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 Biggus
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| posted on February 15th, 2004 at 01:09 AM |
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Transmissions - alternatives to the VW and Renault?
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?
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| posted on February 15th, 2004 at 03:25 PM |
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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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| posted on February 15th, 2004 at 08:17 PM |
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i think i can remember someone having a commodore box in a kombi!
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| posted on February 15th, 2004 at 08:30 PM |
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Subaru mid mount
lots of work
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| posted on February 15th, 2004 at 09:19 PM |
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older citroen????
they took me away haha, hope the medication works
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| posted on February 16th, 2004 at 10:58 AM |
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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.
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| posted on February 16th, 2004 at 11:05 PM |
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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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| posted on February 21st, 2004 at 05:08 PM |
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seen a yank tank motor in the back seat of a on road buggy
V8 in the back seat chev auto box .
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