Cheap alternative 5 speed for VW, Ideas... 

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There is a kit to run the trans rear engine. Upside down it's made for the vanagon community. A guy over in Europe makes them. I'm running trans right side up with a reverse rotation engine. Tried to make the video easy to follow but most people I tried to explain it to in person didn't understand without a picture. To clarify. Rear engine, reverse rotation. Trans axle right side up.(only downfall will be running on the coast side of trans

@@Dirtfloorfab, OK, I get it now. I didn't know what trans you were talking about when you mentioned the VW Bus mod. So you will be going Honda then. Running on the coast side of the gear will be interesting. Sounds kinda bad, but I'm sure somebody's been down that road. Use an IR thermometer to monitor temps. I rebuilt my Volvo's rear axle 2 yrs ago and they tell you not to drive more than 15mins the first few times out. I decided to measure my temps at the bearing races and rear cover and found them over 250F. I tried thicker gear oil and temps went up more! I also had gear noise. I took it apart and made changes and brought the temps down to 180F and improved the noise issue. Oil breaks down over 250F and heat is what kills final drives, so if you keep tabs on the temps you'll learn a lot. Good luck, man! I enjoy the channel and the builds! Garage time is the best time, eh?

@@AOGDC10 it'll definitely be a Learning curve when I get back onto the project. I'm hoping that becauee the Honda doesnt produce very much torque the diff will last but we shall see how it pans out might have wasted a couple hundred bucks just to see how it goes. I do plan to have a guage to measure temps atleast temporarily and also to run very very good oil. I think if the Honda doesnt pan out I'll probably go 1.8 t mid engine. But for now I'm hoping to not have to give up my back seat

@@Dirtfloorfab Well, you'll know after about 10mins of driving. I learned that temp can climb to the moon (in a rear axle with a stock 4cyl) in short order even when you're babying it. For lube, I'd recommend going with what the factory/book recommends or what guys on forums say is best. I used an Eaton TrueTrac Torsen-type diff in my rebuild and filled it with Valvoline 80w-90. It acted like a locked spool and when it freed itself it made horrible noise after the oil warmed up. I called their tech support thinking the diff was defective. They never specified the best lube in their instructions, but the guy on the phone told me NEVER use Valvoline. He recommended Shell Spirax which I had to special order. I think it had to have no LSD friction modifiers and couldn't be synthetic. He was right! I drove it that winter and by spring time it was dead silent and has been working perfectly since. Weird! The punchline is that a non-synth, run-of-the-mill, fleet truck lube happened to be the best stuff for the diff.

That's who I'm working with but they don't want to mess with the flywheel for one off setup. Flywheel is fairly easy to figure out in my eyes anyways

Cool, I built 73 vw bug with a vr6 and 5 spd all from a Jetta gli. Good luck with the build my friend.

@@redlinepaul410 not super firmiliar with the vw stuff but from memory vr6 was only ever mated to transverse trans right? I never knew Audi made so many longitudenal transaxle till I started doing a little research on it

@@redlinepaul410 by the way I bet that little bug would scoot

No, vr6 doesnt bolt up to a audi tranny u need adapter also. I put a complete vr6 and 5spd from a Jetta in a rear tube frame with the factory subframe.0

Already have too many irons lol but yeah that's the plan just parts collecting for the bug