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

Richard rampside64 at att.net
Sat Sep 25 10:01:21 EDT 2010


I had the same on my '68 GTO. A friend had the same on a '67 442 Olds.
Bought the car in '69. Those big blocks  chewed them up pretty fast. Only had about 30k miles. Replaced it with cast iron. No more problems. 

Richard Gebhardt
CORSA member for 30 years


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On Sep 25, 2010, at 8:02 AM, Jim Houston <jhouston001 at cfl.rr.com> wrote:

>  My '52 Chevy inline 6 had some kind of fiber camshaft gear.  I 
> stripped the gears off of it at least once that I remember...  
> replacement gear was the same material, so I went with an aftermarket 
> aluminum gear from Clifford ...
> 
> Jim Houston
> 
> On 9/25/2010 8:44 AM, Tony Underwood wrote:
>> 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..
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