Corvair Forum

Here's what my '60 plate light looks like in case it's a help to anyone.

If your car was originally a 4 spd then the rear body mount will have a cutout to accommodate the longer trans. I don't believe it was, most likely came from New York with the intention to be as it was stamped YD. On paper, it should have been, but probably was not. However, the rear body mount on ...

In lapping the valves I found that the valve springs have inner damper springs as is consistent in High Performace (and Turbo) models before 63. The standard 80 HP 1960-1963 had no inner damper spring (part 6256838). This is not to say in my particular case they were never swapped out but having a Y...

I'm out here in Queen Creek, wondering if any of these have fairly complete power trains at all, even though they're not running.

jimbrandberg wrote: ↑Fri Apr 05, 2024 7:43 pm Okay I'll think of it as found as well and not worry about digging mine out.
Jim Brandberg
Isanti, MN
CorvairRepair.com

Thanks for the offer though, knowing my luck it will get lost in the shipping so you may not be out of the woods yet lol

Looks like vairmech has sent me another Cylinder was nice enough to send a picture with a caliper of the size and it looks correct. So I am going to mark this as found and I think finally I may be getting something that will work! Thank you so much! It's been a bit of a journey.. I started out calli...

Is the 2nd picture a Clark's cylinder? No, that is a cylinder that I sent to Jeremiah. NOT a Clark's cylinder. I wasn't going to say where I got it.. but you did do a great job, it does almost look new. I think the question is (at least mine is) the Cylinder you sent looks different than my 1960 Cy...

I remember reading somewhere that towing a Corvair is hard on the transmission as in neutral lubrication doesn't get spread around well enough and that you should not tow more than 150 miles is this true only for the Power Glide or is it not true at all?

Maybe an older one? I haven't been around long enough to know if their design changed, but it doesn't look like their current offering, but also looks different then my 60 as Ken already pointed out (Thanks Ken). So I'm wondering where they came from as well, I now have a few. They'd work well for a...

Just happy all the damage happened to the jug and not the head. Head cleaned up nice, jug.. not so much.

I don't think so it's pretty gnarly. but if looking at the image above you think there's something I can do, I'll give it a try.

Looking for a Cylinder Jug for 1960, not just a "full-finned" jug that looks like a 1960, but an actual cylinder jug for a 1960 that is still bored at 3.37 instead of the 61 and later size of 3.44. Thought I had a few options lined up but ended up all being 3.44. These for some reason seem...

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Put a 4-speed in it so future owners can say "look, they did make a '60 with a 4-speed" but mainly because that is the best setup for a Corvair and really increases the fun factor over the awful 3-speed. Would love to have a 4-speed and some of my interest here is trying to gauge how that...

I did see the Bob Helt reference for the YD Engine code for the 95 HP with a 4 speed transmission. Yeah Bob Helt has a paragraph in Classic Corvair (I just bought it because of Craig's post) his 9th edition on page 18 that talks about the 1960 95 HP being released mid year. It has "a special h...

Something I didn't see mentioned is that sometimes the guy stamping things made a mistake and sometimes the person writing the charts made a mistake. I have several blocks with codes that don't match anything and I also have some heads with casting numbers that don't match anything. I bought the he...