<VV> 60-62 Burned Valves

[Mark Durham]

That is interesting news, because I bought a 62 corvair from a ford dealer
when I was back in high school that had burnt valves at 40K miles. I rebuilt
the motor replacing all the valves, and 180K later the ones I put in where
still going strong.
Mark Durham

On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 11:16 AM, n5hsr <n5hsr at sprynet.com> wrote:

> Yep, the 62 700 coupe we owned was purchased on December 17, 1961, so it
> was
> definitely an 'early' 62.
>
> Charles Fregeau
> ex 62 700 coupe.
>  ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Smitty Smith" <vairologist at verizon.net>
> To: <virtualvairs at corvair.org>
> Sent: Monday, December 21, 2009 12:09
> Subject: <VV> 60-62 Burned Valves
>
>
> > Smitty Says;  Some of you may remember a few years ago, a GM engineer was
> > a guest speaker at a convention.  He addressed the burning valve problem.
> > He mentioned the fact that a quarter of a cent was a big deal in auto
> > production and they were up "against it" trying to find a way to improve
> > the valves.  Falcon had superior valves but they couldn't match them on
> > the money allowed.  He said finally one of their corporate spies came
> > through with the information that Ford was using the "punch outs" from
> the
> > full wheel hub caps in their valve mix.  He said, there we were filling
> > dumpsters with punch outs and paying somebody to take them away.  End of
> > problem.
> >
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