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The tranny is from a Cougar turbo coupe...may have been a mistake, but the price was right and I believe it has the highest overdrive ratio available. Input shaft is 1 1/16 10 spline w/ 15 mm pilot (three cheers) Not concerned about close ratio gears, it's the overall that's a problem. Trying to get...

:) Thanks Piper, info makes my life much easier. Have a junk gas long block to use for mocking up and just acquired a T-5 yesterday. Will be looking at adapting over the next few weeks. Any info you can share would be very helpful. Since our project is a race car (Bonneville) plan to use a Tilton 7....

:D Thanks, plan is to use a T-5 gearbox behind the VW diesel..will let you know how that works out...can see some starter motor issues looming, but working with some very sharp machinists who are good problem solvers. Again, is there is a particular version of the TDI engine that is best suited to l...

:?: Building a TDI powered race car (rear wheeel drive) and have a 1.5 liter gas block to use as a dummy for chassis layout...Question: Are the block to transmission bolt patterns the same on all the VW crosswise mounted 4 cyl. engines? That is, can I use the engine I have as a pattern to build my t...