<VV> Limited Corvair Content

[Sethracer at aol.com]

In a message dated 10/30/2007 6:32:11 PM Pacific Daylight Time, 
corvair2 at earthlink.net writes:

You would think they could find a steering rack from somewhere that would fit?


http://www.duemotori.com/news/auto_news/19729_SEMA_2007_34_Chevrolet_Coupe_E85
.php


http://www.channel4.com/4car/news/news-story.jsp?news_id=16629

What the heck is a reverse steering rack anyway?

Regards, Garth

Okay - They really meant a reversed Corvair box. The hotrodders that stripped 
all of the 60-63 Corvair aluminum steering boxes out of the junkyards in the 
late 60's were using them to build the low-budget T-bucket roadsters from 
available kits. The kit told them how to take the Corvair box apart, drill a hole 
in the adjuster nut, and run the input shaft out the "wrong" end of the box - 
oh yeah, plug up the original inlet point. These boxes were used with 
old-style linkage to provide a cheap steering assembly. The reason Flaming River 
builds the new Corvair boxes today is really because those rodders wore out those 
original Corvair boxes and needed replacements. Being of the "old-school", they 
didn't want to convert to Rack & Pinion, they wanted to retain the old look. 
As the boxes were going into design, I contacted Flaming River (at an earlier 
SEMA or PRI show) and convinced them that there was a market for the "Corvair" 
Corvair box as well, especially if they built the fast-ratio version. Their 
blank look told me that they didn't even know there was a fast ratio box. I 
sent them a fast-ratio box (That shipment was insured!) and they brought it into 
production. I wonder if Chevy reversed an original Corvair box, or just bought 
the current Flaming River part? I will check tomorrow at the GM Performance 
section of the show. - Seth Emerson



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