[V8Vairs] Lengthened Wheel Base Corvairs

[Ryan Counterman]

Has anyone started with a LM Sedan, and used coupe front doors, making the 
longer wheelbased sedan into a coupe?  Then put your Crown kit in and walah, 
a few more inches...A little custom body work and you would have a stock 
looking long corvair...

>From: WytchMedea at wmconnect.com
>Reply-To: v8vairs at corvair.org
>To: v8vairs at corvair.org
>Subject: [V8Vairs] Lengthened Wheel Base Corvairs
>Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2005 20:52:15 EDT
>
>Hello,
>
>I was wondering if anyone has had any experience with setting the transaxle
>more rearward and creating an offset in the axle center line?   Pushing
>everything to the rear about one inch but leaving the control arms in the 
>same place
>creates about a 3 degree difference.  I cannot find any axle information 
>but
>the drive shaft people say 3 degrees on the u-joints of like a 16 inch 
>drive
>shaft is no problem but I think the axle turns a little faster.   A lot of 
>guys
>lower their Corvairs and an upward angle is introduced at that time, and I 
>do
>not believe that they have any problems.
>
>What I would like to do is push my engine back about an inch and a half 
>(for
>a total of about 2 inches with the Chris Wills adapter) and lengthen the
>control arms an inch.  As I read an old news letter Arch Evans mentioned 
>that in
>the early stages of his kit he was going to make available lengthened 
>control
>arms as the wheel well would accommodate this and also look better.
>
>Rob
>
>
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