Water Injection Thread

[Stowe, Ted-SEA]

Ken is completely correct. I've owned many corvairs, they shared nothing
with any Buick. they did not have a chassis either. they were all rear
engined flat -6's with a transaxle.

I believe the early Buick special did have some unique features, while the
engine was in front, and it had a usual rear axle, I think the auto trans
was mounted in the rear. There was something real unique about it, but I'm
not a Buick guy.

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Ken Kelly [SMTP:kenkelly at lucent.com]
> Sent:	Wednesday, January 06, 1999 7:29 AM
> To:	diy_efi at efi332.eng.ohio-state.edu
> Subject:	Re: Water Injection Thread
> 
> Boy this thread is bouncing around.
> 
> 	The corvair had a transaxle, but was a rear engined pancake
> 6.
> 
> 	The Pontiac tempest Buick Special, and Olds f85 shared
> sheet metal, but not drive train. The Buick and F85 had a
> normal transmission/rear, while the tempest had a rear
> mounted transaxle with a flexible torque tube type
> connection from the engine.
> 
> 	The corvair and tempest didn't share a chassis.
> 		Ken
> 
> ECMnut at aol.com wrote:
> > 
> > In a message dated 1/6/99 8:33:05 AM Eastern Standard Time,
> > gderian at cybergate.net writes:
> > 
> > > Corvairs also had that setup, after all, they shared chassis with the
> 61-63
> > >  Tempest.  There are lots more Corvair parts around since they were in
> > >  production thru '69.
> > 
> > Gary,
> > what type of powertrain did the tempest use?
> > I though the Tempests were front engine..
> > Thanks,
> > Mike V