The Audi 5 is a separate beast than the 4 cyls.  There are fiver
bell-housings from SA, but they're rare and expensive.  Personally, if I
were to undergo a gasser conversion, it'd be either the 2.3L turbo fiver or
a 1.8L turbo four.  Both a are stellar engines

On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 6:44 PM, craig cowan <phishman068@gmail.com> wrote:

> My understanding has been that the Audi 5 cylinder has the same mounting
> patters as the VW/Audi I4's and can mount up to a diesel bell housing. This
> however is a problem being as you have a syncro, so you'd need to source
> the
> Diesel Syncro bell housing which relocates the starter. Then i assume all
> the diesel mounts could be modified to fit the I5 Audi engine and all would
> be well.
> Or maybe the Overland Kit still exists somewhere and all the South African
> parts to do it right are available....
>
> These are just my understandings and thoughts.
> The Diesel Syncro bell housings and gas tanks I see for sale from time to
> time, so they do exist.
>
> -Craig
> '85GL turned WESTY
>
>
>
>
> On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 9:22 PM, Adrian Bertarelli <abertarelli@gmail.com
> >wrote:
>
> > Fello van addicts,
> >
> > I love this community and the list, i have lurched here for years, and
> > i have turned to this forum more than once for advice in solving my
> > vans many quirks.  My poor syncro has been sitting and waiting for an
> > engine conversion for ever.  I always get close to doing it, but every
> > time i have enough money to do a conversion on her, life problems
> > creep up, the money gets used and the van sits, and the wife gets
> > frustrated with my obsession of keeping her and one day having my
> > dream van.  I am a big dreamer, and have put to many hours thinking
> > about which conversion to do, and spent to many hours in the salvage
> > yards dreaming.  I finally narrowed myself down and am about to pull
> > the trigger on a bostig deposit, when something on craigslist caught
> > my eye.  Someone local to me is selling a 86 vw quantum syncro with a
> > audi  2.2 5cyl in it.  It got me thinking about this conversion again.
> >  I once had an audi given to me as a donor for my syncro.  After the
> > audi 80 sat forever i finally gave it away because the physical parts
> > for this conversion where very expensive, and after dreaming about it
> > forever i finally decided to limp the boxer along.  Long story short,
> > i saw this quantum syncro and thought to myself what if.  I wonder if
> > vw used the same tranny in the quantum syncro as the vanagon syncro.
> > Or if the bell housing mounts are the same.  If so, it might be
> > possible to pick that engine out of the quantum with the bell housing
> > and stick it in the vanagon.  I would only be missing the motor mount
> > which you can get.  So I ask the list for wisdom, would this quantums
> > audi powerplant mount up to my vanagon tranny.  If the quantum had
> > been converted to this 5cyl the bell housing adapter might fit and all
> > i would need to find is the engine mounting bar and mounts.  It is a
> > crazy thought but it is in my area cheap and again i am a big dreamer.
> >  What do my fellow vanagon friends think.
> > Adrian
> >
>

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Casey
'87 300TD
'94 100CSQ Avant
'89 Bluestar