Thanks! I thoroughly enjoyed the build and driving the car with the box.

 

cheers, means a lot

 

What was the reason for doing it with audi rear diff, not the impreza one?

 

Direction of rotation is wrong

 

LOL. As reasons go, that's a very good one!

 

I'm imagining a huge tug of war involving one car

 

Correct!

 

Two years later and about 20,000 miles this conversion is still going strong

 

Excellent!! How much torque are you sticking through it now? No more drive shaft trouble?

 

in the region of 400ftlb (forged 2.5 on meth) made a set of decent shafts and actually twisted them a full turn! So now I've widened the track and I am using oe WRX shafts with modified inner cv's, much simpler!

 

Great read on a Sunday morning, kudos to you sir......great skills!!

 

thanks! I have recently changed the gearbox over to an allroad 2.7 biturbo one, going from a potential 236mph sixth (pretty unusable) to a more acceptable 150mph sixth makes the car make more drivable. Top gear is the same as a U.K. Sti, but the 1-6 gears are much more evenly spaced.

 

Also knocked up a new flywheel to take an Oe RS4 organic clutch

 

Not read the entire thread, but you have some great skills and patience

I did ponder the idea of the Audi tiptronic box, auto for pootling around and sequential gear change when you want to take control, but after reading this I think that would be a nightmare to do not sure how strong the tiptronic box would be?

 

It's just a ZF autobox. Heavy AF.

 

Sorry to bring up a relatively old thread but can you pm me boosted, I have a couple questions about the conversion

 

i want to do a tdi outback but dont want to deal with the adaptor plate to the tranny cant i just transplant a 5 speed vw tranny that woulkd bolt right up to the tdi? obviously there would be some other adapting forthe axels and stuff?