<VV> Cooling Boosted Corvairs Re: You know your Turbo is working when...

[FrankCB]

Ken,
     Gee, I wonder how Tom Keosababian ever cooled his turbo Corvair that made 157 mph at Bonneville using a 4 barrel carb with a BIG turbo (estimated at 350 HP).  Then later he ran again at Bonneville with the Corvair engine and TWO turbos using propane fuel at 173 mph (probably over 450 HP).
     Obviously he figured out how to "convert" his air-cooled Corvair engine to "water cooling".  Too bad you gave up so soon!!<GGGG>
     Frank "water good for man and engine" Burkhard

In a message dated 06/19/09 13:53:14 Eastern Daylight Time, deltainc at grm.net writes:
I went all thru the 180 and put in all new good parts ... ( ching! $4000 
back in 88 )... then decided that if I finished hopping it up, I could never 
cool it anyway ....  short of the waterfall treatment ... so I quit there 
and bot/built some v8 vairs ...  they are very reliable and a Target SBO 
( small block Obama heh heh ) is about $4K cheaper than a rebuilt corvair 
engine.  sigh.  ya know, I do miss that whooshing sound, tho ... 

just some thoughts , ken campbell, iedoghway