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

[Test User]

frank-your mixing apples and oranges. what tom did on the salt flats has no
bearing on what can be dopne for a street car. assuming tom had some way to
control the flow rate of water he could have been injecting more water into
his engine than a street engine could have handled. i've seen/heard v8's out
there that didn't even fire on all 8 cylinders until well over 150mph. i've
also seen air to ait intercoolers that were larger than the corvair engine.
why not look at all the different band aids porsche tried in their quest for
high power and streetable air cooled heads. none really worked until they
went to water cooled heads. i've tried using water injecting quanties until
the engine would barely run at slow speeds and decided to run a safeguard
system instead. much faster reacting, no worrying about how much water to
feed the engine and etc. i'm also using a front mounted mazda oil cooler and
synthetic oil so not much more can be done that way. mike mann
On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 8:40 PM, FrankCB <frankcb at aol.com> wrote:

> 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
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