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#61 ·
Well the syncro stuff will bolt up to a Corrado, but you can't fit a 944 (or Audi) transmission to it. Its designed for a very small diff which hangs under a large crossmember so theres no space. Very similar to the Quantum Syncro actually.
 
#62 ·
Thanks Henka -

I was thinking the torsion bars would go for sure...

have a complete QSW rear assembly in stock... (1986 b2 Passat Syncro Wagon)

also will have a 944 ('85) stored in the garage soon for reference... promised my friend it would not have a Corrado body on it when he comes to fetch it in the spring :p

will do lots of measuring and sketching to try and determine best path... with a degree of difficulty in line with my limited (but improving) design and fab skills...

Just dawned on me that maybe the 944 trailing arms might possible swap into a QSW... possible path to wind up with a 5 x 112 bolt pattern on my other project...
 

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#63 ·
WAUG0806 said:
Just dawned on me that maybe the 944 trailing arms might possible swap into a QSW... possible path to wind up with a 5 x 112 bolt pattern on my other project...
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...if you redrill them from the 5-130 Porsche pattern, yes...
 
#64 ·
MikkiJayne said:
Well the syncro stuff will bolt up to a Corrado, but you can't fit a 944 (or Audi) transmission to it. Its designed for a very small diff which hangs under a large crossmember so theres no space. Very similar to the Quantum Syncro actually.
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QSV diff is same as 4kQ.

Yes, that true - but modding the diff mount off a syncro os easier than doing it from scratch I believe - you can do it without cutting up your Corrado... Plus, you have the mounintg points in the car, "all" you need to do is cut up the floor.
 
#65 ·
You can't fit the syncro beam without cutting the floor out of the Corrado. The wheel well has to go to clear the beam and diff, and a crossmember which is NLA must be fitted to support the beam. You pretty much have to buy an entire Syncro Golf and cut it up to get the parts, and the geometry on the syncro beam is pretty poor at anything other than stock ride height.

Fitting a B3 front subframe to the rear of the Corrado is (IMO) an easier and better way of supporting the transaxle and suspension than trying to mod a syncro beam to support the transaxle. With the sort of power I'll be putting through this thing I think I'd rather have proper wishbones with decent geometry rather than the syncro trailing arms :thumbsup:

It will all make more sense when I can get hold of the few parts I'm mssing and can start mocking things up :)
 
#67 ·
You could do what I was going to do in the beginning.

I planned on removing only the necessary original body material then welding in some subframes of sorts made of mild steel tubing and plate that all the other car parts would bolt to, sort of like what this gut did
http://forums.vwvortex.com/zerothread?id=2583054&page=1

There are a lot of good suspensions out there that use subframes that you could modify to fit the 944 trans then bolt into your newly fabbed frame structure.

The bottom line is this is there is no easy way to do this.
it will involve a substantial amount of fab work and a little ingenuity.

In case you haven't seen it, this is what I ended up doing.
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This is all the further I am with the chassis.
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bullmoose said:
Clutch plate is one off an Audi 2.8 V6. Has the same outside diameter as the stock 7A plate but fits the 944 transaxle.
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Just to clarify this - are there several different sizes of input shafts on Audi transmissions? I took the clutch off my V6 TDI today, which has an 01E, but the spline is too small to fit the 944 torque tube.

Also checking at the other end the coupler from the 944 torque tube appears to be too large for the 012 which I'm using at the rear.

This sort of implies that the 2.8 V8 gasser has a larger input shaft than everything else, including the V6 TDI (which has more torque!). Can anyone confirm that please?

Tia, Mikki x
 
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