While our editors traverse the country to find the best content for those magazines, we find other oddities related to the old-car hobby that we really had no place for - until now. With this blog, we're giving you a behind-the-scenes look at what we see and what we do during the course of putting out some of the finest automotive magazines you'll ever read.
There are, certainly, easier ways to build a mid-engine V-8 Corvair.
Slide in a Toronado's UPP, for instance, or buy an off-the-shelf aftermarket transaxle to fit your preferred V-8; maybe you can figure out some shade tree mechanic solutions for retaining the Corvair transaxle. They all require some amount of fabrication, but then there's John Reynolds's approach with his 1967 Corvair, which requires substantial re-engineering of everything aft of the floorpan, but seems to be worth it in terms of the drivetrain choice: a transverse-mount LS4 from a 2006 Chevrolet Impala mated to a 4T80e from a 1996 Cadillac Deville, components he describes as plenty stout but often overlooked and thus less expensive. And then he decided to turbocharge the LS4.
Reynolds has been at it for a couple of years and has documented everything he's had to do to make the combination work over more than a dozen videos, with more to come. We've included a few highlights here, with the rest collected in a playlist on his channel.
