63 Corvair - Air Cooled Life - Discussion

[bomba]

Discussion thread for my Corvair... Cheers!

Link to Project Thread

Inspiration:

[AllTorque]

Super rad. 

If you slam it on Supremes you will be my new hero. 

[bomba]

5 minutes ago, AllTorque said:

Super rad. 

If you slam it on Supremes you will be my new hero. 

Haha, definitely want to slam it but on Cragar's. Just finding 4 spoke Crager's is proving quite hard. Early days though...

[chasinthemirage]

Looking forward too seeing this slammed, such a cool looking car! Can't get Cheviots or something for it instead?

[KKtrips]

Rad - also get adapters to go to a more conventional 5 stud pattern for American style wheels.

 

[igor]

Thought those things were extinct.

[KKtrips]

I think you are allowed bolt on to 20mm wide. I could be wrong though.

[8ball]

Will be useless to you if you slam it.

But i heard if you run a different tyre pressure in the rear (4-5psi ?)higher it helps the straight line stability of these things.

But if you slam it ive got no idea if that still applies lol.

Im sure high speed isn't the main interest in a low rider haha.

[bomba]

24 minutes ago, chasinthemirage said:

Looking forward too seeing this slammed, such a cool looking car! Can't get Cheviots or something for it instead?

Me too haha. Yeah I could but there's something about 4 spoke Cragar's. I won't be happy 'til I have some haha

[bomba]

20 minutes ago, k-trips said:

Rad - also get adapters to go to a more conventional 5 stud pattern for American style wheels.

 

Yeah man, that's definitely an option. Where can i find them?

[bomba]

13 minutes ago, 8ball said:

Will be useless to you if you slam it.

But i heard if you run a different tyre pressure in the rear (4-5psi ?)higher it helps the straight line stability of these things.

But if you slam it ive got no idea if that still applies lol.

Im sure high speed isn't the main interest in a low rider haha.

Yeah she'll be a cruiser. Thanks for the heads up on the tyre pressures.

Cheers man

[1963 AP5]

Just in case you haven't seen it already.

[KKtrips]

Or option A  http://www.jegs.com/i/Cragar/260/1422040402/10002/-1

$500 US plus some freight (or get them to put into @chris r's van that is coming from USA to NZ fairly soon)

I know it says golf cart wheel but Cragar list those wheels as 965lb load rating - so unless a Corvair is heavier than 3900lbs with a driver, 3 hookers, a boot load of liquor and a full tank of gas then you're golden.

http://www.cragarwheel.com/wheels/wheelsdetails/cragar-series-410c-ss-golf-wheel

 

[bomba]

19 minutes ago, k-trips said:

Or option A  http://www.jegs.com/i/Cragar/260/1422040402/10002/-1

$500 US plus some freight (or get them to put into @chris r's van that is coming from USA to NZ fairly soon)

I know it says golf cart wheel but Cragar list those wheels as 965lb load rating - so unless a Corvair is heavier than 3900lbs with a driver, 3 hookers, a boot load of liquor and a full tank of gas then you're golden.

http://www.cragarwheel.com/wheels/wheelsdetails/cragar-series-410c-ss-golf-wheel

 

Yeah I have looked at those. It's cutting it close with the car at 3862lbs. Still, I'll keep them in mind. Pretty cool. I'd just have to check if they can do the stub pattern in 4x4.5 or find adapters etc...

Cheers though man

 

[kyteler]

Just going off my terrible memory but did @73crownwagon not have something similar to that wheel wise on his Vega?  ..at some point? 

Good project and plans though,  I approve.  You see the pic I put in the lowrider thread? 

[73crownwagon]

Sorry I walked into alot of spam can someone give me the jist  and I'll comment accordingly 

[bomba]

2 minutes ago, kyteler said:

Just going off my terrible memory but did @73crownwagon not have something similar to that wheel wise on his Vega?  ..at some point? 

Good project and plans though,  I approve.  You see the pic I put in the lowrider thread? 

Cheers man! There's a lowrider thread?! Haha I'll have to find it.

[bomba]

2 minutes ago, 73crownwagon said:

Sorry I walked into alot of spam can someone give me the jist  and I'll comment accordingly 

haha @kyteler mentioned you may have had some 4 spoke Cragar's or similar at some stage?

[kyteler]

[73crownwagon]

Ah right I think I understand. So Vega and monza are 4 by 4 inch pattern and I believe some corvairs as well.  So your pretty screwed for wheels in nz unless you want Morris minor wheels I think??