<VV> Re: [fastvair] Autocross report (BIG BLOW-UP)

[levair at aol.com]

I did notice that when Paul started his car that the starter engagement was uneven just like one of my cars--now I'm worried.
  About 15 years ago my midmounted Corvair formula car with the Powerglide tranmission, scattered the transmission thru the tire, suspension, and wing at an autocross. Corner workers beware!
 
Warren
 
 
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From: paulvair at yahoo.com
To: fastvair at yahoogroups.com
Cc: VirtualVairs at corvair.org
Sent: Mon, 21 May 2007 9:05 AM
Subject: [fastvair] Autocross report (BIG BLOW-UP)


Group,
           You hear stoies about flywheel blow-ups Now I know why you need a 
scatter sheild in a front engined car.
           Yesterday at our Indy region autocross we had a good showing of 
Covairs.Warren LeVeque had his 64 roadster,Mike had his #45 Stinger and Jeff 
Rapp had his red coupe up and runniing again after his Yenko reunion cam gear 
problems.
         We had 3 run groups and I ran the last group. The others ran the second 
group.We were to get 5 runs. Mike had fuel pump problems and finished his runs 
in Jeffs car. Otherwise the Covairs did welll in run group 2.
          Then it was my turn to run the white car in group 3. The first 3 runs 
went well. Warren ,Jeff and Mike stayed after to watch my runs. They didn't stay 
long enough though! On the 4th run which started better than the others.I was 
blasting down the back straight when all of a sudden "BANG" the car just ground 
to a halt. What was that I thought? Corner workers were running everywhere 
bringing me broken parts. I got out of the car to see the engine and transaxle 
on the ground. With the parts they were bringing me and by looking at the damage 
I saw that the flywheel had exploded at 7000rpm. It's unreal the damage a 
flywheel blow-up can cause. There are large 6" holes in the body at the rear of 
the car. We were only able to find 1 flywheel part. However we found most of the 
bell housing.What a mess.The pressure plate is shot as is my fancy light weight 
starter. It bent the throttle linkage and the oil catch can.I can only hope that 
the crank is ok.All I had left to do
 to get the engine out was unbolt the cooler lines and fuel line and the the 
rear mount bolts.(has anyone pulled a Corvair engine on an airport taxi way 
before?)I spred oil dry on the mess and had some help loading the engine in the 
Rampside. I strapped the transaxle up with a hold down strap and towed the whole 
mees home. 
        Looks like it's time to finish that 3.1 engine that has been sitting on 
the garage floor for 2 years.
                  Paul Fox
  P.S. I did win CP as I was the only car in the class. Man was that an 
expensive win!

       
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