<VV> Fwd: Re: Lowering Early

Mon Feb 7 23:19:05 EST 2011

-----Original Message-----
From: levair <levair at aol.com>
To: bmoneill <bmoneill at juno.com>
Sent: Mon, Feb 7, 2011 11:18 pm
Subject: Re: <VV> Lowering Early

The front trans mount and the rear motor mount were raised about 1 1/2
" by sectioning the mounts.
Of course lots of other things had to be rerouted along the way.
I didn't say that it was easy but it works.
It still doesn't handle as well as a late model due to the higher roll
center of a swing axle suspension.

Warren
.

-----Original Message-----
From: Brian <bmoneill at juno.com>
To: levair <levair at aol.com>
Sent: Mon, Feb 7, 2011 10:43 am
Subject: Re: <VV> Lowering Early

Tell us how it was done!!

---------- Original Message ----------
From: levair at aol.com
To: vairologist at cox.net, virtualvairs at corvair.org
Subject: Re: &lt;VV&gt; Lowering Early
Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2011 09:59:28 -0500 (EST)

The back of the Bill Thomas/Doug Roe 1960 Corvair is  now lowered by
raising the entire drive train. The resulting camber on the rear of the
car is -1/2 deg.

Warren

-----Original Message-----
From: Smitty &lt;vairologist at cox.net&gt;
To: virtualvairs &lt;virtualvairs at corvair.org&gt;
Sent: Sun, Feb 6, 2011 8:37 pm
Subject: &lt;VV&gt; Lowering Early

&gt;&gt; At this point this is purely hypothetical, I'm just sitting
here
thinking
&gt;&gt; about one of my (relatively far off) future Corvair builds and
I was
&gt;&gt; wondering....  What can be done, or might be able to be done,
to
achieve
&gt;&gt; a
&gt;
&gt;&gt; fairly drastically lowered early model Corvair, specifically
without
&gt;&gt; having the rear wheels sitting at odd angles?
****************************
Smitty Says;  Ray turn your thinking upside down and start thinking
this
way.  What can be done to raise the engine and drive train up into the
body
of an Early?  If you are commited to having near 0 Degrees camber in
back
that is the only way you can do it.  I'm sure if you actually look at
the
situation, as I have you will realize you would be biting off a huge
chunk
to accomplish raising the engine a measley 2 inches for an equal ride
height
reduction.

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