Snoozin Posted April 13, 2017 Share Posted April 13, 2017 Into it, big style. Inspiration hits all the right notes, this is gonna be excellent for sure! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
8ball Posted April 13, 2017 Share Posted April 13, 2017 There ya go. Knew i read something about different tyre pressures. Old fuzzy memory still kinda workin lol 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bomba Posted April 13, 2017 Author Share Posted April 13, 2017 4 hours ago, Threeonthetree said: Corvairs had handling issues during development, mainly due to the swing axle rear suspension among other things. GM's partial solution for this was to specify that the cars ran approximately a ten psi pressure differential front to rear. This alleviated the problem to some extent but often the owners would forget or ignore these instructions (because who puts 20psi in the front and 34psi in the back right?) and it directly led to quite a few crashes. The fallout of which was highlighted in Ralph Nader's 'Unsafe at any speed', especially once GM started really pushing the tyre pressure differential. Needless to say, it soon became apparent that this was a band aid fix to the problem. Whatever wheels and tyres you run, for your own safety please run approximately 10-16psi higher in the rear tyres than you do in the fronts. Run it with equal tyre pressures all around to compare and you'll see the difference. I've pined these things for years and nearly bought an early first generation '61 3 speed base model a year or two ago. Oh and a little true story: When the engineering team at Rootes Group in the UK were contemplating a rear engined car (later to become the Hillman Imp), they purchased a brand new Corvair and used it on their test track for evaluation. They rolled the car in moderate cornering (supposedly equal tyre pressures) and some of the occupants were pretty well injured. They then completely rejected swing axles for their upcoming Hillman Imp and instead fitted an articulated multi link rear setup. All that aside, I love these things and can't wait to see it in person someday. Good luck and I'm looking forward to the updates. Oh and the inevitable flung fan belt that these things love to do. Hey man, thanks for the info. Will definitely be taking that on board. Haha yeah the fan belts pretty wild haha. I'll keep a spare at all times I'll be keeping the the build thread up to date as things happen. Just waiting for parts then it's all on. Watch this space. Cheers! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post bomba Posted April 14, 2017 Author Popular Post Share Posted April 14, 2017 So some have asked to see pics of some of my other cars. You've probably seen 1 or 2 of them around no doubt. I've had the 46 Chevy Fleetmaster for the last 14 years or so. Its an ever evolving project. Love this thing. Recently converted to 5 stud using 55 hubs for the front and changing out the dif to a Nova dif. Doing this I converted it to open drive using a converter on the end of the original gearbox. Now its geared up to cruise a lot nicer on the open road. It still runs the original 216 dipper, never misses a beat: Then my 78 Camaro. This build has been a real eye opener haha: And the most recent other than the Corvair is the 77 Thunderbird Town Landau. Its fully specd with, from what I can gather, every factory option it can have, down to the fake luggage straps. We picked this up in Wanaka and did an epic roadtrip back to Hamilton. Loved it. The cars real tidy with 49k OG miles on the clock, been in the country since 81. Slowly putting my touch on it: Those are the current cars I have. Don't get me wrong, I don't have a lot of money haha I've put a lot of time into these and a lot of help from friends and family. Also my crazy obsession doesn't help. Sometimes its a curse haha 12 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bomba Posted April 14, 2017 Author Share Posted April 14, 2017 These are a couple cars I've had in the past. There have been others but these are the ones that meant the most... 1982 EX Lancer GSR. This thing was awesome. Factory injected turbo, 4 wheel disc, LSD blah blah blah... Loved this car, still kick myself for selling it. I still seeing it kicking around Hamilton. After it went through a few hands it looks like its found a good owner: And my 85 Cressida. Manual and had a 1g-gte coversion done when I got it but nothing else. I chucked an LSD in it, repainted it, wheels, lowered and gave it a good tidy up. Was a tidy car, I used it as a daily but had to let it go. Kick myself over this one too: Cheers, Kenny 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dave Posted April 14, 2017 Share Posted April 14, 2017 I have a pair off those cragers 13x7 if your interested in buying them 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bomba Posted April 14, 2017 Author Share Posted April 14, 2017 11 minutes ago, dave said: I have a pair off those cragers 13x7 if your interested in buying them Yes definitely! I'll PM you. Thanks! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raizer Posted April 14, 2017 Share Posted April 14, 2017 3 hours ago, bomba said: Cheers, Kenny PBR HARRRD!! /Disregard if your not ex Gizzy and I've got the wrong EX GSR in mind haha, 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bomba Posted April 15, 2017 Author Share Posted April 15, 2017 16 hours ago, Raizer said: PBR HARRRD!! /Disregard if your not ex Gizzy and I've got the wrong EX GSR in mind haha, Hahahaha you got it man! Those were the days! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
square Posted April 25, 2017 Share Posted April 25, 2017 Dont they make 18" streeters for the corvair ? Im jealous as hell Blair 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seedy Al Posted April 25, 2017 Share Posted April 25, 2017 Rad! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
66gt Posted June 14, 2017 Share Posted June 14, 2017 Very cool ride! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Bronze Posted November 30, 2017 Share Posted November 30, 2017 please add scallops or a flaked roof in a cola colour like the interior. I'd appreciate that. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kyteler Posted March 19, 2018 Share Posted March 19, 2018 Jesustittyfuckingchrist, that is beyond sick. Fuck that looks good. Nice work man. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
63Ragtop Posted March 19, 2018 Share Posted March 19, 2018 fuckin nice work indeed! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AllTorque Posted March 19, 2018 Share Posted March 19, 2018 Very cool. Did I see this on tv? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rot808 Posted March 19, 2018 Share Posted March 19, 2018 I really really really like this loooooooong whistle indeed 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yoeddynz Posted March 19, 2018 Share Posted March 19, 2018 Wow. Damn there's some paint skills going on! Ive always liked the shape of these. There's a corvoir ute that hooks about Nelson and its so sweet. Then the other day over coffee I was reading about the hillman imp development and how the designer took 'some' styling cues from the corvoir they'd been testing..... Cripes. Damn near ripped off most of the design features. It's like a corvoir that's been shrunk... Just needs a tiny Porsche engine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bomba Posted March 19, 2018 Author Share Posted March 19, 2018 14 hours ago, AllTorque said: Very cool. Did I see this on tv? Thanks man. Yeah you would've seen it on Muscle Garage on Sunday afternoons probably. That was post paint with the misses 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bomba Posted March 19, 2018 Author Share Posted March 19, 2018 1 hour ago, yoeddynz said: Wow. Damn there's some paint skills going on! Ive always liked the shape of these. There's a corvoir ute that hooks about Nelson and its so sweet. Then the other day over coffee I was reading about the hillman imp development and how the designer took 'some' styling cues from the corvoir they'd been testing..... Cripes. Damn near ripped off most of the design features. It's like a corvoir that's been shrunk... Just needs a tiny Porsche engine. Haha thanks man, a lot of time a patience haha Yeah the trucks are cool!. The Imps totally stole the styling of the Corvair. Another car that stole the Corvair stylingf was the Russian made NSU prinz. Look them up Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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