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The Fifth Wheel Newsletter of Lehigh Valley Corvair Club Inc. (LVCC) the fifth wheel SEPTEMBER 2018 HTTP://WWW.CORVAIR.ORG/CHAPTERS/LVCC ESTABLISHED 1976 Inside this issue Next LVCC Meeting: 1 Wednesday 09/26/2018 Unsung Heroes: 2 Lukes and Shorman LVCC Dues Are Due 2 (Best Deal in Town!) LVCC Guys at the 4 DACC Homecoming LVCC’s John Egerton 6 at PittRace LVCC Newsletter Gets 6 Honorable Mention Korvair Kluge #1 6 by caraholic4life Local Car Shows & 8 Events Korvair Kluge #2 9 by Kevin Nash Korvair Kluge #3 9 by Corventure Dave LVCC Classified Ads 10 Cars & Parts LVCC Officer 10 Contact Information Next Meeting! Wednesday, September 26, 2018 Time 7:30 PM. Place: Lehigh and Northampton Transportation Authority Headquarters (LANta), 2nd Floor Meeting Room, 1060 Lehigh Street, Allentown , PA 18103. The Fifth Wheel is published monthly by Lehigh Valley Corvair Club Inc. (LVCC), a chartered chapter for the Cor- vair Society of America. We accept articles of interest to Corvair owners for publication. Classified advertising of interest to Corvair owners is available free of charge to all persons. Commercial advertising is also available on a fee basis. For details, email our newsletter editor, Allan Lacki, [email protected]. PAGE 2 THEFIFTHWHEEL SEPTEMBER 2018 Unsung Heroes: Lukes and Shorman Editor’s note. Folks in the Corvair Now we've finally seen one that falls community may think Ted Trevor of into the practical, possibly even neces- The actual machine work and engineer- Crown Engineering came up with the sary, class: Swapping a Corvair into a ing of these swaps was performed by idea of stuffing Corvair engines into Volkswagen. Lukes and Shorman, Porsche-VW spe- Volkswagens. cialists from Albany, California. Early It's really a natural. Both are air- swaps required dismantling of the Cor- But a good case can be made that Por- cooled, and easily maintained. The vair engine and re-working the fly- sche specialists Richie Lukes and Harry horsepower gain isn't staggering, but an wheel end of the crank. This has been Shorman did it first. In fact, their mas- increase from the VW's 36 to the stan- eliminated, with the design of a modi- ter machinist, Tom Manning, claimed dard Corvair's 80 hp (or 102 with a fied flywheel, made-up with a Porsche that Crown pirated the design of Lukes Monza engine) really gets the job done flywheel with a piece of 4140 steel and Sherman’s Vair-to-Volks adapter and makes a tiger of a heretofore kit- heli-arced into the center section and plate from them. To this day, Lukes ten. If you really want to go into orbit drilled to the bolt pattern of the Corvair and Shorman remain unrecognized in you might try the 150 hp Turbo- crank. A Lukes and Shorman cast alu- the Corvair hobby. Unsung heroes, if Charged engine. Let us know where minum adapter plate makes the actual you will…. you come down. engine swap a bolt-in proposition, to the VW transaxle. To take the added Here’s an article from the July 1962 Pioneering the swap was Bud Hopkins, load (3 times more torque) a VW Com- issue of Motor Trend magazine that long time VW enthusiast, but never mercial clutch disc, mated to a Porsche describes how Lukes and Shorman went really satisfied with performance. Bud Carrera diaphragm pressure plate, about this now-famous engine swap. installed a stock Corvair in the engine should be used. room of his Karmann-Ghia and only one trip through the 1/4-mile traps was Aside from the actual swap, a few mi- REAR ENGINE SWAPPING needed to satisfy his need, turning 80 nor modifications were made to the Placing Corvair’s Flat Six Under the mph in 17.35 seconds. One mile-per- Kombi, to aid reliability and increase Volkswagen Shell hour per hp! overall performance. None of these By Peter Biro. changes was necessary on the Ghia. Following Hopkins' Ghia swap, was Standard final drive was 5.1:1 and by Charles Coffey, Chief engineer of changing the reduction gears at the out- THE GENTLE ART OF ENGINE United Engine and Machine, makers of board ends of the rear axles this was SWAPPING seems to have become a Silvolite and Dualoy pistons. Coffey, brought up to 4.1:1. With this change national pastime. We've seen every having difficulty with mountain passes in ratio a 17 mph increase in speed was kind of swap imaginable, from stuffing on camping trips with his fully outfitted achieved at a given engine speed. Rear Corvettes into Sprites and Renaults, VW Kombi, dropped a Corvair in the tire size was changed from 6 x 40 x 15 421-inch