re.putting a auto trans in a '91 20VTQA

[Ben Swann]

IMO sounds like an awful waste of time and ruination of an otherwise nice 
car.  there are plenty of fwd automatic cars out there, wagons too and some 
even have decnt interiors - maybe not quite up to Audi standards, but this 
sounds like way too much trouble.

If you do go with this, I am pretty sure you'll need to install a auto trans 
from a V8 so it can take the torque.

Just my opinion.

Ben

[Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 11:46:36 EST
From: JordanVw at aol.com
Subject: putting a auto trans in a '91 20VTQA
To: quattro at audifans.com
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im thinking about getting a '91 20VTQA.. i found one cheap.    i have no 
need
for the quattro system. but i like the 5cyl turbo..  and i want a wagon.
unfortunately audi never made a 2wd automatic turbo type 44 wagon.

at any rate, i was wondering how feasable it would to be to dump the 5spd
trans, remove the driveshaft and install an automatic from a same year 200 
2wd?
id have to install the auto trans linkage to the shifter, remove the front 
diff
and install the automatic CV axles and prolly just leave the rear diff in
there with the driveshaft off.
ps, yes i can drive a 5spd, i have other manual trans cars, i just want a
turbo automatic type44 wagon and could care less if its a quattro..   a 
number of
years ago my buddy Ian on here changed his '85 5kT from an auto into a 5spd,
so i know its doable..

any comments or ideas?   ps, no snide comments about automatics.  i have
owned type 44 automatics since 1988 ('84 5kT was my first car when i was 16) 
and
my 5kT automatic  got 160k mi w/. no tranny problems until it was wrecked. 
my
current 86 5kT automatic has never had any tranny problems either. ]