<VV> Highrise air cleaner

[airvair]

As long as I have owned Corvairs, I have always moved the spare to the
trunk, for weight distribution and engine acccessability reasons. It
fits quite nicely lying horizontal in the bottom of a LM trunk. But
nowadays, I don't need to, as all my Corvairs have a/c, which as most of
you know, has a front-mounted spare to start with. :o)

-Mark

Padgett wrote:
> 
> >  regarding the highrise extension for some time.
> >That being said, I just can't believe that such a short extension has much
> >affect at all.  If it did, why didn't GM do it?
> 
> Inna word, the spare tire. I have a 185x80x13 (pretty close to the original
> 7.00 x13) in the spare right now and there is less than an inch clearance
> between the rubber and the tube to the right carb. To use a 2" spacer I
> would need to raise the spare by at least an inch which means the spare
> would need to be supported differently.
> 
> Now with a smaller spare (space savers were available for Firebirds) there
> would be no problem but you are talking about a significant engineering
> effort when the general had already decided to can the Corvair as soon as
> politically possible.
> 
> Further, more power was not necessarily important at the time. So they may
> have known but just decided that it did not matter.
> 
> Might note that for the max gross hp (test 20) and carb flow tests, GM
> removed the air cleaner.
> 
> Padgett
>