<VV> Early vs. Late - issue of the superiority

[Tony Underwood]

At 11:07 PM 9/20/2010, Mark Durham wrote:
>Sorry guys, no picture. All I remember is when I took the pan off in the
>investigation phase (after the dismal compression check), there were no gear
>teeth sticking out at the bottom, and there were a bunch of plastic chunks
>of teeth that came down with the pan.  I went to my usual auto parts store
>and got the necessary parts including a new cam with aluminum gear already
>on it, and rebuilt the motor. They said Chevy had done a run of those
>because they ran quieter, but they, the parts store, had had a lot of
>business from Chevy owners, it wasn't just the Corvair.
>This was a late 62 almost 63, so was assembled in mid 62, and I had this
>happen in 1969 or 1970.
>Mark Durham



There was also that resin-fiber gear that got discussed in here a few 
years back, something that showed up on Ebay (?) or some 
place.  Orange-brown, shaped exactly like a Corvair cam gear and was 
being hawked as such, only one I ever saw.   Obviously aftermarket 
but evidently somebody somewhere must have thought it was a worthy 
effort to have produced it in the first place.


I *have* seen some fiber-resin gears on other things along the way, 
and they seemed to work.   I saw one on a dismantled-for-overhaul 
Ford 6 cylinder back in the late '60s somewhere...   Whether or not 
it would work in a Corvair engine was academic; never seen one since.



tony..