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forgive my ignorance, but what's a quaife?
blake/
On Oct 28, 2005, at 7:50 AM, C Boyko wrote:
> On 1:10:44 am 10/28/05 Blake Irvin <blake@clockserver.homeip.net>
> wrote:
>
>> probably true - i guess maybe i just don't like the way the gear
>> 'feels' - a bit lumpy, besides the bogging. i think the PO might
>> have beat the snot out if it - it sometimes whines in 3rd and 5th
>>
>> what is a good (fairly) new replacement transmission? i still have a
>> stock sachs 16v clutch kit i bought by accident...
>>
>> blake/
>>
>>
>>
> There's a nice gear chart on the Scirocco.org website, it'll give the
> ratios and potential donors. AGB is what mine came with, it was
> fine as it
> was, close ratio, 3.67 final if memory serves. I had it rebuilt to
> a 4K
> essentially, and have a real 4K on my 79. I'm sure you will find a few
> people with them, but the 4K's an 8V tranny, so the flanges will be
> 90s,
> not 100s. These can be be swapped out. 4K is also close ratio but
> with a
> 3.94 final, and a fifth gear swap for something that revs lower in
> fifth
> would complete the package. With a Quaife. ;)
>
> Cathy
>
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