audi a4 engine and 5 speed box in a bay

friend of mine took his 19 diesel out of his bay , and replaced it with an audi a4 turbo diesel with matching 5 speed box , he took me out a run in it , it was mental , sitting crusing at 90 mph , 4 pot landrover front discs to stop it ,the best bit was when over taking some one at top speed and watching their expression at an ole bay taking over and them duken dont to look at their speedo , class , on the engine it had a power steering pump he done away with it and fitted an other altnator up side down to keep the leisure battery on a seperate charge , mental , he then showed me the electric pedal he installed and his gear box linkage set up classsssssssssssssss lol

 

Crazy the things some people do. Lol

 

Love stuff like this

 

now how did he get the gearbox to go forward ? diff flipping?

 

That's what I was going to ask.

 

Nice I like that a lot

 

when i spoke to fellowes about keeping the subaru auto box in they said they would flip the diff so i guess the principle is the same on this?

 

naw no flipping he cut the end of the gear box bell housing off turned it 180 degrees and welded it back on , simple as that i kidd ye not , owen nw
i had no camera with me , it was like a white knuckle ride in alton towers lol

 

Oooooh. Sounds kinda crazy. Video a clip if you are out in it again. Badly wanna see this.

 

I thought gearbox innards are stressed one way, same for diffs....?

Epic stuff in any event!

 

the whole box turned upside down which makes everything go the right way

 

erm..... does that not mean that the oil drain plug is now on the top? would it not also cause problems with the lubricating oil over heating?

 

This is the part that intrigues me - I can see in my minds eye that the driveshafts spin the opposite way if you flip the gearbox - so am unsure how the innards are unaffected if they are stresses.

I'm not looking for flys in the ointment - just curious.

 

The gearbox is still spinning the same way... Just the whole box is now inverted, so what was the left wheel is now the right one...

Another issue I can possibly see, is the box is hanging very low.. So not good in a lowered van!!

 

simple really .....

 

This is the part I'm not getting....if I spin a biro in my hand (to mimic a drive shaft) and then turn it 180 degrees it spins the opposite way.

I'm unsure if drive shaft are stressed directional - there aren't any parts in there that aren't? Appreciate you could swap the drive shafts over.

 

it would if the top was the bottom and the bottom becomes the top, the drive shaft still spins the same way but the box is upside down, your turning it round so the back is the front

 

Ahhhhhh.....dash clever these boffins....so actually it's being rotated as well as spun upside down.....

 

Would that not mean the input shaft would then be pointing to the front of the bus??

EDIT:

Got it. The input shaft is normally pointing to the front. Inverting and rotating gets the shaft pointing to the rear and flips the forward motion the correct way.

Very clever, but amazingly simple at the same time.