<VV> Corvair Cooling Fan: Misc Applications

[Harry Yarnell]

If I'm not mistaken, it's not a corvair fan, but a squirrel cage fan that's 
stock on the 911, 914 engines and the VW engine used in the bus from '72 on. 
Bolts to the rear of the crank, and is ducted via an aluminum casting to the 
cylinder/head area.
I can't imagine the corvair fan on the end of a crank...

Harry Yarnell
Perryman garage and orphanage
Perryman, MD
hyarnell1 at earthlink.net
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bryan Blackwell" <bryan at skiblack.com>
To: "James P. Rice" <ricebugg at mtco.com>
Cc: <virtualvairs at corvair.org>
Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2008 7:54 PM
Subject: Re: <VV> Corvair Cooling Fan: Misc Applications


>I would guess, if the fan was bolted directly to the engine, that
> they ran it full size.  In the Corvair it's overdriven, 1:1 might
> work pretty well on a racer.
>
> --Bryan
>
> On Sep 23, 2008, at 5:30 PM, James P. Rice wrote:
>
>> All:  Back in the late '70's a friend raced a Porsche 914 in the
>> SCCA.  He
>> ran a Corvair fan bolted to the front of the crankshaft.  He told
>> me lots of
>> 914 racers used our fan.  Don't remember if it was cut down or
>> not.  My
>> guess is that it was, for approximately the same reason 'Vair
>> racers run cut
>> down fans.
>
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