Corvair weekend

Had a good weekend - soccer and baseball on Saturday, then Sunday our local Corvair club's fall tour in the Greenbrier. We even dropped the kids off so it was just us and the dog, on a nice tour through the Virginia hills. One time it's good to be the last car is on a tour like this, we got to watch the other Corvairs the whole time, and catch the reactions of folks when our little parade went by. Best was a couple of kids, you could see one saying "What!?!?" as we passed

The 110 for the '66 Corsa is coming along, it's (I hope) a ready to go longblock so I'm just cleaning and resealing. Corvair engines are generally pretty durable, so I'm hoping it runs ok, so far everything looks good inside. There were the usual leaks and I'm putting in new crank seals since I figure the old ones are fairly tired. I got the last of the gaskets and seals done today, so next I'll deflash the heads and then start putting shrouds on. I'd like to be installing the engine sometime early November - hopefully I'll have a little more time to work then since the kids' sports seasons will be over.

A little progress...

I set this up to have a place for posting random thoughts where they'll be visible in one place eventually. Although I like writing articles for my static web site http://autoxer.skiblack.com, this may prove to be a way to get quick things up.

Anyway, the 110 for the blue '66 "parts car" is progressing. It's fun to see the look on someone's face on referring to that car as a "parts" car since it's so solid. I don't intend to have it hauled away to a crusher, but since I bought it for the engine the "parts" moniker seems appropriate. The past weekend saw the bellhousing go back on, all that's left to the reseal job is the oil pan and rear main seal.

We have the local club's fall tour this weekend as well, I'm not sure how much I'll get done, but it really pays to chip away at a project like this. Finding 4 hours is tough, but 30 minutes here and there adds up.

--Bryan