Audi quattro 6 sp impreza conversion

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28 October 2015, 11:00 AM

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Somehow I have managed to miss this thread.
Great read and fantastic skills/problem solving by thinking 'outside the box' (pun absolutely intended)

Well done Boosted

Thanks! I thoroughly enjoyed the build and driving the car with the box.

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28 October 2015, 11:01 AM

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Enjoyed reading this; best read on here in a long while. Thank you and full kudos

cheers, means a lot

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05 October 2016, 08:42 AM

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What was the reason for doing it with audi rear diff, not the impreza one?

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06 October 2016, 03:30 PM

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What was the reason for doing it with audi rear diff, not the impreza one?

Direction of rotation is wrong

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06 October 2016, 04:01 PM

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LOL. As reasons go, that's a very good one!

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06 October 2016, 06:26 PM

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I'm imagining a huge tug of war involving one car

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08 October 2016, 08:04 AM

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I'm imagining a huge tug of war involving one car

Correct!

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07 January 2017, 12:00 PM

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Two years later and about 20,000 miles this conversion is still going strong

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07 January 2017, 12:11 PM

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Excellent!! How much torque are you sticking through it now? No more drive shaft trouble?

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07 January 2017, 05:50 PM

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Excellent!! How much torque are you sticking through it now? No more drive shaft trouble?

in the region of 400ftlb (forged 2.5 on meth) made a set of decent shafts and actually twisted them a full turn! So now I've widened the track and I am using oe WRX shafts with modified inner cv's, much simpler!

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08 January 2017, 08:45 AM

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Great read on a Sunday morning, kudos to you sir......great skills!!

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08 January 2017, 09:19 AM

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Great read on a Sunday morning, kudos to you sir......great skills!!

thanks! I have recently changed the gearbox over to an allroad 2.7 biturbo one, going from a potential 236mph sixth (pretty unusable) to a more acceptable 150mph sixth makes the car make more drivable. Top gear is the same as a U.K. Sti, but the 1-6 gears are much more evenly spaced.

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08 January 2017, 09:27 AM

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Also knocked up a new flywheel to take an Oe RS4 organic clutch

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08 January 2017, 11:15 AM

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Not read the entire thread, but you have some great skills and patience

I did ponder the idea of the Audi tiptronic box, auto for pootling around and sequential gear change when you want to take control, but after reading this I think that would be a nightmare to do

not sure how strong the tiptronic box would be?

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10 January 2017, 11:17 AM

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Not read the entire thread, but you have some great skills and patience

I did ponder the idea of the Audi tiptronic box, auto for pootling around and sequential gear change when you want to take control, but after reading this I think that would be a nightmare to do

not sure how strong the tiptronic box would be?

It's just a ZF autobox. Heavy AF.

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10 April 2017, 01:41 PM

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Sorry to bring up a relatively old thread but can you pm me boosted, I have a couple questions about the conversion

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28 March 2022, 12:42 PM

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Audi 6 speed remote with push down reverse lockout. All working as it should.
Carpet and ecu is lifted just to make sure it didn't get damaged when creating a little extra room where the gear linkage goes into the box (you can see the red rubber boot in one of the pics above)
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i want to do a tdi outback but dont want to deal with the adaptor plate to the tranny cant i just transplant a 5 speed vw tranny that woulkd bolt right up to the tdi? obviously there would be some other adapting forthe axels and stuff?