<VV> What in the World.....?

[Tony Underwood]

At 05:38 PM 11/2/2009, Jason Cesana wrote:
>And let me tell you the 60 automatic choke is no prize either. The separate
>chokes on the carbs in 63 were a much better design.


The choke on the 1960 Vairs was marginal at best.

At worst it was terrible and unusable, only way to get the car to 
start in the frigid mornings was to stuff a wadded up towel in the 
air cleaner snorkle.


> >What in the World could Chevrolet have been thinking when they went from an
>automatic choke to manual choke control on the Corvair in 1961?


Well... the manual choke did work when you wanted it to.   ;)


>Remember, the (automatic) choke location in 1960 -- it wasn't in the carbs
>-- once they decided to change it for 61, they may have not had sufficient
>time to get the design change implemented  and working satisfactorily before
>the 61 models were finalized, so they defaulted to an old standby???  my
>best guess ...


They were desperate to make SOMEthing work, and they grabbed at straws.




>Meaning 'Plan A' didn't work very good, and manual was 'Plan X'
>
>Bill Strickland

You bet.


At a NC Fall Vair show a few years ago, I attended a tech session 
hosted by the Corsa NC carb guru who put on a very good session, 
during which people commented.   MY remark was that the '60 choke 
system wasn't worth a whole lot (to be charitable) and someone else 
perked up and said,


"The '60 choke system worked very well."




I SO wanted to say something, but for the sake of civility I kept my 
mouth shut.


But, I have never seen an original '60 choke setup that was still 
working since I've been fooling with Corvairs (1979) that hadn't been 
refurbished or parts replaced or something.     Meanwhile, there are 
bunches of '62-up Vairs with original chokes still working fine, untouched.

;)




tony..