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[Goran]

Originally Posted by awolfinsheepsclothes

Goran i'm very disappointed in you for missing this thread!
MikkiJayne I've looked a little at the c6/7 A6 but I've not found any that are perfect yet on the skf website and i'd rather not use spacers.
i did notice 01E sides cover looked the same, but i didn't to want buy a gearbox to find out i was mistaken. i think my fbg has 8 trigger magnets but I've not opened it up yet.
Dave

Lol! I need to be a lot more observant. That's great that the 0A3 fits and has the same bolt pattern. Very tempting in the future to get rid of the 01E.

Originally Posted by 27litres

I just remembered a thread I came across some time ago posted on an unusual forum (not an Audi forum, and not really a car forum - none of us would have any reason to visit it other than courtesy of Mr Google).
You may know of the guy who posted it, he used to frequent the AudiSport forum I think, as he has done a number of B5 A4 V8 conversions in the UK.

Anyhow, a few years back he bought a D2 S8 with the intention to do a RHD manual conversion. He never completed it (or started it AFAIK) as he sold the car.
However he did post the following observations on the oddball forum:




I don't know if this is of any help to either Dave, or MJ, as I'm sure MJ particularly has looked at any number of solutions...

We fitted a RHD stock pedal cluster with all 3 pedals in the shell of a D2 at A8parts open day, it fit just fine the clutch pedal clears everything. Neil posted a photo of it in the other thread.
The beauty of the RHD pedal casting is that it already has room on the shaft for a clutch pedal. The stock brake pedal can be used too, just the foot pad plate needs to be made narrower and either welded on to a different position to give more space between the clutch and brake, or if you have access to a industrial metal bender the brake pedal can be bent to a new shape for the right pad placement. Only the clutch pedal needs to be custom made. And a custom mounting bracket for the master cylinder.

[awolfinsheepsclothes]

I'd already started on the custom gearbox mounts when a pair of skoda superb gearbox mounts appeared on Evilbay! i'd almost given up looking for these. i had done the research and these could fit and a nice off the shelf solution would make this conversion easy and cheap for me and everyone else. £40 delivered it was worth the gamble after all its the same gearbox family. anyway they arrived eventually and i offered them up! only 35mm out in one direction from being perfect. so if the subframe was parallel i could move the rear lower gearbox mounting base (cut it off and reweld) i'm not that keen on that solution . or make a offset base and use the skoda mounts, this easier and cheaper. not many people would want to spend £400-500 on CNC,d gearbox mounts.
Dave

[MikkiJayne]

Ooh good find. I thought everything with that gearbox used the crossmember style mount.

If I understand correctly, you're going to make an adapter piece which will sit between the D2 subframe and the Skoda mounts?

[awolfinsheepsclothes]

Yes between the subframe and the gearbox mounting rubbers

[Goran]

Originally Posted by awolfinsheepsclothes

Yes between the subframe and the gearbox mounting rubbers

Are the S8 01E gearbox mounts no longer available from the dealer?
I cant remember how much they were, something around £100?

[awolfinsheepsclothes]

Hi Goran I'm not sure they'd fit my gearbox (I did think I'd checked) but maybe I didn't! Do they look the same fitment to you?
Dave

[awolfinsheepsclothes]

These are the RS4 ones

[MikkiJayne]

Pretty sure they are different. I can have a look later though.

[Goran]

Originally Posted by awolfinsheepsclothes

Hi Goran I'm not sure they'd fit my gearbox (I did think I'd checked) but maybe I didn't! Do they look the same fitment to you?
Dave

Hi Dave, sorry I completely forgot you have a 0A3.
I guess it has to be some customization to fit it onto a D2 subframe.
Shame machining costs are so much. Random crazy idea, I have seen home made foundrys on google that can cast aluminium, but I'm not sure how easy it is to cast the right grade or how strong such low pressure castings would be? Perhaps Audi's castings are under pressure and denser/stronger?

[MikkiJayne]

They look sand-cast so nothing out of the ordinary. Just webs where the strength needs to be. Problem with that for short runs is that you do need to machine the mounting points after casting.

Tbh I'd just make them from aluminium stock. Make a mockup from MDF, then transfer that to aluminium bar or plate, then take the pieces and get them tig welded. If they become NLA I'll copy the factory 01E mounts like that by making a steel jig. Get the alu parts laser cut, bolt them to the jig and get them tigged together.

Extrapolating, you could make them from steel even more easily, and if you used thin wall tube with bracing you'd be maybe 2-3 times the weight of an alu part, but overall still far lighter than the 5hp24