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Old 20th March 2017, 03:44 PM
MikkiJayne MikkiJayne is offline
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Originally Posted by Goran View Post
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.
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.
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 View Post
Cost me about 3.5K, inc VAT, but I also had them replace the F125 and check/change the rear diff oil.
£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.
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