Hey people, its been awhile since I've been here, but I've been lurking every now and then.
After reading with great interest about the Renault transaxles in the other thread, I was curious about any other suggestions for transmissions for Beetles and Kombis. I didn't mention the Porsche boxes in the subject line because, well, they're well overpriced and probably over-engineered for most purposes.
So, are there any other alternatives? MR2 transaxles? Any FWD transmissions that are readily adaptable?
there is very few FWD or RWD cars that use a north-soiuth transaxle same as VW does. the only relatively common options I can think of are:
porsche
renault
audi
alfa-romeo
volvo, and possibly some peugeots though I know nothing about peugeots in general.
there's even fewer that will cope with any kind of power.
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i think i can remember someone having a commodore box in a kombi!
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older citroen????
they took me away haha, hope the medication works
one alternative is to just stick with the good old 6-rib 2lt kombi gearbox. They seem to stand up to old V8 conversions in kombi's pretty well. Mine is handling my V6 just fine.
I know a guy in the US with a 2.3lt turbo ford powered Baja that thrashes it with no real probs in the gearbox department.
The only guy I know that had problems is a guy with a 330HP at the wheels T04 turbo 13B rotary. Insane amounts of HP so naturally killed the gears. He now runs a set of albins gears in the kombi gearbox and it is surviving well.
Wes -
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Thanks for the replies, everyone.
Wes, yeah I'd say that you're probably right. In fact, a 13B is pretty much the same application that I'm looking at.
What options are there for limited slip diffs? The Quaife ones are big $, and I don't want a locker.
The car will be used for hill climbs mostly, but it'll also be a daily driver. If I ever manage to sell my damn current car....
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