If you are at all familiar with the old CORV-V8 conversion you may have heard of Clarks Corvair Parts. ( I'll get to this in a moment.) Keep reading...
Well I have a 69 valkyrie gtx (the good x frame style, not a vw pan kit, or parrarel rear frame) and I want to start down the old path of getting it sorted out and placed together to start fabricating. I am going to be buidling a cage, and an all aluminum cockpit for obvious safety reasons( if you have ever seen an old fiberfab kit you sit on fiberglass, which is all that seperates you from 100plus mph pavement).
I need a transaxle, duh! I need a good direction to go in to start this off and begin collecting the nessasary parts to start building. I have $$, not a lot but I also have good credit cards, ha!!!
Anyways I have been researching transaxles for about 7 months now since buying the car and cannot find a good rationale, reasonable explanation of what the best bang for the buck build, transaxle to go with. I am not concerned with length or ogiginal appearnace, nor how many gears I have. I want something reasonable $$$, by that I mean not the $7500 for the zF on ebay right now as we speak, search for ZF and you'll find it, $7500 BUY IT Now, and the guys not messing around, I've tried to talk him down. There' also a rolled pantera NR with the 1st bid set at 9500 I think. Now that's a deal, the whole parts car for 10k. I wish I had $$$, now anyways back to the CORV-8 thing.
Clarks corvair made a kit to adapt a saginaw transmission form the camaro's and such to corvair diff, They also carry 4spider diff kit and reinforced 4.11 gear, stock ratio r+p and a 3.08 i'd love to buy. However this kit requires the remachining of a saginaw mainshaft to accept the corvair diff. I located 14 of these and I am going to purchase them and send them to Clarks Corvair. He will in return cut me a check for the core $ and have them remachined. I will then buy one after it's remachining, maybe two and get the kit to adapt the strong saginaw trans to a corvair inverted and flipped differential case. This leaves me with a serviceable trans and adjustable ratio diff for 1/2 the price of anything else out there. The kit is $800 including remachining of the main shaft. Diff's and replacement parts are priced pretty reasonalbe like most r+p for common vehicles. Bellhousings and clutch components not a prob, stock chevy stuff. This setup I would think with the reinforced corvair diff (spider kit, machined billet carrier for diff ect.) would handle up to 400 hp. or more?
Can anyone give me more information on this, has anyone had a v8-corvair or even heard about this kit, clarks corvair parts has a site, and an online catalog to referance, just google it.
I am going to do it becasue I have little $ and I am tired of looking at the car!! Instead of driving it.
Someone either tell me this is the worst idea in the world, or sell me a ZF for $5000 or I dunno, that's why I'm here.
Any comments, idea's or a good $ on a trans that I can actually use, 930 4spd?, zf? , ???
All responses welcomed and appreaciated. Someone put me down the path to get started. I know there is a lot of knowledge and experience in this forum, years of building, trial and error, ect. Someone knows what to do, maybe even has some parts for sale. I am searching for knowledge and looking to buy speed!!
Thank you again!!!
Ryan
Well I have a 69 valkyrie gtx (the good x frame style, not a vw pan kit, or parrarel rear frame) and I want to start down the old path of getting it sorted out and placed together to start fabricating. I am going to be buidling a cage, and an all aluminum cockpit for obvious safety reasons( if you have ever seen an old fiberfab kit you sit on fiberglass, which is all that seperates you from 100plus mph pavement).
I need a transaxle, duh! I need a good direction to go in to start this off and begin collecting the nessasary parts to start building. I have $$, not a lot but I also have good credit cards, ha!!!
Anyways I have been researching transaxles for about 7 months now since buying the car and cannot find a good rationale, reasonable explanation of what the best bang for the buck build, transaxle to go with. I am not concerned with length or ogiginal appearnace, nor how many gears I have. I want something reasonable $$$, by that I mean not the $7500 for the zF on ebay right now as we speak, search for ZF and you'll find it, $7500 BUY IT Now, and the guys not messing around, I've tried to talk him down. There' also a rolled pantera NR with the 1st bid set at 9500 I think. Now that's a deal, the whole parts car for 10k. I wish I had $$$, now anyways back to the CORV-8 thing.
Clarks corvair made a kit to adapt a saginaw transmission form the camaro's and such to corvair diff, They also carry 4spider diff kit and reinforced 4.11 gear, stock ratio r+p and a 3.08 i'd love to buy. However this kit requires the remachining of a saginaw mainshaft to accept the corvair diff. I located 14 of these and I am going to purchase them and send them to Clarks Corvair. He will in return cut me a check for the core $ and have them remachined. I will then buy one after it's remachining, maybe two and get the kit to adapt the strong saginaw trans to a corvair inverted and flipped differential case. This leaves me with a serviceable trans and adjustable ratio diff for 1/2 the price of anything else out there. The kit is $800 including remachining of the main shaft. Diff's and replacement parts are priced pretty reasonalbe like most r+p for common vehicles. Bellhousings and clutch components not a prob, stock chevy stuff. This setup I would think with the reinforced corvair diff (spider kit, machined billet carrier for diff ect.) would handle up to 400 hp. or more?
Can anyone give me more information on this, has anyone had a v8-corvair or even heard about this kit, clarks corvair parts has a site, and an online catalog to referance, just google it.
I am going to do it becasue I have little $ and I am tired of looking at the car!! Instead of driving it.
Someone either tell me this is the worst idea in the world, or sell me a ZF for $5000 or I dunno, that's why I'm here.
Any comments, idea's or a good $ on a trans that I can actually use, 930 4spd?, zf? , ???
All responses welcomed and appreaciated. Someone put me down the path to get started. I know there is a lot of knowledge and experience in this forum, years of building, trial and error, ect. Someone knows what to do, maybe even has some parts for sale. I am searching for knowledge and looking to buy speed!!
Thank you again!!!
Ryan