<VV> Re: engines for airplanes

[Louis C. Armer,Jr.]

Wade, why would the 110 engines from only those be used? Why would they not
use 110 engines from 1964 through 1969? If you don.t know the answer 
then can you
get the answer from the airplane gurus?

Chuck Armer
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At 11:29 AM 3/24/2006, you wrote:
>Actually, engines are not the "hard to find" part of a decent 
>Corvair. If you find a decent body, mechanical parts are much easier 
>to come by. The aircraft builders are mostly interested in the 
>block, crank, and heads from 1966-67 110 engines. They have a 
>"formula" list of parts and procedures to build tested and reliable 
>engines suitable for aircraft. For the most part, they don't use 
>starters, fuel system, cooling system, exhaust system, camshaft, 
>flywheel, harmonic balancer etc etc from the core engines they buy. 
>All those used parts are still available to the Corvair car hobby. I 
>think we can afford to share a few 110 cores with these guys. They 
>support our vendors too. I'm  looking forward to their fly-in in June.
>Wade
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