<VV> . Re: Single Carburetor - Hot Air

[Joel McGregor]

That would be the correct way to do it.  A lever on the thermostat door that opened and closed a door to the air cleaner would be the "hot" ticket.  That would be like 1/2 the system on early small block Chevy engines since they had a hot air intake system as well as a carb base heated by exhaust.  Of course I used to remove both systems on mine and never had an issue except for slower warm ups in TX.
Joel McGregor

-----Original Message-----
From: virtualvairs-bounces at corvair.org [mailto:virtualvairs-bounces at corvair.org] On Behalf Of Bill & Chris Strickland
Subject: <VV> . Re: Single Carburetor - Hot Air

Rather than mess around with exhaust and hot oil, both of which could be hazarous, wouldn't it just be simpler to plumb some hot air to a thermostatically controlled air cleaner housing?

I mean no disrespect to folks trying to sell useless junk on eBay, but come on!  Hot air, which Corvairs have in abundance, is not a health issue nor a fire hazard should some happen to escape from your plumbing job.

[PS:  and it works!]

Bill Strickland