25 Apr 12 08:15, TOM WALKER wrote to ROY WITT:   
      
      
    RW>> TW> Particualrlt if workign on a Corvair engine. I had three of   
    RW>> those. A   
    RW>> TW> 1963 Van, A 1965 Corsa and later I put a corvair engine and   
    RW>> automatic   
    RW>> TW> transmission in a 1971 VW van.   
      
    RW>> Was Ralph Nader right about those cars? IMNSHO, I thought he was   
    RW>> full of crap...   
      
    TW> He basiclly was. Not since a Rear Biased Car handles different then   
    TW> one with the engine up front if you got Stupid you could get yourself   
    TW> in deep Trouble. But mostly less then some of the other rear engine   
    TW> car of that day.   
      
   I kind of figured he was. With VW and Porshe being around for a few   
   decades before the Corvair came along, they certainly didn't have any   
   problems.   
      
    TW> And once you got the feel of driving thme on a short tight course   
    TW> they could embarase many Corvette and Camaro drivers.   
      
   I used to pick up and deliver for service a 63 or 64 Spyder convertible   
   for a customer of the station where I worked part-time. The drive included   
   a winding road and a wooden bridge crossing over some RR tracks. I enjoyed   
   the drive to and fro and thought the car was a sweetheart. Of course, it   
   wasn't mine, so I didn't push it so hard that I would lose control.   
      
   At the time I drove a 55 Chevy and they didn't handle very well at all.   
      
    TW>  OF course they left you in the dust if there was much length to the   
    TW> straights.   
      
   Depending on the driver, of course. I think my 63 Corvette and all of the   
   Z28s I've owned could handle better than the Corvair.   
      
    RW>> TW> I had a set of Valve covers cut in half for adjusting the valves   
    RW>> on TW> those engines.   
      
    RW>> Didn't they have rockers like the V8s, where you could buy a set of   
    RW>> spring clips to cover the pushrod oil hole?   
      
    TW> The valve cover solution was far less messy.   
      
   Since it was a flat six, I would imagine so. I've thought about doing the   
   valve cover cut for a V8, but never took the time to do something like   
   that. The clips make valve adjustments a far less messy job.   
      
      
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