Bryan on Corvairs and such

I think this will be a little stream - maybe more like a creek - of conciousness.

Sunday, January 21, 2007

An Unfortunate Setback

A few club members came over today for our regular meeting, and we made the "cylinder holding tubes" out of some 1/2" copper pipe I had:



Then we pulled the #2 piston out of the engine from the blue Corsa that had dropped the #2 intake seat. Bad part - the piston top ring land has crushed enough to trap the top ring, the piston is deformed enough that the wrist pin doesn't move freely, and the barrel is cracked. If I can find a matching piston, I think I'll build the next engine with this set.




I'm not entirely sure I want to use the Isky 270 cam that's in here, so it may be for sale, along with the matching set of Source lifters.

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