<VV> Weird and wild...Water Cooling the Corvair engine

[Sethracer at aol.com]

In a message dated 5/14/2009 10:14:49 PM Pacific Daylight Time,  
ronh at owt.com writes:

I look  at it and say "Thats an awful lot of work, but for  what?"
RonH

Certainly converting the motor "On a lark" makes no sense. But  
experimenting can lead to breakthroughs. The were/are two instances that water  cooling 
- at least of the heads - could prove beneficial for the Corvair.  One 
would be high boost turbocharged motors. The amount of combustion heat at,  say, 
a 400 HP output, would overwhelm any attempt at air-cooling for more than a 
 10 second drag run. The heat-sink availability of the water coolant would  
provide a better cooling overhead. Second would be for emission compliance. 
 Air-cooled motors (even of high-priced German sports cars) are known to 
retain  hot spots in the combustion chamber and dead spots for combustion 
gases. Not a  lot, but newer cars ave to meet much tighter controls. I would be 
interested in  whether the newer Asian micro-cars, some of which are 
air-cooled, meet the  newer tighter standards. 
 
I remember a story in a manufacturing magazine - about 30 years ago, where  
a Southern California aerospace engineer had modified his Corvair engine 
for  water cooling. I wonder if this was his construction?

 
Seth  Emerson

C's the Day! - Corvair, Camaro, Corvette



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