Rebuilding Retard? Re: <VV> Communique back issue 7/84

[FrankCB at aol.com]

Mike,
    By the time you pay for the cost of rebuilding your  stock retard unit, 
why not just replace it with a Dale vacuum advance/pressure  retard unit?  One 
reason the turbo Corvairs are sluggish in normal street  driving and give such 
poor gas mileage is the lack of vacuum advance.  They  are the ONLY Corvairs 
that lack vacuum advance!  If you install vacuum  advance on your distributor, 
and make provision for pressure retard as  well, you'll get a Corvair that 
performs more like UN-turboed Corvair before the  boost comes up and still can 
function well when it's boosted.  See further  details on how to do this in the 
Turbocharging chapter in the Corvair Basics  Manual.  When I did this on my 
180 that was being driven daily to work, not  only did the part throttle 
acceleration and throttle response both improve, but  also the gas mileage went up 
by over 20%.  Talk about having your cake and  eating it too!
    Frank "try it you'll like it" Burkhard
 
 
In a message dated 2/20/2007 1:15:14 AM Eastern Standard Time,  
corsa at defiancestudios.com writes:

D'oh!

Well, I found a used one in good condition, and I can send  my old one to Dale
Mfg to rebuild over the summer so I have a spare.   If I didn't find this used
one, I would have been stuck until summer.   A good reason to find out how
difficult it would be to rebuild  myself.


Mike
Vegas Vairs - CORSA 891
65 Corsa  Turbo



Quoting Western Canada CORSA  <westerncanadacorsa at shaw.ca>:

> Mike,
> 
> I  pulled my copy out, I was going to scan the tip and email it to you.
>  However, it's just a single paragraph advising people not to throw  broken
> units out, that they can be rebuilt, it doesn't say HOW it can  be rebuilt.
> The tip was written by David Langsather, guess where you  go next?<g>
> 
> Regards,




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