have a 63 corvair wanting to up date the motor and would like to know
if anyone has done or thought about the possibility of a pontiac fiero motor would work thanks
If you can adapt it to the transaxle, anything will work. There's a guy in the Midnight Sun Street Rods, in Alaska, with a 455 in the back of a Corvair....looks like it came that way.
have a 63 corvair wanting to up date the motor and would like to know
if anyone has done or thought about the possibility of a pontiac fiero motor would work thanks
Uh, why a Fiero motor? Neither the Iron Duke four cylinder nor the V6 were particularly noteworthy motors. Let me guess, you already have a Fiero donor car?
Most of the V8 swaps use a different transaxle (Olds Toronado) or flip the Corvair transaxle over to mid-mount the engine. None of these are particularly easy to do and require a LOT of fabrication.
The Corvair engine is a GREAT canidate for hopping it up,ive owned 9 of them,and have a 1961 monza now. the amount of horse power you can pull out of this engine,is ONLY dependant on how deep your wallet is,swapping to a Turbo charged 180 HP engine is easy. and not too expensive.
Do you know which Corvair motor you have? In 1963 the factory options ranged from 95 to 180 hp, iirc. The easiest thing is either to rebuild the engine you have to a higher factory spec (parts are available) or find a higher-spec 'Vair motor (again, parts are available). Check out Clark's Corvair Parts (www.corvair.com).
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