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

[jvhroberts at aol.com]

 First of all whatever anyone wants to do is their thing, no holds barred! But adding water to a Corvair engine, on either side of the combustion chamber, goes against the air cooled thing. <g>


 


 

-----Original Message-----
From: Tony Underwood <tony.underwood at cox.net>
To: virtualvairs at corvair.org
Sent: Sat, Jun 20, 2009 11:27 am
Subject: Re: <VV> Cooling Boosted Corvairs Re: You know your Turbo is working when...










At 09:01 AM 6/20/2009, jvhroberts at aol.com wrote:

>  Of course, carrying around THAT much water has serious 
> practicality issues. Clearly a Corvair engine can't run at max 
> power indefinitely due to cooling limitations. So, you do all the 
> usual stuff, clean out the fins, get rid of the lower shrouds, 
> etc., and do the best you can.
>
>On the other hand, installing one of a number of water cooled flat 
>6s means the water isn't expended... <G>
>
>
>




But that defeats the purpose of its being a Corvair.





Do the best you can with what you have...  isn't that the 
point?     Nothing wrong with customs and mods, but I'd rather see 
what can be done with what's there already.   But that's just me...







tony.. 
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