<VV> Porsche Cooling

[jvhroberts at aol.com]

 If one were to look at VW, Porsche, and Corvair engines in detail, it's pretty clear that VW and Porsche had lots to do with each other, and the Corvair engine design is about as unrelated as one can be for an air cooled flat engine. 

Besides, weren't the Lycoming and Continental flat six aircraft engines around by then? And wasn't the Tucker flat six a water cooled version of an air cooled aircraft engine? 

I doubt the Porsche engineers had any troubles figuring out how to cool the center cylinders. It's just a matter of due diligence in the design. 

 

John Roberts
 

 

-----Original Message-----
From: BobHelt <BobHelt at aol.com>
To: ricebugg <ricebugg at mtco.com>; virtualvairs <virtualvairs at corvair.org>
Sent: Sun, Sep 11, 2011 2:31 pm
Subject: Re: <VV> Porsche Cooling




In a message dated 9/10/2011 8:59:04 A.M. US Mountain Standard Time,  
ricebugg at mtco.com writes:

Bob  Benzinger told us in Flagstaff that Porsche could not figure out how  
to
cool the center cylinders until Chevrolet did it with the  Corvair.

Marc Sheridan
 
I don't believe that is what Benzinger said at all. 

 
I think he was saying that designing the Corvair engine was NOT just a  
matter of copying the VW/Porsch 4-cylinder engine since adding that center  
cylinder required major changes to the way the exhaust was diverted as it  left 
the cylinders.
Regards,
Bob Helt



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