There has been some neat Corvair stuff jumping up on eBay recently and it has caught our attention. From some race prepped heads to this interesting engine, the air cooled flat six in these cars has never gotten as much love on our pages as it has over the last couple of weeks. The engine below is really neat because it seems to employ all the old school tricks and some of the old school parts that people have used over the years to hot rod these engines. As you read the ad you might have to employ some pronunciation skills as the company names are a little askew but from the old school AiResearch turbocharger to the truly vintage Turbonetics waste gate, this rules.
The other thing that rules is the aesthetic look of the engine. The turbo being mounted way up big and coming down over that spider looking intake manifold that is all polished is cool as hell. The way that the headers wrap under the engine, how the exhaust and waste gate plumbing are done all look spectacular.
Of course there’s a plot twist. The engine comes with no crank, rods, camshaft, lifters, or other stuff that is mildly important when it comes to make the thing run, but the block, heads, intake, turbo, etc is all good and once you hammer a bottom end together, you’ll be in business. What do you think? Deal or no deal?
eBay: This turbocharged flat six cylinder engine is old school and awesome, short parts
Aaaaaaaah…No Deal Brian! Not even a short block by any standard. Looks cool though. What’s behind door number 2 ???
I have all parts needed to make the motor complete. I have raced Corvair powered cars for 52 years and set 2 national records in the 100 yd. Sand Drags. I have over 450 Corvair items on E-Bay. Aloha Starr Cooke 619 4476788 San Diego
Hi Star,
Great engine wish i could afford it for my 64 rally Spider. Redoing a 1965 Corsa Turbo and hope to send you my 180 turbo and carb…..ho hum, cars have sat for years and i got some time with this lock down…….
Keep posting the great ebay eye candy!
David
For 5000+ he’s dreaming that’s what I’d expect it to go for with crank rods and pistons in place
It seems that during this pandemic more people are experimenting with mind altering substances. Only way to explain the pricing.
I have the guts needed also
Guys, when was the last time you built a race engine? What does a racing Porsche motor cost? Its nothing to drop 10K into making an engine designed for getting groceries to have double and even triple horsepower. The internals are crazy expensive to have made.
Its the cost of trying to make them twist up high RPM.
Um…. are those intake runners not attached to the intake ports on the heads? I’m looking on my phone, but it sure seems like they aren’t.
Yes, they are connected to the intake manifolds. Make sure you’re not mistaking the spark plug holes in the top shroud for the intake.
Intakes are “Corvair Connection” units (one per cyl bank) mounted to the modified cylinder heads.