Deadwolf wrote: ↑Mon Feb 01, 2021 6:45 pm
flat6_musik wrote: ↑Mon Feb 01, 2021 6:06 pm
Aluminum master cylinder and maybe Wildwood brakes. Front and rear deck lids from fiberglass, and 'glass bumpers if available (aluminum brackets too).
I'm not sure if they make fiberglass hood and deck lids for Early models. It seems most fiberglass accessories are for late models. But I think I did see fiberglass front fenders, but that would be a long term plan as I think you would be cutting out structure with that. With that said though I might be able to skin them down and make them into pin on applications. I don't suppose anyone knows if they make an Aluminum or plastic fuel cell that fits the factory location?
I thought I had a picture of my fiberglass trunk lid. Clarks used to offer these, and I managed to buy mine through Clarks. It weighs 20 lbs vs the stock steel one at 40lbs. additional weight reduction comes from removing the torsion springs to open the hood. The early rear engine lid only weighs 20lbs, so on this it might be easier to get it lighter by liposuction... remove the rain gutters and excess material.
One thing that is frequently overlooked when doing a hotted up turbo is INTAKE FLOW!! by far, the most plugged up part of the whole thing is that woosy little pea shooter intake cross over manifold! holy moly it is small!! It is sized okay for around 10psi on a stock engine, but when you turn the boost up to 20psi, the turbo has to put out 25 psi to read 20 at the intake manifold on the head!! 2 1/4 id is about as small as you really ever want to go on that, most blow throughs use 2.5 id, but now all the flow loss is at the carburetor, because of the throttle, choke and venturis and the carb pad opening. Those small valve heads flow 30% more just from opening up the carb pads from the stock 1.2" to 1.5". Amazingly enough, the 140 heads are equally plugged up at the carburetor pads, because they are the same i.d.... these heads will flow almost 50% more air when the carb pad openings are bored out to 1.5", and this is almost as much as individual runners will do!! Always remember, it aint boost that makes power, its how much airflow you are making at a given boost level that makes power, and on all stock Corvair turbos, the intake cross over manifold is the biggest restriction of all!