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Subject:Re: Audi Parts in a Vanagon (Frankensteinagon?)
From:David Marshall
Date:Tue, 3 Mar 1998 21:47:27 -0800

At 14:05 3/3/98 +0200, Helmut Zeidler wrote:
>>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)

I like to tinker with it but we are 9 time zones away from each other!  I
am eagerly awaiting some news on this one!

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