[V8] Transverse V8

[Carlie Bentley]

Actually, I think it might be well served to use the 016 Transmission, 
not sure what it was available in, but if you're going to do the Rabbit 
truck (Dasher?) You could make it a very well balanced Mid Engine Rear 
Drive and have the V8 Mounted Longitudinally. Really placing the engine 
in the middle of the little wabbit. The 016 Might be a Quattro tranny, 
but there might be a 2 wheel drive 5 speed Audi variant that would 
accept the motor with only the change of a fly wheel.
Jeremy Ward wrote:

>That's how I was thinking about doing the VW caddy (rabbit) pickup. 
>http://www.scirocco16v.com/misc_gallery/waterfest2000_043.jpeg
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>Question is, which FWD 5-spd tranny would you use on the PT motor?  I
>was thinking the radiator would obviously stay up front (long rad hoses,
>plenty of phosphate-free fluid), no power steering (the front end would
>be pretty light anyway), who needs AC on da project car...  Fuel tank? -
>try to stick with the stock setup, or place a fuel cell somewhere?
>Would it be dangerous to place it in the gaping hole up front, in the
>event of a head on collision?
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>Someone needs to write a letter to Jesse James and see how many of us we
>can get on an episode of Monster Garage :-)  Or perhaps we need our own
>Discovery Channel show called "Sprockets"; we could dress like Dieter
>and have our own monkey! Heh heh :-)
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>Dave, I like the idea of finding the 4.2 which *would* free up a 3.6 for
>the scirocco...
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>- Jeremy
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