[V8] the new guy

[Ron Wainwright]

I just posted about this. As far as I've seen there are 3 people I know of who have done the swap. I personally know one on the West Coast & he loves it. He did it in a A6 4.2 though... not an S8 or A8. he's on motorgeek.

 Ron


--- On Sun, 8/17/08, Kneale Brownson <knealeski at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> From: Kneale Brownson <knealeski at sbcglobal.net>
> Subject: Re: [V8] the new guy
> To: lundabo at msn.com, ron_01056 at yahoo.com, "Kent McLean" <kentmclean at comcast.net>
> Cc: v8 at audifans.com
> Date: Sunday, August 17, 2008, 9:12 AM
> Has anyone converted an S8 to one of the manual trannies
> available for them in Europe?
> 
> lundabo at msn.com wrote:   
> Careful, Ron, on any D2 A8/S8...I posted a couple days ago
> about the tranny problems. I know some people have avoided
> the problems, but not many. It seems to be a design defect.
> Rebuilt trannies will run you about $4,500, unless you live
> near Chicago. There's a guy there who goes by the name
> of Tozo on Audiworld who rebuilds them for about $3,200 and
> is very in tune with upgrades, etc. Everyone who has used
> him is very happy with his work.