I want to build the most EVIL plane EVER !!!

VW?
Harold
KD5SAK


"Morgans" wrote in message
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"john smith" wrote

I'll take a guess...
"UNSAFE AT ANY SPEED", by Ralph Nader

I knew that was coming.

What people do not widely know, is that he printed a retraction, saying
that the problems were fixed, '63 and later. It had to do with the fact
that the rear axles only had one U-joint, at the transaxle. After they
put in two per side, and made the wheels travel straight up and down, they
were fine.

Bonus points. What rear engine air cooled engine car never put the two
extra U-joints per side in, and in some parts of the world, are still
produced that way?
--
Jim in NC

"kd5sak" wrote in message
. com...
VW?

Ding Ding Ding! We have a winner!!!

It wasn't a very hard question, but you got it! How come Nader didn't write
a book about them. The Corvair was three times as crashworthy as a VW Bug,
too.
--
Jim in NC

Morgans wrote:


"kd5sak" wrote in message
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VW?

Ding Ding Ding! We have a winner!!!

It wasn't a very hard question, but you got it! How come Nader didn't
write
a book about them. The Corvair was three times as crashworthy as a VW
Bug, too.
About 2 or 3 weeks ago the final VW Type 1 engined vehicle left the assembly
line in South America (Brazil I think). They still used it in the 'Bus' So
new cases were still available on the open market. That will probably end
shortly.
John

Didn't the SuperBeetle have a better (non-swing axle) rear suspension?

The two-U-joint half shafts on the 65 and later Corvair was borrowed from
the Corvette suspension of the same era. Lowered the roll center and
eliminated the jacking effect of the swing axles. Once the tuck that is
generally characteristic of most swing axles was eliminated, the early
Corvair became a very controllable car near the limit. I found (on the '62
Monza that I had before the '65) that substituting much stiffer adjustable
shocks in the back fixed most of the problem. Monroe "Adjustamatic"
(couldn't afford Konis) set to 3 (stiffest) on the back and 1 (softest) on
the front made the car completely controllable on the skid pad. Of course
you had to have the tire pressures right, and five plus turns lock-to-lock
on the steering made you really busy, but that was all that was necessary.
If only GM had been willing to accept a (slightly) harsher ride.

--
Bob (Chief Pilot, White Knuckle Airways)


"Morgans" wrote in message
...

"kd5sak" wrote in message
. com...
VW?

Ding Ding Ding! We have a winner!!!

It wasn't a very hard question, but you got it! How come Nader didn't
write a book about them. The Corvair was three times as crashworthy as a
VW Bug, too.
--
Jim in NC

On Sun, 8 Jan 2006 16:30:43 -0500, "Morgans"
wrote:


The Corvair was three times as crashworthy as a VW Bug,
too.

ACCORDING TO WHOM, oh wise (ass) one? g


- Barnyard BOb -

The Corvair was three times as crashworthy as a VW Bug,
too.

ACCORDING TO WHOM, oh wise (ass) one? g


- Barnyard BOb -

Why, according to me, the group's foremost authority on the Corvair, of
course! g

The VW always made me edgy, just from looking down at that thin little door.
Then I pulled the interior trim panel off and looked at the structure of the
door, and got really afraid!
--
Jim in NC

kd5sak wrote:
VW?
Harold
KD5SAK


"Morgans" wrote in message
...

"john smith" wrote


I'll take a guess...
"UNSAFE AT ANY SPEED", by Ralph Nader

I knew that was coming.

What people do not widely know, is that he printed a retraction, saying
that the problems were fixed, '63 and later. It had to do with the fact
that the rear axles only had one U-joint, at the transaxle. After they
put in two per side, and made the wheels travel straight up and down, they
were fine.

Bonus points. What rear engine air cooled engine car never put the two
extra U-joints per side in, and in some parts of the world, are still
produced that way?

VW ditched swing-arm rear suspension bug in 1979 for US models. In the
rest of the world they were sold both ways. Also 2003 was the last year
for the aircooled bug, they are no more...

Also Raplh Nader is unsafe at any speed.

Tony