplished, the cooling fan 
> air could be used to cool the cylinders only.