<VV>Fan HP

[Stephen Upham]

I hope this doesn't sound completely inane, but I remember building a 
1/25 AMC plastic model of a Yenko Stinger in the late sixties (man I 
wish I still had that model car, and a 1/1 working version also, but I 
digress).  Anywho, the model had air vent scoops located on either side 
of the car just below the rear window pillar, but I've never seen an 
actual Corvair with this setup.  A. Do they exist or was this a 
creation of AMC and B. would it provide sufficient cooling to justify 
the $ needed to pull it off?  I also seem to remember seeing a scoop 
that could be added to the top of the plenum for a late.  Have these 
shown to produce any significant cooling?


Stephen Upham
Corvairium II

Mid prod. #18732 -1965 Monza sedan 110

Message: 6
Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2005 22:47:30 -0700
From: "Ron" <ronh at owt.com>
Subject: Re: <VV>Fan HP
To: <virtualvairs at corvair.org>, "Padgett" <pp2 at 6007.us>
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The reverse flow concept would kill one of the best features of the 
Corvair
design and that is the downward flow that keeps all of the top engine
equipment at near ambient temperature, the carburetors, alternator,
distributer, etc. all run cool and trouble free.  Also, of course, a 
ducted
cool air supply would need to be found for the engine air and the dirty 
air
from under the car certainly wouldn't be optimum for that.  Also, I 
wouldn't
be willing to toss the entire heating system and revert to a car from 
the
twenties.  It seems obvious that the problems found will easily exceed 
the
problems solved.
RonH