Hey my wheels finally came! I love them! 17 x 8 LTIII by ET Mags.

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1965 Corsa Kelmark V8 ///1965 Monza Sedan 110/PG /// Ultimate Corvair Hauler/// Don Eichstaedt's 1965 Corsa Racecar
West Michigan Corvair Club /// 1966 Corsa GTP Convertible Mid Engine 3.8L Supercharged

Finally on the ground!! for a few....

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Removed the engine, to make some progress on it

The air conditioner compressor goes in pic 1. But it is huge. So I am deleting it for now. (May do a small Saden unit later) That means I need to add an idler pulley to keep the belt routing correct. I decided to remake the aluminum pulley tower shown to accept 2 pullies, the outer smooth pulley as shown for the super charger belt, plus an additional pulley on the inside for the accessory drive to route that belt correctly.

Pic 2 So here is the new bracket with both pullies. They both spin independently of each other and makes belt routing possible.

Pic 3 Here are the finished parts. The tall one uses the spacer to hold the two pullies apart. The other part is to go where the power steering pump was since I’m not using it.

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1965 Corsa Kelmark V8 ///1965 Monza Sedan 110/PG /// Ultimate Corvair Hauler/// Don Eichstaedt's 1965 Corsa Racecar
West Michigan Corvair Club /// 1966 Corsa GTP Convertible Mid Engine 3.8L Supercharged




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Never a Unhappy customer! NEVER!

Quite nice progress you've done there.

Gotta salute the patience on a 9-year build. And the patience of your wife.

Eric C. Player
Fargo, North Dakota
MEMBER: CORSA National, Central Coast CORSA, South Coast CORSA, Vintage CORSA, Sfba CORSA, and Great Plains Corvair Club.
THEN: 1965 Monza 110, Canary Yellow - 1965 Corsa 180 Turbo, Red - 1966 Monza 110, Purple - 1967 Monza 140, Red - 1966 500 110, Black; nicknamed "Shadow" - 1965 Monza 110, Camaro Yellow; nicknamed "Silver"
NOW: 1966 Corsa 180 Turbo, Blue; nicknamed "Bluvair"
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and go on from there to matters which may have been obvious to him and God but to no one else."
-- Robert A. Heinlein, character of Daniel B. Davis, 'The Door Into Summer.'

I recently finished lots of small tasks, including the finishing of the welding on the engine cradle, building a axle shaft bearing support bracket, oil filter relocation adapter, and cleaned up and detailed the engine. Also got the engine side of the exhaust fabricated and wrapped with header wrap.

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Ryan Counterman (Moderator)
1965 Corsa Kelmark V8 ///1965 Monza Sedan 110/PG /// Ultimate Corvair Hauler/// Don Eichstaedt's 1965 Corsa Racecar
West Michigan Corvair Club /// 1966 Corsa GTP Convertible Mid Engine 3.8L Supercharged

Now I have reinstalled the engine in the car. In order to get the axles better aligned, I decided to move the engine forward an inch and up an inch, which forced me to do a little more trimming to the passenger compartment.

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Ryan Counterman (Moderator)
1965 Corsa Kelmark V8 ///1965 Monza Sedan 110/PG /// Ultimate Corvair Hauler/// Don Eichstaedt's 1965 Corsa Racecar
West Michigan Corvair Club /// 1966 Corsa GTP Convertible Mid Engine 3.8L Supercharged

Ryan,

I'm curious. Did you happen to check the supercharger for play? Most have it.
And did you end up buying and installing the kit to fix it?

Hi Tony, the supercharger has almost no play. So I decided to leave it alone for now. If it loosens up over time, it will probably be a good time to ditch the supercharger and go to a turbo charger, as that is how you really wake up these motors.

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Ryan Counterman (Moderator)
1965 Corsa Kelmark V8 ///1965 Monza Sedan 110/PG /// Ultimate Corvair Hauler/// Don Eichstaedt's 1965 Corsa Racecar
West Michigan Corvair Club /// 1966 Corsa GTP Convertible Mid Engine 3.8L Supercharged

VairKing Wrote:
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> Hi Tony, the supercharger has almost no play. So I decided to leave it alone for now. If it loosens up over time, it will probably be a good time to ditch the supercharger and go to a turbo charger, as that is how you really wake up these motors.


That's good to hear. Mine has too much play and needs the front gear set and seals.

