<VV> Carburetor Heat System

[Dave Ziegler]

But, the FC's had removable plate in the sidewalls to increase or  
decrease cooling air flow.

Dave...
On Jul 12, 2009, at 3:01 PM, lonzovair at aol.com wrote:

> Bill,
> The EMs with A/C also had small metal plates to cover those  
> holes... and the Spyders, too... FCs did not, but probably could  
> have benefitted from it.
> Hope this helps.
> Lonzo
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris & Bill Strickland <lechevrier at earthlink.net>
> To: virtualvairs at corvair.org
> Sent: Sun, Jul 12, 2009 2:41 pm
> Subject: Re: <VV> Carburetor Heat System
>
>
>
>
>> Most Corvairs did not have summer/winter plates.
>>
>
> See, now we get into a early-late thing again -- were there more  
> earlies
> or more lates?  I'm not looking it up because I don't really care, but
>
> 1960's had a switch/valve/whatever in the carb heat tube, which I
> believe I've heard was not originally fitted, but added early in  
> production.
>
> 1961-1964 you actually needed to bend the carb heat flaps closed in  
> the
> summer -- duct tape anyone, to get sucked into the fan when the  
> adhesive
> fails?  Perhaps screw a piece of flat tin under the opening?
>
> 1965-1969  I, again believing, think the plates were factory on cars
> with the 12 plate oil coolers, and could be put on all the others by
> drilling the fastening hole.  Were there more than one size of  
> these plates?
>
> Somebody out there knows all this stuff for sure, and I hope any  
> errors
> herein will spur corrective remarks.
>
> Thank you,
>
> Bill Strickland
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