Heading to Corvair Springfest 2023 with the FLOODED 1965 Corvair + brake and wheel upgrades! 

We had a BLAST at Corvair Springfest in Helen, GA. It was so nice to meet so many of our followers and they even asked me to speak briefly at the event! I have so many ideas for the car now, and you'll see them in future Corvair videos on the channel. Thank you again for all the support, and we hope to continue to bring more classics back to life in the future. Sean & Christie

Those Corvairs keep getting nicer every year!

These cars are so timeless. To me a TRUE American classic. My first car at 16 in 1976, and still the best all these years later. Love the sound.

Great memories of road trips with my late wife and the 62 black with red interior Corsair.

That sounded great accelerating onto the highway!

Nice job on the brakes. Also thanks for filming the show. It’s nice to see these old cars.

Its been awesome watching you bring this car back to life and I bought my 65 Monza from Jasper Georgia a few years back from the original owners and I brought her back to Texas and drive it almost everyway around town. I have learned alot from watching your channel and Thanks for all the hard work!

Corsa dash! That's rad

Righteous prep, trip & video, Sean!

That was great! Thanks for taking us along!

The dual circut brakes began in 1967, the '66 was exactly like the '65.

I have a ‘66 with a single master, might have been a mid-year change.

Pretty cool that there are some Corvair shows out there. Looking forward to getting mine out for its first show in a couple of months. I will likely be the only one there with a Corvair!

My mother had a Corvair, when I was in high school. Nothing fancy, but in retrospect, that was one tough car. It was driven winter and summer for years and abused like crazy. Never skipped a beat. I knew where the largest pools of water formed on the roads after summer storms. Did I mention that it floats? Water that builds up in front, flows over the ‘frunk’, not where the engine is. Spark plugs are on top of the block and nowhere near the water. Car is made for summer rains

Love the sound of that exhaust!

I was there and missed seeing you, your wife, nor car! I’m glad that everyone warmly welcomed you! I love watching your car restoration! Keep up the good work! God bless!

corvairs are my first of classic cars. I owned a rare 63 700 coupe 443 off the line out of willow run plant

Can't wait to see the restoration of that instrument pack and it's installation

Nice to see you get out in the old girl, sounds great! I'm glad you showed how to convert the master cylinder, it sounded easy in principle but it's always nice to see it done. That's definitely on my short list of upgrades when I get mine running. I've been tackling some wiring repairs and a bit of welding. I don't know how yours is, but my '66 has bad rust in the kick panel and door hinge areas. Where the driver's side lower door hinge bolts up was about 3/4 of the way rusted out, causing the door to sag! But a bit of metal welded in and it closes great. I ought to have my harness tape and packard 56 series connectors in by the weekend so I can finish off my dash harness and start to put mine together again. Best of luck out there, Have a good time!

The Corvair with air conditioning and headrests was cool. I used to own a '67 Camaro and the lack of headrests was troubling.

I love the corvairs that is one cool little car 😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎

EZ on that impact!!

You stated the dual circuit master cylinder appeared first in ‘66; I believe it didn’t appear until 1967.

Great, inspiring videos. Thanks for all the hard work and research. I use the same process for replacing wheel studs, but I put a liberal amount of anti-seize on the threads before using the nuts to pull the studs into place.

First car was a '65 CORSA. Loved that dash! Souped up 4bbl 4spd. I loved that car.

I learned to drive on a 1969 Monza 50 years ago. I have always wanted to get another one and watching this series has fueled that desire.

Car events are always fun and interesting as it's also an educational opportunity. I bet that new instrument cluster is going to look real sharp!

It was hard to tell on the pass side, but it looked like you have 2 short brake shoes on the drivers side and 2 long ones on the pass side. Should have a short shoe on the front of the backing plate and a long on the rear. And you are asking for trouble by not putting anti-seize on lug stud threads before using the nut to pull them in.

Sean, another OUTSTANDING video! I have a number of things to say, but I suspect I don't have the time or room to list 'em all. You may recall a recent post I made to you regarding switching to a dual master cylinder for safety- I hadn't realized you were already ready. Interesting side note: I mentioned I was getting ready to do the same on my '64 Monza Convert- I did it YESTERDAY! I enlisted the help of my pal Larry (OK, OK, Larry did most of the work, especially bending the new brake lines). Larry, BTW, has his own RU-vid channel "Wise Fool's Garage", and he is quite well informed. An additional impetus was provided to me last week- I was driving down US-30 in Illinois in fairly heavy traffic in my newly repainted '64 and some idiot woman PULLED A U-TURN DIRECTLY IN FRONT OF ME! I locked up the brakes to avoid her, PRAYING that I wouldn't blow a line and total my car! Now I feel a lot better! Another item... the CORSA National Convention is in Wisconsin Dells, WI this year, June 19-24. The Host hotel is booked, but there are other hotels in the area. Sadly, I can only make it up there for one day this year, but next year, I'm hearing that next year it will be in Dayton, OH, and I'm told it will be an excellent event. I certainly hope you can make it to one or the other, I'd love to meet you. BTW, I am with the Chicagoland Corvair Enthusiasts (CCE) and our website is ccecorvair.com

COOL LOOKING GREAT VIDEO.✌✌👍👍🏁🏁🏁

Excellent demo on bench bleeding!

Good idea to replace the single circuit master cylinder with a dual version. My 64 Corvair had a wheel bearing fail, then the axle pulled out along with the rear brake drum (going downhill), thus no brakes at all. Managed to slide the car around the corner and hit a curb- but near disaster.

Thank you!.

Great job so far. I can't wait to get mine done to be able to drive.doing seats now then front end then engine. My gut feeling says you are thinking about injecting.

You did a first-rate rebuild on your car and I know you spent some serious cash at Clark's in the process. Hope you didn't have too many regrets at 19:15 seeing swap meet prices on all the stuff you paid full price for. We've all been there! :)

IO IROC wheels are the best for LM. Keep it in the bowtie family.

Have you considered replacing the 2 single carbs with a single 4 bbl? I know they used to have a kit for that back in the day. It was pretty simple with a 4 legged tubular intake manifold and a template for drilling another hole in each head for the additional legs on each side. The plates for each leg could be welded or epoxied on and they ran pretty well; also eliminated the carb synching work.

I have center caps from Gm that fits them rims still in the boxes

Is there any way you can tell me were you got your block for your rear brakes

Sean, I'm thinking about adding bumperettes to the bumpers. do you know their sizes? Looks like I've got to make them.

Did you keep the new front tires at a lower PSI than the rears?

It's strange that the speedo was off with the 13" tire/rim combo as that was stock. 14" was optional on some models. As long as the tire height(from ground to center point of rim) is correct then the tire/rim combo doesn't matter. That Browns FI is sweet! Combine it with a distributorless ignition and make the Corvair run even better.

Great video Shawn. I am a 69 year old man, and remember many of my friends having these back in the day. You got my itch to get one of these. Most around here are automatics tho. Are they just as collectible, or should I find a four speed like yours? One of my best friends had a convertible Corvair and loved it. If I get one, you will be getting many questions from me. Looking on line right now for one.

Just wondering. Any idea what you’re getting for gas mileage since the rebuild with the mild cam change ?

hello there will the brake cylinder also work with a 1962 corvair

So now hopefully you can invest disc brakes for your car 🚗 just think how fast you can slow down.

Just curious, what's your mpg?

80 MPH and no flip ? you mean ralph lied ? of course he did

My first car was a 1965 Corvair. I now have a 2013 Mini Cooper LOL.

True. Dual masters started in ‘67.