Marcus' Corvair conversion, 914-C6 Options

[r3dplanet]

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]

Okay, I have to admit that I'm a little confused but I'm sure that this challenge will be met and solved. To solve the curiosity for rick_cv, myself, and perhaps others I disassembled my crusty part.

The flywheel assembly is a sandwich made of the clutch disc, flywheel, and pressure plate. The pressure plate is bolted right to the conversion flywheel with the clutch disc kept inside. Here's a closer pic. I know these parts are rusty, but they'll be cleaned and balanced before being put into service.



Apparently, this flywheel assembly is from Kennedy.



The clutch disc is also F&S (which is just Sachs now, isn't it?) and measured 180mm, quite a bit smaller than the 215mm 914 clutch. Hopefully that won't be a hideous issue. But the 180mm size tells me that this is a standard VW part - not a 914 part. Clark's sells three clutch discs. A standard VW clutch, and high performance clutch, and a racing / high hp clutch. I'll probably replace this clutch disc for one of the racing ones.



Finally, here's a pic the recesses for the flywheel bolts.