Re: AWD's and Synchro's...

["I.Mannix" <mannix@privatei.com>]

At 11:46 AM -0700 03/18/1997, KDBinney@aol.com wrote:
>In a message dated 97-03-17 19:15:33 EST, mannix@privatei.com (I.Mannix)
>writes:
>
><< OK, found out more, and I was incorrect in using the word "significant."
> Differences are (according to someone who is infrequently wrong - he does
> not know everything, but what he knows he KNOWS;) final drive ratios, VW
> having a ratio in the 4.20 range, Audi 3.9ish - 3.89, something like that.
> The VW rear differential casing is also "flatter," which my source
> speculates is due to the floorpan of the wagon.  Otherwise, they are
> basically the same - mounting points might be slightly different between
> the two, but they are in fact the same.  I like to make stuff up sometimes,
> I guess!  Sorry about that!
>  >>
>
>The back ends of a syncro or quattro are probably close enough to fit
>assuming VW/Audi didnt do anything dumb.

My source did not say whether he thought it would fit, nor did he imply it
would'nt, but supposedly, they are different.....if you think about the
Quattro, and its tiny trunk, one can see where design parameters were
different.  I have friends with both, I'll see if I can look at the two
cars side by side.

 The big difference I can think of
>is that a syncro is used on a transverly mounted engine,

Not the one I looked at last week:)!  It had a longitudinally mounted
engine, just like the Audi.

Mannix (don't know why I care......;)






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