<VV> Was the 1964 Spyder a 150hp or 180hp?

[Tony Underwood]

At 11:18 AM 12/20/2010, corvairduval at cox.net wrote:
>And camshaft is different. Maybe distributor curve?
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>But, yes, you can bolt late turbo/carb/cam to 164 YR block....
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>Thinking was that the 64 setup was better pants feel in town traffic, 180
>better on wide open open road...
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>Frank DuVal
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>Original Message:
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>From: Matt Nall patiomatt at aol.com
>Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2010 20:45:23 -0500 (EST)
>To: virtualvairs at corvair.org
>Subject: Re: <VV> Was the 1964 Spyder a 150hp or 180hp?
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>Was the 1964 Spyder really a 180hp
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>Nope 150   smaller carb and turbo  than a 180



For what it's worth, I've had one of each and in stock trim the '64 
was simply faster than the '63.   A fair bit faster that you could 
feel easily.

But that's just my opinion...



tony..