<VV> Re: Weird Engines

[NOSVAIR@aol.com]

In a message dated 2/20/2004 9:40:55 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
virtualvairs-request@corvair.org writes:

>   Finally in the May 1978 issue shows what appears to be two GM engineers 
> looking over a turbo Vair engine with an unusual square box on the manifold. 
> 
> Caption asks what are they doing? Thoughts on this?
>   Ed in Florida
> 
Ed,
  This sounds like the engine that currently resides in the Super Spyder show 
car.  The "box" is a air tight plenum designed to house the carb which is 
downstream from the turbocharger/ supercharger....unlike the original turbo 
layout which was first installed in that car.

Bruce Webster