<VV> testing Tom's cooling system

[Dennis & Debbie Pleau]

As a long time VV member and former chair, I believe everything Corvairs 
belongs on the VVs.  I've never heard before that something that might 
interest the fastvair crowd didn't also belong on theVVs.

Dennis

At 01:55 PM 8/10/2005, Crawford Rose wrote:
>Bob, 19 years of Corvairing; Your assertions regarding the scientific 
>method on the technical side are fine but that discussion is supposed to 
>be on Fastvairs.  The casual Corvair user is led to believe that the stock 
>system is somehow defective while it is not, that an electric fan would be 
>superior, etc., and, in my opinion, the magnesium fan is very sufficient 
>for street and highway use.  The comments about the stock fan are 
>constantly negative. This debate about flipping fanbelts does go back to 
>1960, however, the decades long debate about testing a replacement system 
>doesn't belong on Virtual Vairs, in my opinion. It's a racing issue 
>only.  If people can't seem to afford to repair their cars to stock specs, 
>I don't foresee this thread being of much use. What does it have to do 
>with maintaining and preserving a corvair?  If this is the new purpose of 
>VV, to explore new technologies, I'd rather see discussions of Honda VTEC 
>transplants (160 hp DIN) or electric hybrids than Tom's electric fan which 
>you have already assessed to be mathematically insufficient.  The 
>controversy will go on forever...
>Crawford