<VV> Rebuild II

[Roger Gault]

He is a very nice man to come over and help you.
Other than that....maybe too much MEK and Acetone used for cleaning all
those Porsche parts.

I straighten the fins with a screwdriver.

Roger

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Stephen Upham" <contactsmu at sbcglobal.net>
To: <virtualvairs at corvair.org>
Sent: Sunday, November 13, 2005 5:03 PM
Subject: <VV> Rebuild II


> I got my engine back home Monday last after replacing a rod bearing
> that went in incorrectly and putting the driver's side head back on.
> When I got it home, I was faced with the task of lifting the engine out
> of the Durango.  After failing to secure my brothers-in-law, my wife
> remembered that the neighbor across the street owed me a favor from the
> time that I helped him lift a bookcase that he had built from his
> pickup bed into his house.
> He told me that he had worked on Corvairs back in the early 70's while
> in the employ of a Porche repair shop.  I don't pretend to know 5% of
> Corvair mechanics and or history, by memory, even though we've had
> Corvairs in our family for 38 of the 45 year history of the line, I've
> rebuilt my engine going on twice, and have read Tony's book front to
> back.
>
> Here are some things he said to me which I would love to hear opinions
> on:
>
> Don't reuse the cylinder head studs.  They deteriorate with age and
> reuse.  Install new ones and use "head savers" which he described as an
> insert in the heads in which the new studs would be secured to, or
> "you'll be sorry".
>
> He tapped with his finger on the studs of the side that does not have
> the head attached, listening to the sound like a tuning fork.  He said
> he could tell the condition of the stud by the resonance, or lack
> thereof, of the stud.  He said that the Porche mechanics would never
> reuse a stud after a tear-down.
>
> He stated that GM licensed the design of the Corvair engine from
> Porche. ( The only reference to this in Tony's book is on page 13 "But
> the test cars on the road in early 1958 were mostly Porsches with
> prototype drive trains.  'Mostly Porsches' may be just a euphemism
> since they only looked like Porsches to the casual observer.  The
> wheels and tread widths were not Porsche, and the whole rear end was
> not Porsche.  Nor, for that matter was the front suspension a Porsche
> suspension.")
>
> P.S. What is the best method to separate fins on the heads that have
> been mashed together.  (That way when the original mechanic purchased
> it for me for rebuild #1.)
>
> Stephen Upham
> Dallas, Texas
> Corvairium II
>
> Mid prod. #18732 -1965 Monza sedan 110 (block together, pistons and
> cylinders, and one head mounted [both now deflashed] assembled and
> mounted)
> Sierra Tan, originally (currently Copper) - Saddle, zero rust, PG, A/C,
> original AM/FM, clock, tint, oil bath air filter, vertical bumper
> guards, w/ 77K (and continuing to hold)
> (Still in group red, light at the end of the tunnel : I
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