re. Coupe GT Tranny swap, what's involved?

[Mihnea Cotet]

At 09:00 11/05/2002 -0400, Bob Rossato wrote:
>A few years back a friend of mine was in the process of building a couple of
>Improved Touring Audi coupes and had picked up an '86 automatic for one of
>the shells.  It turns out the body shell for the automatic is different and
>the tunnel was too small for the manual transmission.  Would have required
>some persuasion from a sledge hammer and perhaps more with regard to mounts.
>Can't recall.  In any case, it isn't a simple swapping of parts.  I can try
>to find out more.

I recall a french friend of mine performed such a swap on an '84 Coupe GT
and it seemed pretty straightforward, except the linkage swap and the
clutch pedal issue..
I'll ask him for more details if you want me to...

Mihnea



'85 -OOOO- Coupe quattro

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