<VV> Spyder/Corsa turbo--fast?

[kevin nash]

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> Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2010 21:55:05 -0800
> From: "Rodney Spooner" <rodneyspooner at corvairgarage.com>
> Subject: Re: <VV> Spyder/Corsa turbo -- fast?
> To: "'Eric S. Eberhard'" <flash at vicsmba.com>, <jvhroberts at aol.com>
> Cc: virtualvairs at corvair.org
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> If you really want to drag a Corvair to a drag strip try bracket racing. At
> least you have a fighting chance to beat the likes of the Bugatti Veryon,
> the Tesla Roadster, The Shelby GT500, Porsche Turbo, Vette ZR1, Toyota Land
> Cruiser with A/C, Nav, 4x4, leather, fantastic stereo, stability control,
> and maybe even a F@#d Powerstroke pulling a trailer with a Corvair on
> it!!!!!!!
> 
> The Corvair was never intended to be a dragster (although I seem to vaguely
> recall that there were several that were successful on the strip). Corvair
> WAS, as we all know, THE KICK-BUTT SCCA RACE CAR to beat in its class for a
> few years back in the day!!! Corvair could'a been a contendah (I think it
> could've! I think it could've! I think it could've!) if Government Motors
> hadn't pulled the R&D rug out. Just look what Porsche and Subaru has
> accomplished and is still accomplishing.
> 
> Corvair set many records back in the day. I seem to remember something about
> Pikes Peak. That's the stuff of Legends, kid.
> 
> I have (somewhere) a picture of a '65/'66 Corsa street dragging a dealer
> prepped '69 or '70 something Pontiac GTO. The Corvair beat the Pontiac off
> the line and was a full car length ahead when the picture was snapped. No
> trick photography or Photoshop there. What happened after that...I could
> really care less...maybe the Pontiac massacred the Corsa on the top end. But
> I like to think that if there were challenging curves ahead, The Pontiac
> would've been cursing the Corsa while choking on its dust.
> 
> I wouldn't be at all surprised if the Electrovair (I and/or II) got better
> range than the Volt (how reVOLTing would that be???)
> 
> I LOVE my Corvairs. I have a dream...if only I had the money. (I think I
> can! I think I can!! I think I can!!!)
> 
> Vairy truly yours,
> Rodney

 
 Part of the charm of the spyders then was that it was incredibly cheap and relatively inexpensive to take the 0-60 times
down from 10.5 secs to 8. The major expenditure then to get a spyder to run 14.80 in the 1/4 was apparently a stromberg
carburetor- the rest of the changes were mostly the result of careful tuning and removing excess weight-not bad for a 
"economy" car!
Kevin