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corvairs are super shweet :)

 

why did Ralph Nader kill those things. they were the closest things to porsches GM ever had.

 

where's the shifter on that thing?! buttons in the dash?

 

I like the reupholstered Prelude seats.

 

i was just wondering about the seats lol.

 

You mean it has more than one gear?

It has no reverse, and only has one gear... if you see no gear shifters, go with the most obvious explanation.


hahahahahahhaha

AWesome rides.... Love the paint job, very clean even if it has no gloss.

 

Your neighbor has a very large truck. The only word in my vocabulary (included southern colloquialisms) is honkin' huge.

 

The trans is a auto with the shift lever in the dash, and its an unrestored car, with 50k on the speedo, I installed the seats as the orginal ones were too high and too far forward. and they are honda seats...

 

OH SNAPS, your neighbors have one of those big trucks that Shaq drives in. That thing get's like 4mpg. Tell them thanks for their big ass carbon footprint. I wonder how much it would take to fill that Semi-Semi Truck up? Eco FTMFW!

Sweet cars by the way.

 

I've had a Corvair for a long time. Not a great , durable ,trouble free car like a Honda, or Toyota, Mazda or Nissan in original form, actually probably the worst built and least durable in oem form. However, if you reconstruct the car making many numerous modifications to overcome the many serious factory flaws , and then and only then can the Corvair become roadworthy and drive anywhere. There is a great Corvair site and technical & all things Corvair forum, just go to Corvair Center and click on to forum. These guys are those diehards that drive them daily, race them, modify them, if you want to know anything about those funky, badly built GM's answer to the VW , check it out. Note you will come across more than a few out of touch fanatics that still believe that GM is the greatest manufacturer around. Just so ya know. You'll find good people, who are wizards at turning almost garbage into something useable and driveable. Corvairs are fun like any other fun cars but be forwarned, they do require the largest amount of hands on wrenching knowledge of nearly any car ever produced because of the uniqueness and the poor mechanical build quality and numerous factory flaws which contribute to poor reliabilty and driveability. Solutions are available that make them as reliable as any vintage American car. Neat looking and fun cars but don't expect much in the way of fuel economy, and expect it to leak oil enough to put stains on your driveway and garage floor. The good news is they are so simple and basic that a simple tool set , floor jack and shop manual etc, you can build one in your backyard and make it far better than GM built em which ain't sayin' much. They are incredibly cheap to buy but parts aren't necessarily inexpensive and they DO require a huge amount of hands on knowledge.

 

Thats an extremely nice original car! Has it lived its whole life in CA ? Ghostfit to answer your question, Nader killed the Corvair because he engaged in the sort of witch-hunt that liberal douche-bags love to get into. The early Corvairs had an unfortunate design flaw in the front suspension that allowed radical camber changes when the suspension was unloaded (like when going over the crest of a steep hill at speed) This caused the early cars to have tendency to roll over. The flaw was corrected in later years and the car was actually pretty decent for what it was. It should have been famous for being the generals earliest experiment with factory forced induction (they could be had with a turbo!) It was also a fairly popular "compact car" when the norm was something the size of a coal barge. Kudos to you N6Nev for the seat upgrade, they look like they belong there.

 

I have owned the car for 5 years and have had no problems. After changing the push rod tube seals with the green viton seals, it is now leak free. I found it on e bay in Florida, and I am familar with the web site. Simple to maintain, I owned a auto repair shop in Ca. begining in 1963, and am now retired. thanks for you imput ......

 

I have heard tales of guys putting a reverse rotation 231 V6 turbo out of the Buick Grand National in the two door Monzas and hunting Corvettes with them, now that would be a sleeper!

 

The camber change occours in the rear as it has swing axles. Applying throttle causes the rear to lower just a tad, and that will provide negative camber, which is good, let up on the throttle and the car will raise just a tad, and that will cause positive camber, which is bad when entering a curve too fast, its a case to the tail waging the dog, as the engine is in the rear.. (dont ask me how I know)....