CorvAircraft> Cranks!

[Dave Morris "BigD"]

At 11:37 AM 7/19/2006, you wrote:

>I didn't know that there were GM-nitrided cranks out there.  How can one
>determine that so I could try to locate one?  It seems to me that if GM put
>so much R&D into this motor, they probably did a good job with the nitriding
>too...?

Can you do a .10/.10 regrind on a crank that is factory nitrided?  Do 
you lose the nitriding?

>... his recommendations should not be taken likely.  Would this not apply
>to Corvairs also?  I intend to run mine with a wooden Sterba.  Couldn't
>hurt, right?  What do we know about the props on WW's test cases?

WW prefers wood Sensenich now, although in the beginning he thought 
Warp Drives would be OK.

Dave Morris