EJ20 TT with 911 gear box ?

72RSbug Officially Full-On Dubber

266 posts · joined Jan 2005 · 24 Jan 2005, 11:58 pm

#298273

My friend runs a 911 gearbox from an early 2.2 911 on a 3.6 carrera engine in his bug and I want to use the same type of box on my EJ20 TT.

One question: will the engine turn the correct way with this setup or will that give me 5 reverse gears and 1 forward?

subaruboxer Officially Full-On Dubber

292 posts · joined Jan 2005 · 25 Jan 2005, 6:13 am

#298287

You will have 5 forward and 1 reverse gears as long as you use a 911 gearbox. If you take a gearbox of a 914 Porsche you will end up with 5 reverse and 1 forward gear, because the engine is mounted in the middle of the 914 and the gearbox is behind it.

wacked1 Custom Title Time!

1,508 posts · joined Jul 2003 · 25 Jan 2005, 8:17 am

#298312

so are you talking about the 915 transaxle?????

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VWCOOL 23 Windows of Awesome

5,158 posts · joined Jun 2003 · 25 Jan 2005, 9:48 am

#298351

does the subie engine run 'backwards'?

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speedster356 Plastic not Classic Racing

1,624 posts · joined Aug 2002 · 25 Jan 2005, 10:38 am

#298376

Nope. Same direction of rotation as the VW.

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72RSbug Officially Full-On Dubber

266 posts · joined Jan 2005 · 25 Jan 2005, 3:40 pm

#298460

Thanks for clearing that up for me 🙂
My Suby engine should be here any day now but my friend has exemans for the next 2 weeks and he is going to get me a reasenably prices 911 gear box at the independent Porsche parts dealer he works part time at. We'll also be putting the aloy 944 rear arms on and brakes but I'm not sure about which transaxles yet, any ideas on what would work with this combo?

NigeType3 Officially Full-On Dubber

371 posts · joined Dec 2002 · 25 Jan 2005, 5:26 pm

#298483

aircooled.net have a tech artical about installing one of these boxes

wacked1 Custom Title Time!

1,508 posts · joined Jul 2003 · 25 Jan 2005, 5:33 pm

#298486

mate don't worry about the 901 dogleg first a crap of a box and as week as . if you can get your hands on a turbo 930 4 speed go for it, they are rare which = big dollars and cope with big hp but not as expensive as the G50/50 your best bet would be a 915 it is a 5 speed good ratios but not as strong as the 930or G50/50 and the pick of the bunch is the G50/50 a lot bigger than the others can handel in excess of 500hp

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boof2332 Custom Title Time!

1,210 posts · joined May 2004 · 26 Jan 2005, 7:21 am

#298683

The 915, that has first back and left, like the early 911s ?

[Edited on 25-1-2005 by boof2332]

72RSbug Officially Full-On Dubber

266 posts · joined Jan 2005 · 26 Jan 2005, 9:09 am

#298723

The 915, that has first back and left, like the early 911s ?

don't know yet really, it would be from an early eighties 911 from what I understand

boof2332 Custom Title Time!

1,210 posts · joined May 2004 · 27 Jan 2005, 9:35 pm

#299567

The 3.0 911's were till 1983 which I believe had the 915 box, The stronger one came with the 3.2 from 1983-1988(G50-not sure?)
Still should take the power fine, a mate of mine works for Bob Wymms, I will ask him how they go tomorrow.

Matt

72RSbug Officially Full-On Dubber

266 posts · joined Jan 2005 · 28 Jan 2005, 1:57 am

#299626

I was thinking that it might be a good idea to get a used 911 2.2 liter box for now and in about a you switch to a meneola box (when I've saved up enough money) and tuning the engine for some serious HP.