>I would be very interested to hear more thoughts bout putting an audi
drive
>train in a vanagon.  The shifter mechanism would have to be fabricated
along
>with a trans mount. And uh, if the trans width is different, the drive
axle
>length would have to change.  I'm going to the junky tommorrow to pull
apart
>an audi 5000 trans and see if I can flip the diff....
I do have a 4+e gearbox of an AUDI 200 as spare. It wasn't gone into
the Vanagon with its engine, still available. Do one like to have it
for testing? But I guess, it's useless for our application.

Helmut
'80 Vanagon, 5 Cylinder powered (I like Vanagaudi)