<VV> 3 Greatest Corvair Improvements

[cjcavitt at comcast.net]

bill the pesky points plate thing you speak of is replaced by the pertronix, so that would mean it is a good replacement. :) curt

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From: Chris & Bill Strickland <lechevrier at earthlink.net> 

> I'll go for Viton o-rings, Yeah! 
> 
> But Pertronix, naw -- just learn how to properly replace points at the 
> recommended oem service interval and it really wasn't a problem -- 
> inconvenient, maybe, but not a problem -- they work fine! (Now that 
> darned points plate though ... ) 
> 
> I think the next biggest Corvair thing that has helped us all is the 
> coming of age of the our aftermarket Corvair specialty suppliers -- "The 
> Vendors" -- during the Eighties, if you needed stuff like 
> weather-stripping, you were just flat out of luck (the decade after GM 
> stripped the remaining Corvair parts from it's inventory), but by the 
> Nineties, these things were available again through the efforts of the 
> vendors. 
> 
> Third, is all the reproduction parts, whichever one it is that *you* 
> need at the moment to keep your Corvair on the road -- they are all 
> important -- not the neat specialty or go-fast stuff, just the nuts and 
> bolts and motor mounts and harmonic balancers and weather-stripping and 
> axle bearings and such that you need to keep your car (or van) (or 
> Ultra) on the road. 
> 
> And Virtual Vairs! 
> 
> Thanks, guys! 
> 
> Bill Strickland 
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