Six of the best?

If the idea of putting a non-VW engine in your VW appals you, move along. If not, spare some thought for Chevrolet’s Corvair

Words & Pics: Mark Walker

Writing the feature on Chris Gosting’s Corvair-powered Notchback for this issue (see p21) got the cogs twisting in my brain and made me want to look a little deeper into these conversions, which had a short-lived boom in popularity in the late 1960s and early ’70s as a cheap way to give your VW a huge power hike. These days, the main issue facing anyone wanting to put a Corvair engine into a VW will be finding a decent Corvair engine but, assuming you are able to source one, the first thing to be aware of is that the Chevrolet engine was designed to run the opposite way to the VW engine. Some call it backwards, but it would be more correct to say the crankshaft rotates the opposite way.…

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VolksWorld (Digital) - 1 Issue, June 2024

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