I love your Corvair. In 1965 I bought a Corvair Corsa 180hp Turbo from the dealeshio I was working for. It had been one of the owners demo. At 900 miles the transmission went out, but they fixed under warranty. 900 miles later, it went out again, but they would not warrant it because they said I was drag racing it. (True, one time, Turned a 14.88 @ 88 mph) So i paid for the repair. Long story short, a fellow Corvair owner and I went down to vist Don Yenkos dealership to see the Yenko Stinger he was building. He took us out for a ride in a stage II and impreesed the crap out of us. He then took my Corsa out for a drive, and was really impressed with its performance. We had done a few simple tricks like insulating the exhaust up to the turbo, elliminating the muffler, and screwed the flaps on the heat exchangers shut to keep the heat up. We told him about the gearbox issues, and he said if it happend again to call him. Well at 900 miles again, the tranny let go. His dealership came up to where my car was sitting along side the highway, picked it up, took it back to Cannonsburg,(30 plus miles) and repaired it at no cost. Turned uot the differential was like a trapazoid, putting stress on the input shat, and after 900 miles would break and fall into the transmission. He was my hero from that day forward. And I am a Mopar guy.
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