SUGGESTIONS FOR AUTO TRANNY

BigDaddy90Cabby · Post by **BigDaddy90Cabby** » Tue Apr 19, 2005 12:29 am

I have an auto tranny... I dont want to go manual... but I want to be able to manually shift when I need to you know?? any suggestions for a strong tranny?? I plan on uping to 2.0 ABA, will keep the 8v P/P head, will add adj cam gear and 270 cam.

Post by **Calimus** » Tue Apr 19, 2005 12:38 am

I don't suggest manual shifting any VW tranny cept for the tiptronic one's that are made for that. It's a great way to tear up the clutches and races.

But I'm not an auto tranny guy so I might be talking about my butt.

1lowcab · Post by **1lowcab** » Tue Apr 19, 2005 2:12 am

i manual shift my auto trans all the time.... but i'm trying to blow mine up.

one thing i plan to do to my auto trans is try to adjust the shift points so it'll hold a gear a little longer. i also need to mess with the kickdown, i almost have to shove the gas pedal through the floor for it to kickdown.

Post by **Calimus** » Tue Apr 19, 2005 12:40 pm

1lowcab wrote:i manual shift my auto trans all the time.... but i'm trying to blow mine up.

Like I said

BigDaddy90Cabby · Post by **BigDaddy90Cabby** » Wed Apr 20, 2005 9:54 am

1lowcab wrote:i manual shift my auto trans all the time.... but i'm trying to blow mine up.
one thing i plan to do to my auto trans is try to adjust the shift points so it'll hold a gear a little longer. i also need to mess with the kickdown, i almost have to shove the gas pedal through the floor for it to kickdown.

If you get the shift points adjusted let me know what you did, so maybe I can give it a shot. this car changes gear way too soon, and ya, I gotta put my foor through the floor as well to get it to go into passing.

1lowcab · Post by **1lowcab** » Fri Apr 22, 2005 6:22 pm

i'll let ya know. i prolly won't get to mess with it this weekend, going to rain/snow all weekend.

on a side note, i did give the new cam a good test.
i was driving home after work last week and coming up on this long flat piece of road, no cars around so i nail it. it kicked down this time! from about 56mph it jumped to around 90mph and i held it down till 110mph and got scared that a state boy would come over the hill and let off. but at 110mph it was still pulling, HARD! that cam really opened up the top end.

BigDaddy90Cabby · Post by **BigDaddy90Cabby** » Sat Apr 23, 2005 1:01 pm

so when you gonna get a bigger cam?? hehehehehe

Moljinar · Post by **Moljinar** » Tue May 10, 2005 3:47 pm

For good info on the auto tranny use the 83 GTI Bentley. It has all the info you need to adjust/work on one. The Cabby manual simply says "You don't know enough to work on it so don't!"

BTW my auto finally decided to screw me this weekend. Will go in reverse but no forward motion. It could be a valve body clog but I'm betting it's something broken. Look like the great manual tranny swap will begin! I've been hoarding all the necessary pieces for months.

Post by **Calimus** » Tue May 10, 2005 5:26 pm

Well sir, you have a lot of fun with that. But if there are any bits that you are missing, let us know, one of us just might have the parts laying around.

Moljinar · Post by **Moljinar** » Mon Jun 13, 2005 10:33 am

Well, I went ahead and swapped the auto out for a GTI manual 5 speed and it went reasonably well. The biggest hassle is making sure you have all the parts you need before hand cause there's a bunch!

For a write up on it see the Vortex post by me ,
http://forums.vwvortex.com/zerothread?id=2030797

Anyone needing auto tranny parts let me know!

Post by **Calimus** » Mon Jun 13, 2005 12:50 pm

Very cool writeup. Since I haevn't done this before, I was actually surprised by a few things I hadn't thought about, such as the stearing rack difference.

Good writeup.