Writing the feature on Chris Gosting’s Corvair-powered Notchback for this issue (see p21) got the cogs twisting in my brain and made me want to look a little deeper into these conversions, which had a short-lived boom in popularity in the late 1960s and early ’70s as a cheap way to give your VW a huge power hike.
These days, the main issue facing anyone wanting to put a Corvair engine into a VW will be finding a decent Corvair engine but, assuming you are able to source one, the first thing to be aware of is that the Chevrolet engine was designed to
