<VV> 140 Engine Codes

[Mike Stillwell]

 In all reality, though - you are going to be hard pressed to find any street motors with worn cam journals. I've re-used quite a few race blocks with no problems. The only ones I'd really worry about are very high strung GT-3 (Think Jon Brakke, Charlie Clark, Bob Coffin, et al) type motors. With a shed full of street motors pulled 20 plus years ago - I would have no hesitation using any of them, as long as they turn over smoothly.

 Mike 
 YS-117

--- On Sat, 11/26/11, mark at noakes.com <mark at noakes.com> wrote:

> From: mark at noakes.com <mark at noakes.com>
> Subject: Re: <VV> 140 Engine Codes
> To: 
> Cc: virtualvairs at corvair.org
> Date: Saturday, November 26, 2011, 11:41 AM
> Since I started this, actually I was
> looking at entire engines with 
> heads and sheet metal since that's the way we stored them.
> It sounds 
> like I get the closest to what I want by sticking with a
> manual Corsa 
> engine and not just a 140, even if I need to find a lower
> stress block 
> to go with it...the lowest stress I could come up with in
> the stash was 
> a 110 auto w/air but someone may want that one for a stock
> resto. I 
> suppose I could even then redrill non Corsa 140 heads for
> the 
> thermistor. Still in the sorting stages though...prompted
> by having 
> momentary access to the family supply of hardware.
> 
> Thanks to all for the info,
> 
> Mark N
>