<VV> It's Alive - 1966 500

[Ron]

That's a lot of work accomplished in only four weeks!
Ronh

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Geoffrey Johnson" <geoffj at unm.edu>
To: <virtualvairs at corvair.org>
Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2008 8:09 PM
Subject: <VV> It's Alive - 1966 500


> My '66 500 four door is back to life with a new egine.  Tomorrow will be
> four
> weeks that I have owned it.  Now it was 'running' when I got it and I put
> about a thousand miles on it.   Yet the amount af blowby was unbelievable!
> Tore it down two weeks ago and put in new TRW pistons with ceramic coating
> and chrome
> rings.   Also nicely deflashed, ported, ceramic coated heads.    Fired it
> up this afternoon and it settled into a nice happy idle.   Drive great.
> I need to change the oil again and put the lower shrouds on now.
>
>
> -Geoff Johnson
>
>
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