Evo gearbox transplant?
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keastygtir
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Thanks, but my Danish isnt so great!
Didn't we go through this on the Modifiers?
You'd need custom drive shafts, which probably also means an EVO rear-end to match it up... plus the transfer case and a clutch... then you'd need a way to change the gears (because the linkage for a GTi-R won't match-up).
The consensus was that it wasn't worth the money or effort. - For the same input of money and time you could get a cryo-treated gearset, and brace the end case of the standard box.
Here's the link.
I particularly liked the "If you want an EVO gearbox so much, why don't you buy an EVO?" comment. ;-)
You'd need custom drive shafts, which probably also means an EVO rear-end to match it up... plus the transfer case and a clutch... then you'd need a way to change the gears (because the linkage for a GTi-R won't match-up).
The consensus was that it wasn't worth the money or effort. - For the same input of money and time you could get a cryo-treated gearset, and brace the end case of the standard box.
Here's the link.
I particularly liked the "If you want an EVO gearbox so much, why don't you buy an EVO?" comment. ;-)
I think that the problem is that there are not many GTIR's out there, and for somebody, to make profit out of a plug & play kit for the EVO box, he should have to sell a lot of them to cover the R&D costs and time spent making the kit. It would be expensive, and a gearbox change is a complex thing to most DIY'ers, let alone installing a whole new transmission setup. There's also other options readily available, as Quaife and PAR gearsets.
It would be nice to know that is available though, and having it like an option to choose.
It would be nice to know that is available though, and having it like an option to choose.
vss irvine
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you could also do it with an audi gearbox, 6 speed.
it just so happens ive already got a gtir with this conversion done!!
it just so happens ive already got a gtir with this conversion done!!
watoga
Member
Did you do this conversion yourself? Has it been documented so others can have a go? Or is it a secretive hush-hush thingy?
Dave
vss irvine
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its all my own work,
i turned up at the previous owners house, paid the asking price and (eventually) had the car transported home!
its only secret in the sense that the very clever man that done it (plasterer to trade) done it in his garage in the garden.
its almost complete, needs a haldex controller, fuel cell fitted, and prop and exhaust finished. but he only done it for the drag strip.
ill get it finished off one day, unless someone offers me good money for it.
i turned up at the previous owners house, paid the asking price and (eventually) had the car transported home!
its only secret in the sense that the very clever man that done it (plasterer to trade) done it in his garage in the garden.
its almost complete, needs a haldex controller, fuel cell fitted, and prop and exhaust finished. but he only done it for the drag strip.
ill get it finished off one day, unless someone offers me good money for it.
red reading
Active Member
I'll give you 10 pound mister,very good deal innit! you want paypal or cheque?
:lol:
I'll give you 20L of vegetable oil to run your diesel vehicles on, that's worth more than the 10 quid he's offering! :lol:
vss irvine
Well-Known Member
veg oil makes me hungry, so your offer has been declined!
danny your missus wont let you have another car......
danny your missus wont let you have another car......
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pulsarboby
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i knew all about that audi conversion years ago as he bought my old shell which martyn now has.
i never thought anything would come of it as he told me what his plans were, but fair play hes a very clever guy even if it never did get finished.
i never thought anything would come of it as he told me what his plans were, but fair play hes a very clever guy even if it never did get finished.
red reading
Active Member
Yet... Depend's if i hide my boat and say i sold it;-)
vss irvine
Well-Known Member
it does actually run and drive (in 2wd just now) so technically it is finished.
needs a bit of final tinkering and testing to see if anything breaks!!
tell you what danny, if you really want it, ill do you a great deal and take that old 10 off your hands, your too scared of it anyway!
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red reading
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Scared of my 10r .......yes your stupid to not be! has to be ridden with respect that one as it's a bit wild .... and no you cant have it!
I keep toying with the haldex 4x4 thing after having a car that had it fitted from the factory,it really does work well and the gearbox and diff is supposed to be silly strong too.