'If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find them, maybe you can join...THE LATE BAY....' They don't let any old riff raff in you know @rstucke ! Welcome along from Derbyshire
yeh I feel privileged to be among you reprobates' I need to find an avitar and was thinking of starting an engine build thread. I have a few I'm doing. Two STD 2ltr to sell and one I'm building for myself, it'll be large and angry But I'm slow so it'll take a while. I love air cooled and would never consider Subaru engines, but am engineering their transmission to fit a type4 engine.
Once you've got an adapter plate sorted out that would be potentially viable commercially? you could do a nice line of type 4 powered foresters - there are probably lots of those sitting in scrap yards without engines..
Why on earth would you want to go a do a thing like that Interested in the engineering and the way a type4 would push the trans along. If it's a monster engine it makes some sense. @pkrboo has a subarugears box mated to a scooby engine. That works well now the lever to box joint has been re-engineered Not a lot wrong with a good CT 091 box with 4.57 final drive and .88 4th. Still pulls the same revs at say 60mph cruising speed regardless of the engine. Torque is the killer on VW transaxles though
simple answer 5 speeds Here in Oz we have a freeway up and down nsw posted speed limit is 110km/hr If your doing that someone will run up your arse Average speed is 120-125 km/hr We sit on 120 with the engine I built a few years ago about 3900rpm on the tacho. We do these speeds to get out of the area and into the country areas we like to travel and camp in. The engine has done 30,000 km and going strong. But I need a 5th that is just a little higher than what we have (3400 would be good) I need a 4th just slightly lower than what we have. My engine atm is stronger than a 2ltr, pulling up the dividing range shows the weight in a camper. 4th and 3rd would be good here but at the moment it's 3rd and 2nd (revving the arse off the engine).The gap between gears is too great to survive in modern motoring. Max air flow over the fins is around 2800 to 3600 rpm. I gonna build max torque in the next engine around those figures and work the gearbox ratios to suit. I'm working with Subarugears in Western Australia to tweek there stuff and mine
Great stuff Exciting when someone does something a bit different to the norm. Will be really interested to see this develop. We have the option of a few aftermarket mainshafts to change the gearing of first and second on the T3 syncro, and if course a huge range of 3rd and 4th gears, but as you say a cruising 5th for distance work would be ideal on the freeway. The bay is a little more limited but we don't have the vast distances here in Europe to cover like you do in Aus or the USA for that matter. Let me know when you post a thread on this, will follow with interest..
I tried to keep it vw by using a 091 5 speed (I have 2) but in order to use it I would have to move the engine back 50mm or re situate the rear torsion bar housing. Wasn't happy with either of those. The subie box is smaller and they tell me it can handle 300hp+ Will start the thread soon (Im into the early stages)
And by the way I have a torque biasing diff housing for the Subie. The turn around crownwheel and pinion is coming (really don't want 5 reverses and 1 forward)
As Neil says its good to watch (from afar) when someone does something different. I'll look forward to seeing your thread. Good luck
Working on it at the moment I have a list of box numbers and ratios, non of which show the Legacy box I have (American site) Before I disassemble the box and count the teeth in each gear I want to make sure the box marries up to the engine and new starter motor which it didn't on the fist iteration here's a pic Since this disaster a new bespoke flywheel is in and OK (almost) Starter motor will be tested tomorrow and if all ok the transmission will be stripped and gears counted then on to the final final drive ratio that will be ordered along with the other stuff that will turn the transmission around. I'll start a thread in the appropriate area in the next couple of days and ask to move some of this stuff across. You guys have got a site that works very similar to the site I'm used to on the Australian Kombiclub site back here. You don't have the titles under your avitar like we do so I don't know who the moderators are that can move things around. And for all you EU reculsitrants my given name is Reinhard. I was born in Deutchland but relocated to Oz when I was 3 hence understand German but have difficulty speaking it, been back a few years ago for a 4000km road trip. Sh#t scared driving on the wrong side of the road! I've got more family over there than I know (some even work for the VW plant) cheers or should I say Tschuss (I don't know where the umlaut is on this keyboard)
Hello and Welcome from The Colonial Contingent I'm in OZ, way down south in the Southern Alps / Snowy Mountains.
Jindabyne, Thredbo, Perisher Cancoban or Adaminaby? Ride with the Ulysses club through the area in summer on our way down to Phillip Island in Victoria to watch the GP (although not last year)