BTW - If you ever do switch to turbo and are willing to let the supercharge go; I'll take it for my setup.
Sadly, I jumped the gun because I got the entire car for only $300.
It was only after I had it that I found out that the year I have you cannot do anything with the computer.
I have not looked into switching to a newer computer and maybe a wiring harness upgrade for mine, so I can fine tune things.

But I do like these GM supercharged V6s....

Work has resumed on this project. I hope to get it running and moving in the next few months, so I can prove it out and shake it down in the spring.

New front suspension has been installed. I need to make some brackets to fit some larger diameter brake rotors. These have plenty of performance, but do not fill the wheel. That will come later.

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1965 Corsa Kelmark V8 ///1965 Monza Sedan 110/PG /// Ultimate Corvair Hauler/// Don Eichstaedt's 1965 Corsa Racecar
West Michigan Corvair Club /// 1966 Corsa GTP Convertible Mid Engine 3.8L Supercharged




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I also worked on the fuel system a bit. A high pressure fuel pump is mounted in the tank, using a new stock fuel sender I modified a bit. A bung is added to the tank to handle the fuel return. A/N fittings and braided SS hoses make up the soft connections.

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Ryan Counterman (Moderator)
1965 Corsa Kelmark V8 ///1965 Monza Sedan 110/PG /// Ultimate Corvair Hauler/// Don Eichstaedt's 1965 Corsa Racecar
West Michigan Corvair Club /// 1966 Corsa GTP Convertible Mid Engine 3.8L Supercharged

Custom CV axles were built for the car by The Driveshaft Shop. These alone cost more than most Corvairs I have bought over the years! I think they are rated for 500 HP so should be good to go in this department.

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Ryan Counterman (Moderator)
1965 Corsa Kelmark V8 ///1965 Monza Sedan 110/PG /// Ultimate Corvair Hauler/// Don Eichstaedt's 1965 Corsa Racecar
West Michigan Corvair Club /// 1966 Corsa GTP Convertible Mid Engine 3.8L Supercharged

Cool work! The Driveshaft Shop made the carbon fiber unit in my '13 Mustang GT. I wanted to make sure it could handle the torque of the forced induction 5.0.

David Clamp


1965 Corsa convertible - 140 4spd/3.55/AM-FM

2013 Mustang GT convertible - 5.0, 6spd auto, Procharger i-1

2003 Miata SE - 6spd manual (wife's toy)

"Victory is mine!" - SG

Norman, OK

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I have been working on this car some more! I’ve been working on the trailing arms. The unboxed version (which I was planning on boxing) proved to flex under the weight of car while moving it around this summer. So I have been studying aftermarket C4 trailing arms. I have rolled a 3/16 plate of steel x 3.5 wide into a 6” diameter cylinder and welded it to the arm to stiffen and remove the flex. Then I boxed everything in with 3/16 steel just to over do it a tad.

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Ryan Counterman (Moderator)
1965 Corsa Kelmark V8 ///1965 Monza Sedan 110/PG /// Ultimate Corvair Hauler/// Don Eichstaedt's 1965 Corsa Racecar
West Michigan Corvair Club /// 1966 Corsa GTP Convertible Mid Engine 3.8L Supercharged

After the heavy welding I put them in the mill and machined the bearing mounting surface flat again.

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Ryan Counterman (Moderator)
1965 Corsa Kelmark V8 ///1965 Monza Sedan 110/PG /// Ultimate Corvair Hauler/// Don Eichstaedt's 1965 Corsa Racecar
West Michigan Corvair Club /// 1966 Corsa GTP Convertible Mid Engine 3.8L Supercharged

I wasn’t happy with how the S10 10.5” disks looked behind my 17” wheels so I took some time and tore apart my C5 Vette to see if these brakes would fit.

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Ryan Counterman (Moderator)
1965 Corsa Kelmark V8 ///1965 Monza Sedan 110/PG /// Ultimate Corvair Hauler/// Don Eichstaedt's 1965 Corsa Racecar
West Michigan Corvair Club /// 1966 Corsa GTP Convertible Mid Engine 3.8L Supercharged

I think these will fit. I have the measurements to make new adapters and will scratch this off the list.

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Ryan Counterman (Moderator)
1965 Corsa Kelmark V8 ///1965 Monza Sedan 110/PG /// Ultimate Corvair Hauler/// Don Eichstaedt's 1965 Corsa Racecar
West Michigan Corvair Club /// 1966 Corsa GTP Convertible Mid Engine 3.8L Supercharged




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