<VV> Questions: corvair / dune buggy / maybe VW????

[Michael Kovacs]

 Copper pipe is possibly for a "HOT SPOT" to keep the carb warm to help prevent icing and to improve the fuel atomization. Usually on big aircraft recip engines, done with hot engine oil.

cjcavitt at comcast.net wrote:   

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From: "werp knarly" 

> friend just trailered home a manx type dune buggy from the 70's in GREAT 
> SHAPE with some graphic that lool rat finkish.... very cool 
> 
> 1 trans axle looks wierd, 3 spd w/ a solid axle on wheel side and a boot with 
> bolts on inboard side.. early vair or vw??? 
> 
sounds like a vw irs set-up but not posative but it's def. not corvair.

> 2 it has a center mount 4bbl holly with a copper pipe running from the side of 
> the carb to the port-side exaust pipe.. what the heck could that be for ?!?!?!? 
> its piped into the lower side of the carb 
> 
> _its probably not going into the carb but the base the carb is mounted to. most likely they were trying to heat the carb to keep from iceing up.
curt

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