[Vwdiesel] 5-speed trans wanted
dieseltdi at verizon.net
dieseltdi at verizon.net
Mon Nov 27 20:57:26 EST 2006
AS smokey Yannick (spelling?)used to say, Horsepower sells cars but
torque wins races! The old VW diesel engines put out less than 100
lb/ft of torque, as your gas engine does. the TDI starts around 185
lb/ft and if chipped can easily exceed 200. The one person that I
have followed on the Vortex that used the FF had basically destroyed
it in less than a year and was going to do an 02A swap to bring down
the rpms and match the power band better. Fifth gear on the TDI 02A
is 0.755 with a final drive of 3.157 and that is very different from
the FF or FN. Hayden
On Nov 27, 2006, at 2:47 PM, B & R Decker wrote:
>
> Hi Hayden;
> An FF or FN will take any abuse a TDI can produce. The FF or FN
> tranny made after 08 1980 will have a .71 5th gear with a 3.89
> final and I
> don't think your stock tranny behind your TDI is any taller. Also I
> have run
> many many thousands of miles with an FF with a gas engine running
> about 120
> horses. I can't count how many times I have revved the engine to 6
> grand and
> dropped the clutch in friendly drags. I have an 1800 cc 9 to 1
> compression
> engine with an Audi 90 head 270 cam, TT long down pipe and a 2.25
> exhaust
> system, etc. I believe I'm running about 120 horses. With the
> 195-50-15
> tires I'm running on my 81 pickup 3000 rpm is 73 mph and 70 mph is
> 2865. The
> truck runs well enough that I beat my friends 90 Passat 2 ltr 16
> valve in
> all 5 gears. All the hassle of using the newer tranny isn't going
> to gain
> anything except frustration over using a stock FF tranny that takes
> nothing
> more than one piece of 5 speed linkage to fit in place of the four
> speed.
> I will probably put my diesel pickup on the road by next spring with
> a WVO heated second tank. About the only way the diesel engine will
> pencil
> out is with free or almost free fuel. With the added cost of diesel
> over gas
> at the present time it just doesn't seem to me to be worth the
> problems of
> diesel. I have 120 horse gas engine with lots of acceleration and I
> get 30
> mpg + on the highway the fact that a diesel would get 45 mpg just
> doesn't
> seem to pencil out at the present time. VW diesel engine means
> added cost of
> parts more blown head gaskets and lack of power.
> Brian Decker
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: vwdiesel-bounces at vwfans.com [mailto:vwdiesel-
> bounces at vwfans.com] On
> Behalf Of Hayden Chasteen
> Sent: Monday, November 27, 2006 10:18 AM
> To: vwdiesel at vwfans.com
> Subject: Re: [Vwdiesel] 5-speed trans wanted
>
> The TDI will work with an FN or FF trans but....rpms may be a
> little high
> and more importantly, you will probably tear it apart with the
> torque of the
>
> TDI. In my truck conversion, I used the stock 02A trans from my
> Passat
> Donor car. You will have to source or manufacture mounts for the
> front
> (drivers side) and rear of the trans as the stock ones won't work.
> Look on
> VWvortex, these things come up for sale from time to time on
> there. Then
> you will have to decide if you are going to go with a hydraulic clutch
> system (more fabrication) or switchout for a cable system like was
> used on
> European Eurovans. This uses a mechanism to take the place of the
> hydraulic
>
> actuator, a clutch cable and a transmission mounted cable guide/
> brace (no
> longer available but easy to fabricate). Then you have to mount
> the cable
> shifter and decide if you want it on top of the tunnel or below (I
> opted for
>
> on top). So there are many decisions that will have to be made.
> If you
> have a good sturdy FF or FN available, or can get it rebuilt, then
> you can
> survive with it for a time. Look on my website for more
> information on my
> Caddy TDI swap. Hayden
>
>
> http://mysite.verizon.net/resosxp8/mydieselpages/id14.html
>
>
> "Those who would sacrifice Liberty for Security, deserve neither
> Liberty nor
>
> Security." B. Franklin
> "This country would be a lot easier to run if it were a
> dictatorship....as
> long as I was the Dictator!" Pres. George W. Bush
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <lbaird119 at aol.com>
> To: <donohue at rnetworx.com>; <vwdiesel at vwfans.com>
> Sent: Monday, November 27, 2006 11:40 AM
> Subject: Re: [Vwdiesel] 5-speed trans wanted
>
>
>> Maybe Hayden can pipe in here. :-) You'll want a later, TDI's 5
>> speed
>> to be happy with the
>> whole thing. The TDI likes much lower cruising rpm than the Older
>> IDI
>> engines do. With that
>> comes the cable shifter swap-in also.
>> Loren
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: donohue at rnetworx.com
>> To: vwdiesel at vwfans.com
>> Sent: Sun, 26 Nov 2006 3:07 PM
>> Subject: [Vwdiesel] 5-speed trans wanted
>>
>>
>> Just signed on this list today. Tried to post this want ad
>> earlier, but
>> apparently sent it before I was officially a member! Here goes
>> again. My
>
>> son
>> has an '82 Rabbit pickup in the midst of a TDI engine conversion.
>> The
>> truck has
>> the 4-speed trans and he would like to install a 5-speed...any btdt,
>> advice, or
>> ideas where he might find one? He lives in the San Jose, CA area.
>> Thanks, Tom
>> Donohue
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(making 150 hp with Diesel Power Tuning Box), Blue Graphite,
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1998 Jetta TDI (Wetterauer Chipset, 2 1/2" exhaust, K&N Filter, 140K
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1981 Rabbit Pickup -Awaiting a TDI engine swap with a 96 Passat 1Z
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