4ksq turbo conversion

[Todd Phenneger]

Ken,
  I love my 5-bolts.  You want 5kt or 5ktq hubs in back with
same 4kq rear bearing.
  5kt housing up front with 90q Ball joints with struts drilled
to match or slotted ur-q balljoints (bolt right up).  Thats 85'
urq.  4kq spring perches (or coilover like I did).  ANd rear 4kq
strut cartridges or ur-q units for the front.
  T's with Auto had G-54.  Better than G-60 in my humble opinon.
 Working on 944t caliper mod that should work beautifully with
stock rotors.  E-mail me wiht questions.
  Go coilover.  Its great.
I also am running 2-piece 90q rear struts.  8lbs ligher per side
but requires some custom machining.  
l8r
  Todd

--- Ken Keith <auditude at neta.com> wrote:
> Hmmm...
> 
> I'm a bit excited.  I'm working on picking up an '87 5kta,
> which will 
> be used for the motor for my 4ksq instead of my '88 5kcstq.
> 
> I was just realizing that if I wanted to go to 5 bolt hubs on
> the 
> 4kstq, then I can probably use the front strut housings from
> the 
> automatic fwd, and then drill the rear hubs.  Is it that easy?
>  I 
> realize I'd want to remove the stock perches in front, and
> make the 
> 4ksq strut inserts fit the housing a la a shimming tube or 
> something, and other miscellaneous fitment things like the
> ball 
> joints or whatever in front, but I don't actually need a
> "quattro" 5kt 
> to do this, do I?
> 
> I may need some 5kt rear driveshafts tho', to work with the
> front 
> housings.  Or do I?  Can I just use the fwd 5kt driveshafts,
> or are 
> they too long due to the track width?
> 
> Let me just confirm what I think I know about using auto cars
> for 
> donors:  I have to get a flywheel, and swap the pilot bearing
> in the 
> driveshaft.  The computers are the same, in that I will be
> able to put 
> a 1.8 bar chip in it?  Are there any other differences?
> 
> This is so freaking cool.  If this works out, then I will not
> have to 
> cannibalize my '88 5kcstq, which is actually very nice.  I
> pretty 
> much decided that if I keep a Type44, then I will get a later
> model 
> with the newer dash and door handles (and engine/ignition
> system 
> et al), if not a '91 20vt.
> 
> Do 5kt automatic fwd's have G60's up front?
> 
> And I'll actually have two running cars while I do the swap! 
> Tee hee!
> 
> Damn! :-)
> 
> Thanks all!
> 
> Ken


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