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Originally Posted by Goran
If you do decide to give it a go, for the gearbox mounts you could go over to Mike's and measure the factory castings, then just CNC aluminium mounts yourself, should be much cheaper than factory mounts.
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Mike has factory 01E gearbox mounts??? He's not mentioned that before
<gets out the digital calipers...>
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Originally Posted by Goran
We tried it in a shell of a D2 at the A8 parts open day, the clutch pedal cleared all the footwell obstacles. Even the transmission bump does not need removing.
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I didn't know you'd got that far with it. Maybe I'll stop trying to design my own then
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Originally Posted by moltuae
Cost me about 3.5K, inc VAT, but I also had them replace the F125 and check/change the rear diff oil.
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£2100 for the basic rebuild is pretty good actually. If you can remove the box yourself and drop it off with them its definitely going to be cheaper than a manual conversion.