020 gearbox

[m_eventos]

Does anybody know if somebody makes a straight cut gearkit for the 020 box?

[Bill Miller]

They are available. Not sure if they're an off-the-shelf product anymore though. IIRC Quaife used to sell a couple of different sets. I'm sure you can get them made from Taylor or Housman. I'd check the Prod and GT sites, as well as www.vwvortex.com

Get ready to open your wallet!

[Knestis]

You might also work back to Great Britain, to the rally biz.

K

[mrjones2]

If you find one, let me know :)

Ideally looking for dog engagement, but SC would be a start. (prod application) I've seen them for the cable shift transmissions, but I thought that would be too much hassle.

Kendall

[shwah]

There are sources that will put a dog box (I want to say a Hewland, but don't recall right now) in an 020 case. Mucho expensivo.

[OTLimit]

Very expensive. When we were looking for the Prod car, it was going to be $3-7000 to get straight cut gears (lower end $) or dogring in the 020 gearbox, with the caveat that it could be more. No one would give us a real price.

Didn't seem feasible (or reasonable), so we didn't go there.

[Joe Camilleri]

This guy found a pretty sweet one.

http://www.rennfotos.de/videos/paulitsch_rennsteig_2007.wmv

[OTLimit]

Based on just how that car looks, I'd say his gearbox is out of our league. Unless, of course, Chris decides to be a "real" prod driver and only do four national starts a year, finish three, and then go the Runoffs with his sweet new gearbox. Maybe those 3 extra weekends (plus half of his regional schedule---or more) and he could afford it.

[Bill Miller]

Based on just how that car looks, I'd say his gearbox is out of our league. Unless, of course, Chris decides to be a "real" prod driver and only do four national starts a year, finish three, and then go the Runoffs with his sweet new gearbox. Maybe those 3 extra weekends (plus half of his regional schedule---or more) and he could afford it.
[/b]

[homer simpson voice]sequential gearbox, yummm [/homer simpson voice]

[evanwebb]

Holy Crap that scirocco was awesome!

[mrjones2]

Cool, but not a 020 box :(

That looked like a cable shift sequential box

http://www.autotech.com/quaife/transmissions/fwd/32g.htm

Kendall

[racer_tim]

Like Leslie said, the box is only about 4x what I have in the entire car.

Is it possible to build a $4k car around a $18k gearbox?

As soon as I win the lottery

[rabbidmk1]

Colotti Transmissions in Italy builds them, but again they are quite expensive. Here is a response from the owner of the company to my inquiry of pricing...



Dear Mr.Aaron Stehly
thanks so much for our request
We do not have Customers in U.S.A., because we directly sell our products.
T.308 have several ratios, and you can choose every ratios you prefer, for the
final drive too.
We have ready in stock the limited slip differential for your car and the net
price is so nice, this products is called T.223, coppia frenata differential,
and you can read the technical specifications on our web site under the voice
"patent"
These following are the net prices, in Euro, and do not include the shipping.

Type net price delivery time
T.308 6.200,00 45 days from order
T.223 900,00 ready in stock

I wait for your kindly reply

Best regards
Paolo Colotti
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I thought it was cool that Paolo, the owner responded. Kinda makes you realize that in Italy it can still be a one man shop!

Here is the web link.

colotti transmissions (http://www.colotti.it/Engl/VolskE.htm)

[BlackVR6]

Kraftswerks in Cali is run by a south african guy that has been building vw race trannies for years. I had trouble locating his website which is realy a great resource as it has all the gear ratios and combinations of final drives including the cars and years that they came in. Here's what I was able to dig up for you on them.

32981 9th Ave.
Winchester, CA 92596 US - map it
Phone: (714) 901-5055
Fax: (714) 897-9792
Website: Go to Kraftswerks's website
Description: Kraftswerks & Kraftswerks Parts offer - Rebuilt transmissions for Volkswagen Rabbits, Sciroccos, Golfs, Jettas, Corrados and Passats. Stock, fuel economy, performance optimizing and six-speed units available.

[OTLimit]

Kraftswerks in Cali Kraftswerks & Kraftswerks Parts offer - Rebuilt transmissions for Volkswagen Rabbits, Sciroccos, Golfs, Jettas, Corrados and Passats. Stock, fuel economy, performance optimizing and six-speed units available.
[/b]

This is the guy who doesn't return phone calls and when you do get in touch with him, he doesn't really do what he claims. Been there, done that.

[m_eventos]

Thanks guys for all the info, I have another question, anybody running and electromotive ignition on their 16V, I need to make the plug wires to be able to plug them to the coil packs, anybody know where I can get the wire terminals for the 16v plug end, or if somebody sells the wires alllready make.
thanks

[BlackVR6]

Sorry to hear the Kraftswerx guy is flaky. I've used his index of gear ratios and models for a number of tranny builds....

Check out JEGS for the plug goodies a friend just converted his VR6 over to MSD and got all the goodies from them. Pretty cheap if I'm not mistaken. I have a set of Nology 16v wires that need one of the plug ends fixed that you could have for the cost of shipping if you want. [email protected]