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| posted on July 24th, 2004 at 12:17 PM |
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Porsche gearbox into Kombi
I was just curious if anyone has ideas on putting a porsche 5 speed into a 76 kombi. I have put some 17" wheels on with 215/45 tyres and now it revs
its butt off at freeway speeds and I would like to get them back down.
Rob
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shiftyvw
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| posted on July 24th, 2004 at 02:49 PM |
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Putting the right size tyres on would be much more cost effective and if this the rob i think it is I would be more concerned about fixing the clutch
from hell first. |
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| posted on July 24th, 2004 at 03:29 PM |
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my last bus was a 74 auto and it ran 17's with 40 series all round and it didnt seem to be reving that hard ,but it never really saw much over
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| posted on July 25th, 2004 at 08:43 PM |
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Shiftyvw, Is that you Owen? Not a thing wrong with the clutch, now that it is standard!!
I can't put a higher profile tyre on as to do this would cause interferance with the adjusters on the rear spring plates for the adjustable
suspension.
I think the auto gearbox overall final gear ratio is higher than that of the manual, this would be why your auto didn't seem to rev as hard.
So any other ideas for gearboxes??
Rob
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| posted on July 25th, 2004 at 09:42 PM |
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Try an Albins custom 4th gear to drop the revs in your kombi box
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shiftyvw
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| posted on July 26th, 2004 at 10:09 PM |
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Wise Move. Now just put the car back to standard height and get some original wheels...........etc etc.:blah |
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| posted on July 27th, 2004 at 10:57 AM |
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Which gearbox are you running? The 2 litre box has better ratios for your purposes than the 1700/1800 versions.
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| posted on July 27th, 2004 at 09:51 PM |
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Owen, You have beem listening to Shimo to much!! Every time I turn up he says the same thing.
I have a 2 litre gearbox but the revs are still on the high side, but the revs are still too high. Changing up to 45 series instead of the previous
40's helped but not enough.
Rob
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| posted on July 28th, 2004 at 09:31 AM |
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With 215 x 45 x17 tyres I estimate that the overall tyre diameter is 5% less than stock. So I agree with ShiftyVW - get different tyres before
changing the gearbox.
You can play around with tyre dimensions on http://www.aussiekombicampers.com/projects_bbw.shtml
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