<VV> Rebuild II--advice

[Chuck Kubin]

He was nice to help. I'd ask him to help lift, than politely smile and nod when he gives advice. Get answers from people who actually do the work instead of those who think they remember from limited experience 30 years ago.
For starts, you can't tell much about MOST things by whacking them and listening. Similar sized objects of the same material pretty much all resonate the same. Any damage that makes it sound radically different will be apparent.
"Mostly Porsches with prototype drive trains" makes a lot of sense. If you wanted to test a new component, why would you build a whole car around it? Doesn't it make sense to test a prototype in a similarly-configured machine that already works? 
 
--------He told me that he had worked on Corvairs back in the early 70's while
> in the employ of a Porche repair shop.------------
 
 Uhhhh, OK, but given the relatively higher expense and lower availability of a mechanic working on import performance cars, how many people took their Corvairs to Porsche mechanics?  At the request of a friend, I tuned his bug at about the time I had owned my '64 Monza for more than a year and was studying to become an aircraft mechanic. It was easy (points is points, plugs is plugs) but that didn't make me enough of a VW expert to rebuild his engine and determiine what static parts (like the studs and other hardware) weren't automatically reusable.
 
Chuck

		
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