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Originally Posted by t walgamuth
Wooohooo! I knew the builder had to be an aircraft engineer! I love the concept...too bad the corvair engines were so poorly developed by GM.
If I could find one with a diesel engine I would bite!
I got over fifteen mpg today on the way home from northern Indiana with my dodge diesel and the 30' award trailer.....I drove all secondary roads with a maximum speed of 65 because I had a low tire on my truck.
It was assisted by a tail wind though....
I would expect to get 14 usually driving that speed.
I bet you would have a tough time going 65 at all with a corvair motor.
(This is just three weeks after seeing seven corvairs at the autocross in Indy at the sixteenth street speedway!)
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It only weighs 4500 lbs empty but that's a lot of air to push out of the way. Very cool though, one hopes these people don't have major dramas with the engines.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevrolet_Corvair_engine
A diesel flat six. THAT would be a nifty engine. I wonder why flat engines have not been that big of an item?
An why didn't the H design engine ever catch on?
I mean the
BRM H16 seemed like such a practical engine.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BRM_British_Racing_Motors_V16