Engine Assembly

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The picture above shows the beginning stages of assembly on my Corvair engine. The cam shaft with safety gear, and crank shaft are in-place with the case halves bolted together using ARP bolts and nuts.

This shot of the rod assemblies shows the batch numbers printed on the sides of the rods. These assemblies are all identical in weight +\- 0 grams.

This exploded view of the rod shows its excellent quality and the use of ARP bolts.

In this photo, I have compressed the rings and inserted the rod/piston assemblies into the cylinders as per the shop manual. On four of the cylinders I had to sand off the paint around the skirts so the cylinders would fit into the case. Oops!!

The above two photos show the case with the rod/cylinder assemblies installed and the rods bolted to the crank. The tubes and old rocker arm bolts are used to temporarily secure the cylinders to the case until the heads are installed. Without these in place, the cylinders would pop out of the case when the crank is turned.

Just a side view of the case and cylinders.

This is a great shot of the inside area of the case. I am amazed as to how close and tight the GM engineers designed everything. For the unsuspecting on lookers, I spent several hours filing, sanding, and grinding the aluminum flashing away from the internal areas of my case.

This is my case with the front cover installed. This is also one of the first pieces that I fabricated myself. The cover is made from the old bell housing, cutting, grinding, filing to shape and then painting. A little bit of chrome on the Allen head fasteners and washers and she's good to go!.

Here I have installed the heads, rocker arms with hardware, push rods, and push rod tubes.

This is a rare shot of me working in the shop, adding the final touches to my valve adjustment.

These two photos show the installation of the oil pickup tube and oil pan. These pieces are from "Fly Corvair.com"

These are shots of my nearly completed Corvair Engine!

My valve covers came out "Sweet"!