"Andy Sheehan, StreetsideStig" (AndySheehan-StreetsideStig)
09/17/2015 at 11:36 • Filed to: None
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"Andy Sheehan, StreetsideStig" (AndySheehan-StreetsideStig)
09/17/2015 at 11:36 • Filed to: None | 0
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We’ve all heard of people putting Subaru engines in VWs and trikes and such, but I’ve always wondered how it works. The entire drive train is flipped around backwards. So how does it move forward? You’re not driving in the reverse gear the whole time. Do you have to rebuild the transmission? Or just use the VW transmission? Or is there some kind of reversal gearing? My brain is incapable. I got 3 hours of sleep last night, too, so I have no shame.
(Forgive the crappy video. It won’t let me post pics.)
HammerheadFistpunch
> Andy Sheehan, StreetsideStig
09/17/2015 at 11:45 |
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I too have wondered this, but not enough to actually ask the google. I suspect its just a right hand vs left had transmission.
Takuro Spirit
> Andy Sheehan, StreetsideStig
09/17/2015 at 11:52 |
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Reverse cut ring and pinion gears.
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Andy Sheehan, StreetsideStig
> Takuro Spirit
09/17/2015 at 11:56 |
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Neat! Man, those are not cheap. There goes my 300 hp Brubaker Box.
uofime-2
> Takuro Spirit
09/17/2015 at 12:01 |
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They don’t make gears for the STI 6sp, that’s crazy sauce, those are the ones you’d want.
At the point you’re spending all the money to do this swap, why wouldn’t you pay a little more for the better trans?
TahoeSTi
> Andy Sheehan, StreetsideStig
09/17/2015 at 13:39 |
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You use the front drive shaft and cap off the rear, remember Subaru transmission have to out puts because the center diff is in the transmission. They dont change the rotation of the motor.
PS Andy good to see you again....It’s Bob from MixedBin (BetweenGears)
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TahoeSTi
> Takuro Spirit
09/17/2015 at 13:42 |
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A reverse cut or high pinion gear is just a gear set with a pinion above the center line of the carrier they don’t run in revers.
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Takuro Spirit
> TahoeSTi
09/17/2015 at 13:43 |
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I read the words on the website.
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TahoeSTi
> Takuro Spirit
09/17/2015 at 13:47 |
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I’m just telling you what most people call Reverse Cut gears in the 4x4 world (i obviously didn’t’ click or read the link before you told me to).....but yes those gears are for revers rotation, and would be needed if you were trying to use a non Subaru awd transmission. Most dune buggies and other custom builds just use the front out put shaft of a awd transmission. But if you had to mate it to a factory porches or bug transmission they these gears would work i guess.
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Andy Sheehan, StreetsideStig
> TahoeSTi
09/17/2015 at 14:06 |
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Hey Bob! Good to see you too!