<VV> Just an odd addition...

[ScottyGrover at aol.com]

In my experience of driving Corvairs (over 40 years), the steering is so  
light, due to normal weight distribution, that the effort is less than a  
front-engined car. With a trunk full of luggage or, as in the case of one  
Corvair I bought years ago, two sacks of cement in the trunk to hold the front  
end down (put there by the previous owner), it's another story altogether.   
Normally, the steering wheel could be made much smaller before the steering 
 effort matches that of a front-engined car without power steering.  
 
Scotty from Hollyweird
 
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In a message dated 4/17/2013 9:48:16 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,  
Shelrockbored at aol.com writes:

In a  message dated 4/17/2013 5:50:43 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,   
cash.case at sbcglobal.net writes:

I've got  a 1965 Corsa.
I'm  a bit tall so I modify things a bit in my Corvairs.
I  change out the  seats.  The latest has 2004 Chrysler Sebring seats  
because I  can lower and tilt the seat so I fit. The first thing that  
goes is  the stock steering wheel. I replace it with a much small  
radiused  wheel.





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I recently serviced a 1965  Monza where the owner had done that, replaced  
the stock wheel with a  wheel of smaller diameter.  What is the advantage 
to  
this  beyond contemporary aesthetics?  You don't find that more difficult  
to  
drive?

I found it made the Monza very hard to handle since  there is no power  
steering.  If you like it by all means do it,  but I found it made  
steering much 
more difficult.   

Steve Sassi