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Message: I am told ...
Changed By: grant
Change Date: December 31, 2016 03:00PM
I am told ...
Change Date: December 31, 2016 03:00PM
I am told ...
that aside from configuration of exterior parts for the shifter and mounting to the motor, this is the same transmission used up to the 3.6L carerra (996)... and ditto the CVs (though not the half-shafts obviously). I do have a new set of driveshafts so that I can swap them while performing maintenance on the alternating set.
You realize this is an "S" car? - so it has supposedly the same gearbox as the 996 (G86/20; G96/20) rather than the Audi 5-speed (G86/00), and it has the large CVs with 10mm bolts, not the (6mm?), lighter duty driveshafts used in the base.....? Having one of each i now how different the size and weight is - vastly stouter than on the base.
As i understand it, the "S" model was created basically by raiding the 996 (non-S) parts bin and bolting those parts on the 986. Certainly true for the calipers which retain the 996 part number, and the CV bolts which also do.
Note that the smaller (5-sp) has been successfully used in heavily modified Audis, and in a few cases, with Audi 4.2 V8s in boxsters (I want one...). And those have more torque than I will.
So no, i had not considered doing so. GBOX did not suggest it either, and they know how its being used.
G
ps: do you have a brother, Steve?
You realize this is an "S" car? - so it has supposedly the same gearbox as the 996 (G86/20; G96/20) rather than the Audi 5-speed (G86/00), and it has the large CVs with 10mm bolts, not the (6mm?), lighter duty driveshafts used in the base.....? Having one of each i now how different the size and weight is - vastly stouter than on the base.
As i understand it, the "S" model was created basically by raiding the 996 (non-S) parts bin and bolting those parts on the 986. Certainly true for the calipers which retain the 996 part number, and the CV bolts which also do.
Note that the smaller (5-sp) has been successfully used in heavily modified Audis, and in a few cases, with Audi 4.2 V8s in boxsters (I want one...). And those have more torque than I will.
So no, i had not considered doing so. GBOX did not suggest it either, and they know how its being used.
G
ps: do you have a brother, Steve?
Original Message
Author: grantDate: December 31, 2016 02:58PM
I am told ...
that aside from configuration of exterior parts for the shifter and mounting to the motor, this is the same transmission used up to the 3.6L carerra (996)... and ditto the CVs (though not the half-shafts obviously). I do have a new set of driveshafts so that I can swap them while performing maintenance on the alternating set.
You realize this is an "S" car? - so it has supposedly the same gearbox as the 996 (G86/20; G96/20) rather than the Audi 5-speed (G86/00), and it has the large CVs with 10mm bolts, not the (6mm?), lighter duty driveshafts used in the base.....? Having one of each i now how different the size and weight is - vastly stouter than on the base.
Note that the smaller (5-sp) has been successfully used in heavily modified Audis, and in a few cases, with Audi 4.2 V8s in boxsters (I want one...). And those have more torque than I will.
So no, i had not considered doing so. GBOX did not suggest it either, and they know how its being used.
G
ps: do you have a brother, Steve?
You realize this is an "S" car? - so it has supposedly the same gearbox as the 996 (G86/20; G96/20) rather than the Audi 5-speed (G86/00), and it has the large CVs with 10mm bolts, not the (6mm?), lighter duty driveshafts used in the base.....? Having one of each i now how different the size and weight is - vastly stouter than on the base.
Note that the smaller (5-sp) has been successfully used in heavily modified Audis, and in a few cases, with Audi 4.2 V8s in boxsters (I want one...). And those have more torque than I will.
So no, i had not considered doing so. GBOX did not suggest it either, and they know how its being used.
G
ps: do you have a brother, Steve?