<VV> Special Corvair Event

[Wade Halsey]

Actually, engines are not the "hard to find" part of a decent Corvair. If you find a decent 
body, mechanical parts are much easier to come by. The aircraft builders are mostly interested 
in the block, crank, and heads from 1966-67 110 engines. They have a "formula" list of parts and 
procedures to build tested and reliable engines suitable for aircraft. For the most part, they 
don't use starters, fuel system, cooling system, exhaust system, camshaft, flywheel, harmonic 
balancer etc etc from the core engines they buy. All those used parts are still available to the 
Corvair car hobby. I think we can afford to share a few 110 cores with these guys. They support 
our vendors too. I'm  looking forward to their fly-in in June.


Wade

Sarah wrote:
 >
 > Mike,
 > I think you missed the other part of my email.  These pilots are now seriously
 > interested in purchasing Corvairs to drive.  A huge push is being driven by
 > William Wynn to encourage the pilots as to the attributes of owning a Corvair.
 > William has successfully recruited many new people into the Corvair hobby.
 >>------------------------------


mhicks130 at cox.net wrote:
> No, I didn't miss that part.  I was just expressing my feelings on the airplane guys taking "our" engines.
> 
> I think it's a great idea to encourage these hooligans to drive Corvairs.  They certainly understand the engines which I think is a necessity if you want to own a Corvair.  It might also create some sympathy on their part concerning my issue of keeping Corvair parts for use on Corvair cars.


> mike