Truck motor

[joe moore]

Has anyone ever seen this motor 10 cylinders. would be great in a truck.

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[TimeMachineParadox]

Not sure if this is where you got those pictures from, but I did some googling and found this article with some more pictures:
https://www.curbsideclassic.com/automot ... cylinders/
Seems like it would've been a pretty cool engine if it had been implemented.

[66vairguy]

The "modular" air cooled engine is discussed in a few books. Basically Ed Cole wanted to reduce the cost of the Corvair engine (costs more than the Falcon or Valiant engines) by allowing a modular concept to build small, med, large engines from the same basic parts for different car models. There was even a FWD version!!

Reality set in because GM was starting to have profit issues. Also GM realized they had to start dealing with emissions that are more difficult to meet with an air cooled engine. Also the cost of changing all the Chevrolet (or other divisions) to a new powertrain was too great at the time.

Add to that the changes for safety, expensive gasoline, and the growing popularity of Japanese cars and GM was in financial trouble by the late 70's. The fist "GM car by committee" to reduce engineering costs and streamline the divisions was the "Vega" and we know how that went.

Great fun to speculate, but the air cooled modular engine was never going to succeed due to changing times.

[joe moore]

The "modular" air cooled engine is discussed in a few books. Basically Ed Cole wanted to reduce the cost of the Corvair engine (costs more than the Falcon or Valiant engines) by allowing a modular concept to build small, med, large engines from the same basic parts for different car models. There was even a FWD version!!

Reality set in because GM was starting to have profit issues. Also GM realized they had to start dealing with emissions that are more difficult to meet with an air cooled engine. Also the cost of changing all the Chevrolet (or other divisions) to a new powertrain was too great at the time.

Add to that the changes for safety, expensive gasoline, and the growing popularity of Japanese cars and GM was in financial trouble by the late 70's. The fist "GM car by committee" to reduce engineering costs and streamline the divisions was the "Vega" and we know how that went.

Great fun to speculate, but the air cooled modular engine was never going to succeed due to changing times.

Great information. Now is their a motor or block around some where??? just imagine that engine in a greenbriar or truck .

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[66vairguy]

The "modular" air cooled engine is discussed in a few books. Basically Ed Cole wanted to reduce the cost of the Corvair engine (costs more than the Falcon or Valiant engines) by allowing a modular concept to build small, med, large engines from the same basic parts for different car models. There was even a FWD version!!

Reality set in because GM was starting to have profit issues. Also GM realized they had to start dealing with emissions that are more difficult to meet with an air cooled engine. Also the cost of changing all the Chevrolet (or other divisions) to a new powertrain was too great at the time.

Add to that the changes for safety, expensive gasoline, and the growing popularity of Japanese cars and GM was in financial trouble by the late 70's. The fist "GM car by committee" to reduce engineering costs and streamline the divisions was the "Vega" and we know how that went.

Great fun to speculate, but the air cooled modular engine was never going to succeed due to changing times.

Great information. Now is their a motor or block around some where??? just imagine that engine in a greenbriar or truck .

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There are a few sites with some good information, but I don't have them handy. Look for the OHC Corvair engine with shaft driven fans!! I believe one still exists in a museum. It was an impressive design, EXCEPT for one issue -- the engine was capable of delivering a lot of power at high RPM, but the fan/cooling HP load was huge at high RPM negating part of the HP gain at higher RPM. The design might have been refined to work better, but the wildly successful Mustang convinced GM to cancel the Corvair OHC engine (plus the 3rd Gen Coravir) and go with the Camaro. As they say -- the rest is history.