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Was it SCAT that had the manifold setups for these. One of the VW modifier shops used to sell different manifold setups for the Corvair engines. Can't recall now, but maybe someone could search the old Hot VW's magazines...
 
J.C.Whitney used to sell the 4 barrel setups. Long time ago tho.
 
JCWhitless had a LOT of goodies "back in th' day". I kinda miss some of their junk at times.

A fella who taught at Case-Western was a pal of me Old Man... had a Corvair (a couple of 'em, actually) and ran Weber IDF's. Thing was astoundingly quick. 'course he had pulled the whole thing down, balanced it and set it up well. Thompson dragstrip on Sundays and would run within an inch of beating big bore Corvettes with th' thing.

Physics Prof who's wife disallowed him "real" (road) racing after the first kid was born. He had a BIG wall full of trophies anyhow.
 
"Back in the Day" It was Warshawsky and Co and J.C.Whitney. Both out of the same building in Chicago. Carried a lot of LBC parts, VW parts then.
 
Yup. A city block of Chi-town! Bro's-in-law, from th' "rumor mill" info...
 
Crown sold lots of Corvair stuff, and conversion kits to put them in VW bugs , Buses, Ghias etc
Scat sold a few things

then you had the full Corvair shops like Otto
 
Very interesting site there.
 
Yeah Buddy!! The genunie Fitch's and Yenkos bring big bucks for Corvairs. Recently a yenko sold for the high 20Ks. Not priced as well as Yenko camaros, but still... Since my car is a cheesy 500 in the first place, I would have no problem cloning either one of those. As time goes on, I will see what turns up in the way of parts. All the *real* performance parts seem to be the holy grail stuff tho, so some thinking outside the box may have to be done. One of my customers dropped off his wrecked Bonneville SSEi (Supercharged!!) to strip and sell what we can. I have dibs on the supercharger, and the 16" wheels. How about a plain jane stripper car, with blower... Wheeee. I could have a new hobby of picking on ricer cars around here.
 
THAT'D do th' job, Jesse!!! They wouldn't know what hit 'em! :thumbsup:

AFAIC the Corvair was the last of the true American "sportscars". Nader be dammed. Drivers were th' issue, NOT th' machines.
 
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