Gee thanks Cody. I’m actually a fan of Corvairs and Volkswagens. Ralph Nader was an idiot. I had a 62 corvair monza that I drove like a maniac and it never killed me. I however did kill it. Also had a corvair van and a VW van. I’d like to have all of them right now. Did that guy do a build video on that bug? I’d like to know if he used the corvair transaxle or if he mated the engine to the VW one.
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I’d say if it isnt on his YouTube channel then he didn’t film it. He only started filming when his Nephew told him about YouTube.
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1000% yes vote on that. He was paid off by big monies. RIP.
Bob
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First video was the ringneck pheasant,second was a breeding pair of quail, third was the quail and pheasant. This will be a decent series there are several others I have not gotten to video yet, he feeds corn apples and pears so we get LOTS of visitors in the front yard
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I’ll ask him tomorrow if he used the VW transaxle or not. Forgot to mention that I’d do that.
OKAY so
It’s the VW transaxle.
He had to change the cam and reverse the pistons to run the engine in reverse to match rotation for the transaxle.
The distributor still turns the same rotation but to get that he changed the distributor gear.
He got the engine and an orange dune buggy for cheap because the guy before him couldn’t make it work. Swapped the Corvair engine into a rattier Beetle he had and put a Van motor in the dune buggy. Still has both.
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Sounds like a pretty crafty dude.
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Out on a service call today with my 8 year old, stopped in my favorite hole in the wall side of the road burger joint called Small Frye’s in the tiny town of fall city Washington.
My dad, brothers and I always stop in everytime we pass through town. Dad has been eating here since it was little more then a shack when he was in high school over 50 years ago. My favorite sign in a restraunt and they aren’t joking. Good and greasy!
Little man ordered there biggest, double bacon monster burger and he is struggling to take bites
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Getting harder and harder to find a place that still does their fries in fat instead of peanut oil. Taste isn’t the same.
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Or texture, fries should be crisp not mush! Now I love mashed potatoes, but mashed potatoes and fries are supposed to be different dang it!
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So that was a little shack 50 years ago? Must go a long ways to the rear now. 
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The front room still has cobble floor where it used to just be a covered area and they walled it in think whole building is 30’x10’, and they stay busy year round. Local school kids are the workers
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Oh. I thought you were talking about a little shack. Maybe 25 x 10.
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Harbor Freight never ceases to amaze me.
Engine comes with a 6000 RPM governor set by the coil and a VM22 slide carb.
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Ручна граната
First letter on the second word should have a little upward tick to signify H sound not G.
But Russians messed up the alphabet too.
Hand Grenade!!!
That’s not a very impressive engine.
Go back to the drawing board and make an infinite radius venturi on a predictable carb body
Use a 7 inch clutch not a 6…
Hey found troubled Gus the Petteroid.
And un upside down Gene jacket that says Algoma steel Inc
Make a tinfoil hat for your dog just incase…
Bad place to walk.
All the best stuff is billet and unseen.
Chinese engines don’t come like that.
Thus concludes a little trip down memory lane from a long time ago…
Don’t buy a crate engine expecting it to be anything but utility pig engine with some lipstick on it.
You have to spend a little and build a proper one.
The little black devil still exists…
I don’t own it anymore but its in a quiet suburban garage about 20 miles from me.
Its not seen a race track in 11 years…
The internet really never forgets does it?
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Think y’all will enjoy this my oldest wanted to draw me driving my truck. Didn’t know its an 8 wheeler
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Looks like one of my mockup drawings, maybe theirs is better though
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We have a North visiting up north. Jakob North arrived yesterday late afternoon. We had a great forecast for making maple syrup and that has since changed.
Today he helped me to get wifi and a coaxial cable to the sugar shack before 9am. We plan on using the sugar shack for 6 months out of the year now. I won’t need to run to the house to order things now.
Today we finished about 15 gallons of syrup and bottled it. Jakob also tapped 25 trees to put us at 675.
Here Jakob is filtering the final product and bottling.
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Man I wish we had something worth tapping here, always wanted to try making syrup
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No Birch or Walnut? Not even Red Maple instead of Sugar Maple?
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