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Corvair Powerglides had a good reputation for reliability and were ordered on a large majority of Corvair passenger cars. The Powerglide shifter on the Early Model (EM) Corvairs, including all Forward Control vehicles (FCs - Vans and trucks) had a "tab" type lever mounted under the instrument panel to the right of the steering column.
The original Mirage design mated the Chevy V8 to a Corvair transaxle via a Kelmark adapter and remote shifter. The bodywork was all hand-laid fiberglass, colored in a range of gel-coat colors. Gull-wing doors were fitted to a removable top section, while the doors flip forward for entry. With curb weights as light as 1,900 lb (860 kg), the cars ...
Kelmark GT. Kelmark Engineering was an American automotive specialty shop established in 1969 and based in Okemos, Michigan.It focused on high-performance custom V8 drivetrain swaps, the modification and production of rear and mid-engined cars, and custom-built turn-key automobiles (the Kelmark GT).
For the 1968 model year, Chevrolet introduced a semi-automatic version of Powerglide marketed under the name Torque-Drive. This unit was basically Powerglide without the vacuum modulator, requiring the driver to manually shift gears between Low and High. The quadrant indicator on Torque-Drive cars was, Park-R-N-Hi-1st. The driver would start ...
The model selected weighed 13.5 lb (6.1 kg). [22] It had a 3 in (76 mm) diameter impeller and was capable of spinning at up to 70,000 rpm. [25] The turbocharged Corvair engine did not use a wastegate to limit boost pressure. Instead, boost was controlled by an exhaust system designed to create back-pressure sufficient to limit the maximum boost.
Unlike the production rear-engine Corvair, the GT engine was mounted ahead of the transaxle, resulting in a mid-engine layout. The chassis, designed by a team led by Frank Winchell, [2] featured a 92 in (234 cm) wheelbase, 16 in (41 cm) shorter than the production Corvair. The overall dimensions were similarly reduced with a length of 165 in ...
Standard transmission was a 3-speed manually shifted transaxle. Rear end of the 1962 Lakewood. In 1961 the Lakewood was available in base form as part of the Corvair Lakewood 500 and an "upscale" trim form as the Lakewood 700. In 1962 the base trim level was called Corvair Deluxe series 700 and the top-of-the line model was the Corvair Monza ...
The transaxle configuration combines the gearbox and final drive in one housing and is only built in individual cases; In the transverse direction, the gearbox and final drive are very often combined in one housing due to the much more restricted space available; Every type of transmission occurs in every type of installation.