<VV> Running on 3-Cylinder Vair

[Chris C]

Turn the car upside down and shake, no wait its a vair its already on 
its roof.

Or put your hand over the carb with it running and see if the hand gets 
sucked off.


J R Read_HML wrote:
> You DO know how to clear the offending carb by the roadside, right?
>
> Later, JR
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: <FrankCB at aol.com>
> To: <Sethracer at aol.com>; <jallenm at comcast.net>; 
> <virtualvairs at corvair.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2007 11:17 AM
> Subject: Re: <VV> 3-Cylinder Vair motor
>
>
>>
>> Reminds me of the time many years ago when son Jim  and I decided to 
>> take
>> "Joe Cool" (66 Monza 95hp PG A/C) to a  local autocross.  After the 
>> autocross,
>> the car was hard to start but  we finally got it going to discover 
>> one carb was
>> completely nonfunctional (found  out later that the main jet was 
>> completely
>> blocked with silt).  So we drove  home on the highway using only 3 
>> cylinders.
>> The engine ran relatively  smoothly but with much less power and a 
>> lot more
>> heat.  Fortunately, I had  installed a calibrated aftermarket CHT 
>> gauge and even
>> more fortunately the  pickup sensor was on the side of the 3 firing 
>> cylinders.
>> Whereas the  cruising temp with all 6 firing was around 350 deg.F, 
>> with only
>> 3 firing, it  easily reached 450 and even higher.  We frequently had 
>> to run
>> at lower  speed on the shoulder everytime the temp started to climb 
>> much above
>> 450.   But we made it home safely.  I figure our average A/F ratio 
>> was about
>> 24 to  1.<GGGG>
>>    Frank "EVERY Corvair needs a CHT gauge"  Burkhard
>>