Transmissions and KIT cars

[Peter Golledge]

The Chev small block - Audi trans kit used for the LT-1Q was 
primarily for the Dune buggy crowd.  The 5KQ trans can put 
up with a lot of abuse. :-)

On Thu, 2004-04-01 at 13:57, illuminaudi at comcast.net wrote:
> The latest issue of Grassroots Motorsports has an article on a GT40 kit from Roaring Forties Australia (www.roaringforties.com.au).  The turn-key model's "Getrag five-speed transmission is from an early 1980s Audi 5000 Turbo."  The item states that it has been "flopped to accomodate the GT40's mid-engine configuration."  It also states that the tranny uses a cable shift linkage, so that might help ID it.  I've heard of other kit cars and conversions using the 5kt transmission, usually for the reasons that it is quite robust, and it is relatively cheap (at least one stated this was because the UA debacle severely devalued these cars.)
> 
> Now an AWD GT40...  That would be nice.
> 
> M
> '86 5kcstq
> > > So why did you abandon the torsen swap to your 5k?
> > > 
> > > I have been daydreaming of and am seriously interested
> > > in performing a torsen swap to my '87 4kcsq.  
> > > 
> > > Is this too far fetched?  Is it an easy fit?
> > > 
> > > Regards,
> > > kevin
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Peter Golledge
87 LT1Q, 89 200TQA, 79 Porsche 930