turn the tranny upside down...

I know of one guy here in Germany with a Audi V6 TDi and the Audi 6speed
manual tranny.

I am building an adapter at the moment to use my Audi 5speed with my V6 in
my vanagon. An adapter with the bolt pattern of the V6 on one side, and the
bolt pattern of the tranny turned around 180� on the other side.

Raimund

----- Original Message -----
From: "Andrew Grebneff" <andrew.grebneff@STONEBOW.OTAGO.AC.NZ>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Saturday, April 06, 2002 11:47 AM
Subject: Re: VR6 Vanagon

> >Has anyone ever done a conversion like this.  Any pics?  Is there a
> >conversion kit you can buy?
>
> The conversion is popular in der Vaterland. Usually with a Porsche
> G50 trans. I imagine there are kits available there. I know of one
> which uses the FWD V6 trans (I believe VW has dropped the R and now
> just calls it V6). DON'Y ask me how the guy got the drive working, as
> I doubt the diff can be flipped to reverse rotation to counter the
> trans' 180-degree rotation for rear-engined placement.
> --
> Andrew Grebneff
> 165 Evans St, Dunedin 9001, New Zealand
> <andrew.grebneff@stonebow.otago.ac.nz>
> Seashell, Macintosh, VW/Toyota van nut
>