<VV> Rebulding Retard?

[Louis DeRobertis]

How difficult is it to do this?  I've always thought about doing it - but I
get nervous when I think I read something about drilling into the carb....

Is this a one day project?

Regards,

Lou


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> Message: 11
> Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2007 17:58:53 EST
> From: FrankCB at aol.com
> Subject: Rebuilding Retard? Re: <VV> Communique back issue 7/84
> To: corsa at defiancestudios.com, westerncanadacorsa at shaw.ca
> Cc: virtualvairs at corvair.org
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> Mike,
>     By the time you pay for the cost of rebuilding your  stock retard unit,
> why not just replace it with a Dale vacuum advance/pressure  retard unit?  One
> reason the turbo Corvairs are sluggish in normal street  driving and give such
> poor gas mileage is the lack of vacuum advance.  They  are the ONLY Corvairs
> that lack vacuum advance!  If you install vacuum  advance on your distributor,
> and make provision for pressure retard as  well, you'll get a Corvair that
> performs more like UN-turboed Corvair before the  boost comes up and still can
> function well when it's boosted.  See further  details on how to do this in
> the 
> Turbocharging chapter in the Corvair Basics  Manual.  When I did this on my
> 180 that was being driven daily to work, not  only did the part throttle
> acceleration and throttle response both improve, but  also the gas mileage
> went up 
> by over 20%.  Talk about having your cake and  eating it too!
>     Frank "try it you'll like it" Burkhard
>  
>  
> In a message dated 2/20/2007 1:15:14 AM Eastern Standard Time,
> corsa at defiancestudios.com writes:
> 
> D'oh!
> 
> Well, I found a used one in good condition, and I can send  my old one to Dale
> Mfg to rebuild over the summer so I have a spare.   If I didn't find this used
> one, I would have been stuck until summer.   A good reason to find out how
> difficult it would be to rebuild  myself.
> 
> 
> Mike
> Vegas Vairs - CORSA 891
> 65 Corsa  Turbo
> 
> 
> 
> Quoting Western Canada CORSA  <westerncanadacorsa at shaw.ca>:
> 
>> Mike,
>> 
>> I  pulled my copy out, I was going to scan the tip and email it to you.
>>  However, it's just a single paragraph advising people not to throw  broken
>> units out, that they can be rebuilt, it doesn't say HOW it can  be rebuilt.
>> The tip was written by David Langsather, guess where you  go next?<g>
>> 
>> Regards,
> 
> 
> 
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