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I've got a good AAZ siting on my garage floor.

Yea and I got an ALH and a BKD sat in mine

mcgill5 wrote:get it done! when do you want the bell-housing? can the pattern be made quick? just incase the 3.3 scooby falls through,i will be going for the audi or vr6 route for the tristar! cheers mcgill

The foundry and the patternmakers are always busy, but if I can wave something under their noses thay can give an idea of costs.
As for the Audi trans route, it will involve developing an offset and reversed cwp set, like matey out in OZ has done for the Subaru trans. Transaxle casing mods will certainly be necessary, possibly even remaking one of the bearing carriers.
I like the idea of keeping it all VAG. The VR6 (or Audi V6) when fitted into a syncro means you still have a decent departure angle, unlike with a 5-pot.
But in a syncro there's the small matter of adapting the locking diff to fit the Audi quattro trans (won't be easy).
Matching diff ratios to the front syncro locking diff can be specified when getting the cwp sets made.
It will be a long project.

ok i`ll ring you thursday then. .....

By the time that get done .... It'll be like making a perch for a Dodo!

Has the OP even bought himself a syncro yet?

syncropaddy wrote:By the time that get done .... It'll be like making a perch for a Dodo!

When it's for a vehicle originally designed in the mid-1970's, it's all a bit irrelevant
It's all delightfully futile, but very satisfying when an idea can be made to work

One owner, RHD, syncro Doka on ebay........ 130421320901

i may be wrong but is the transmishon tunle (where the gear stick comes throught the floor) from a deisle van not a petrol? looks like it too me, on my doka (petrol) it is flat.

neil

Bit rich for an early one dont you think?

dizzydubber wrote:Bit rich for an early one dont you think?

What do you want? Blood ?
Early is '85

axeman wrote:i may be wrong but is the transmishon tunle (where the gear stick comes throught the floor) from a deisle van not a petrol? looks like it too me, on my doka (petrol) it is flat.

neil

Diesel,
Just compared our Petrol syncro and diesel syncro and it's defo diesel.

walkthrough tunnel heater channel

Stand corrected - walk through heater channel - didn't cross my mind - whoops.

speaking of RHD Tristars - did anyone buy the one last year from the woodsman in Essex ?

My original post - link still points to the ad ...

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