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Marcus' Corvair conversion, 914-C6 |
r3dplanet |
Jul 10 2013, 10:50 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 679 Joined: 3-September 05 From: Portland, Oregon Member No.: 4,741 Region Association: None |
A few years back I got all excited about doing a Corvair engine conversion for my 1971 car. The project waffled. Numbers were crunched and chewed. Thought and diagrams and opinions were drawn out over long winter evenings.
One particularly rainy winter evening, I found an ad on Craigslist advertising a warehouse full of Corvair parts including engines. So my pal Rory and I drove a hundred miles into the boonies late one rainy night to what turned out to be an unmarked, geographically isolated, former slaughterhouse illuminated by a single 60 watt light bulb. No cell phone reception, no escape. We were met by a couple of toothless brothers who couldn't stop talking about Daddy. Seemingly they only did what Daddy wanted them to do. Daddy wanted them to sell the stash of Corvair parts. Daddy wanted them to steal my Toyota cargo van. Daddy needed to approve the transaction of cash for an engine. Daddy, it turned out, was long dead. The two brothers kept trying to separate Rory and I, and the creepier of the two brothers kept demanding my car keys so he could test drive my van, despite my insistence that it wasn't for sale. For the first time in a long time, I wish I had a tazer gun on me. The brothers eventually showed us exactly what I wanted - an RD code 1965 110HP engine. Fearing for our lives, Rory and I muscled the engine into the van while the brothers went to find more stuff for Daddy to sell to us, or you know, maybe a club or some rope or a ball gag or something. I left the $100 on the bench and tore the hell out. Rory and I laughed all the way back to town, ever so pleased that we were neither killed, nor raped, nor eaten. Plus, we were one up on a Corvair engine. So with a provenance like this, and seeing JRust's new car, Dr. Evil's project, and 914coops Nader's Nightmare all take shape I've finally decided to get serious about my own project: the VW-Porsche 914-C6. The "C" stands for Corvair. |
r3dplanet |
Jul 12 2013, 10:46 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 679 Joined: 3-September 05 From: Portland, Oregon Member No.: 4,741 Region Association: None |
Flipping the engine shows 19 bolts to remove the oil pan. I'll discard this item also in favor a much better aftermarket aluminum unit with cooling fins.
And the oil pickup is revealed. By CAREFULLY tapping the bottom of the dipstick tube with a 16oz hammer the case is free of one more accessory. The oil pickup tube was really stuck. But I found that I could use a long extension and a 10mm socket to carefully drive it through the case from the outside. GM made a special tool for this job but it's completely unavailable. This part I've been dreading. The clutch, pressure plate, and flywheel assembly were just on the wrong side of the engine stand, and all of the bolts were super rusty. After a two day soak with Kroil, I was able to slowly draw them out. The clutch plate and clutch disc are free. I unbolted the bottom bolts on the engine stand and was able to drop them right out. And finally the flywheel is revealed. The six flywheel-to-crank bolts looked as rusty as my high school German language skills. I couldn't keep the rotating assembly from spinning when I tried to loosen the bolts. So I threaded one bolt into the flywheel thread and another to the case and wedged a 1/2" combination wrench in between them. With even, heavy pressure on my long socket wrench the bolts slurped right out. Finally just the bell housing bolts remain, but I need to prop up the crank case first. That's a job for this coming weekend. The bell housing, clutch assembly, and flywheel will also be discarded since it won't be used in the 914. |
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