Pontiacs into compact Tem- back of his bus, and now has the to 6 x 70 x 15. In city traffic you can pests and the latest, the 409 Chevy into strongest hill-climbing, freeway- pull without lugging at 18 mph in 4th the Chevy-II. Most swaps seem to fol- cruising camper going. Top speed gear. Speed through the gears @ 4000 low the same basic rule, "put in the with the VW before the swap was 56 rpm: 1st-29 mph, 2nd-42 mph, 3rd-55 most inches and power available, and if mph, now better than 80 mph is avail- mph, 4th-75 mph. at first it doesn't fit, make it fit." able, at 4300 rpm, with no strain at all. At the drags, fully loaded with camping LVCC Dues are Due! If you haven’t already done so, please pay up for August 2018 through July 2019. Price? Still only $10 for CORSA Members. $15 for all others. You can pay at our September meeting or mail a check to LVCC Secretary / Treasurer Dick Weidner, 2304 Main Street, Northampton, PA 18067. SEPTEMBER 2018 THEFIFTHWHEEL PAGE 3 Kombi engine compartment has much room, requires only minimum work for swap. Out- board gears were changed from 5.1:1 to 4.1:1 ratio to take advantage of hp increase. Corvair engine with Porsche flywheel and pres- sure plate in place. In foreground (left) is the Lukes and Shorman adapter plate that replaces the VW bell housing. Neat installation resembles original factory job. Swap resulted in top speed increase from 56 to 82 mph. Fully loaded camper weighs in at 2976 lbs. Against 2150 stock (unloaded). One of the more unusual projects L&S worked on was the twin-Porsche engine Indianapolis 500 race- car built by Orinda resident Al Stein. It was midget racer Stein who L&S had crewed for prior to World War II so with their former relationship and exper- tise with Porsche engines, they were the logical choice to prepare the two, 911 engines used in Stein’s unusually creation. Unfortunately, the car did not qualify for the 1966 Indy 500 although it did reach a speed of over 150 mph in practice. PAGE 4 THEFIFTHWHEEL SEPTEMBER 2018 gear at 2976 lbs., trap time was 67.5 Hopkins performed the body modifica- meet and more. It's not really located mph in 19.66 seconds. A stock VW tion by himself in a single afternoon in Detroit but instead in Plymouth, bus weighing 2150 lbs. turned 51.42 with a simple sabre saw. He first made Michigan, as distant suburb. mph in 24.27 seconds. A VW Beetle a template the shape of the Corvair en- turned 59.60 in 21.43 seconds and a gine out of cardboard, placing it in the This year, there were two special bo- VW with a 1760 cc Porsche engine VW engine compartment. The area to nuses. DACC arranged free admission turned 77.85 in 16.61 seconds. be cut away was marked with a crayon to the Ypsilanti Automotive Heritage and the metal was removed. The rear Museum with a catered lunch for eve- Surprisingly gas mileage was the same rocker panel was altered to simplify rybody no extra cost. Although the with either engine right around 24 mpg. installation and removal of the engine. Corvair Preservation Foundation Hopkins' Ghia with the Corvair gets 28 With these relatively simple body moved it's collection from Ypsilanti to mpg in combined city and highway use. changes the engine can simply be Decatur last year, the Ypsilanti mu- bolted in, the fuel lines, linkages and seum still has a small number of Cor- Corvair engine revolution is opposite to electrical connections hooked up and vairs among its collection of other cars the VW making it necessary to remove the VW-Corvair can be driven away - that were manufactured in the region, the VW transaxle and have your local fast. including old Hudsons and Kaisers. VW service department flop the ring gear. If this is not done you wind up Handling characteristics remain practi- In addition, for a mere $10 extra, tick- with four speeds reverse and one for- cally unchanged with the Ghia. Im- ets were provided to the GM Heritage ward. A late model ball-bearing type proved if anything, with the added trac- Center. Located in an 81,000 square throw-out bearing should be used in tion from the extra 45 lbs. of the Cor- foot facility in Sterling Heights, the place of the carbon type found in many vair engine. With the added weight, Center has more than 165 General Mo- VWs. rear camber is 2 degrees negative. tors vehicles on display including but not limited to the Monza GT, Monza The VW starter must be modified, also Both installations look and work just SS, Astro I and Super Spyder show because of engine rotation.
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