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Subject:Re: Is there such a thing as a good used transmission?
From:Chris S
Date:Wed, 22 Oct 2008 15:58:03 -0400

Has anyone flipped an Audi transmission to make it work in the
Vanagon?  There was some chatter about that "project" but I don't know
if anyone took it on.  The late 80's Audi transmissions are very
durable.

2008/10/22 Allan Streib <streib@cs.indiana.edu>:
> "Scott Daniel - Turbovans" <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM> said:
>
>>   These days.............since almost all you find are 20 + years old, or
>> very high mileage, like over 200,000..........
>> finding an actual good used one is less likely these days than it was.
>
> I seem to recall that the Bostig people were looking at swapping in an
> entire Focus powertrain (Zetec and tranny) not sure whether that was
> ever carried into a working prototype or farther....  Since the Zetec is
> transverse in the Focus I'm not sure how it would fit but...
>
> Allan
> --
> 1991 Vanagon GL
>

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