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I picked up 5 Victa 2 strokes today, 3 of them very similar corvettes but with small differences

Interesting to note all have a rear catcher chute, the one on the left has no side discharge chute, the middle one has a side discharge chute on the left when mowing, the one on the right hand side has a side chute on the right hand side when mowing. Any clues as to why they put a side chute on these and if so why would they swap sides. Were these side chutes just fitted with a cover plate or something or did they have some other purpose?

G'day Norm,
Any chance of a detail pic of the LH discharge on the centre Corvette? Don't recall encountering that one.

As best I can recall, the earliest Corvettes had a detachable cover plate that fitted over the RHS opening in the base, but that was more to permit cutting close to walls, than to allow side discharge of clippings.

Here you go Gadge

Ta Norm.

That one is the earliest of the trio; the LHS opening was used on the 1964-66 Corvette 2 Model 523 and 533; and the RHS opening on the 1966-68 Corvette 2 Models 535 and 545, and the 1967-68 Corvette 2 160cc Model 543. Going by the Green Book images, anyway.

The left hand one would be 1971-73; it has the Series 70 MkI engine, the first Vette to use the 'box' muffler rather than a 'torpedo' style.

Here's a pic of an early one with its cover plate:


Past thread LINK

Thanks Gadge, hard to understand why Victa went to the trouble with such small modifications for no real benefit. I got 2 of the metal catchers with them and they are in fairly good condition and they all run ok

After having a play with these to see if they would run, I have come to the conclusion that whoever designed this mower was not from the top of his class at design school. A 2 stroke mower that has an extremely difficult spark plug to get in and out