[V8Vairs] Torvair Front Weight

[Larry]

At 06:46 AM 1/11/2008, you wrote:
>
>My tires are 235-60x14, front and back. Plenty of bite. I'm using 14s
>because I got a set of vintage Shelby miniltes at a remarkable price and
>then a person sold me a set of 5 new tires for about the price of 2.
>They were too big for his 390 Fairlane... 15s would be a better deal to
>get a bigger footprint and better selection.
>
>You front tires are surely way too small, IMHO.

Sounds like it.


>Once you get to driving faster, you should be careful about the back end
>coming loose if it's that stiff. Bumpy curves will make the car skip
>sideways. I went around a 90 degree turn at 25mph at work this morning
>and the back end of my car (non-Corvair to my shame) skipped sideways
>about a foot because of wavy asphalt caused by heavy trucks. I'll bet
>the guy next to me on the outside of the turn awakened quickly. A friend
>trashed his '65 Monza by sliding backwards off a back road
>(Auburn-Folsom road for Northern Californians). He'd installed helper
>springs to lift the back of his car in spite of me telling him not to.
>The back suspension was rock hard and the bumpy road sent him into a
>chain link fence. Of course he had side pipes on his otherwise stock
>car. Flex pipe running all the way to the front of the side pipes.

Not to worry.  I raced a 98 Camaro where most of the steering is by 
the throttle. The back does not seem to jump.  Maybe its the 2200 lbs.


>That's a chunk of HP out of a mildly modified engine. That's impressive.

It's all low end but it rumbles great at idle.  Turns heads at every show.

>Are you using a TH325L transaxle?

I don't know if it is a"L" but I do know its a 325 from an 81 Seville 
(Narrower than the Olds)

Larry