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Finished my clutch and mated the gearbox to the Rv8 engine, yehaw... Even if I say so myself, once I have cleaned up the welds it will look like a proper job as the 1" worth of Rv8 manual Tx front cover has blended in quiet nicely. Cheers Mark

Okay, finished making my adaption for Audi to Rv8, cost next to nothing so you will have to excuse the scrap yard rust...... I will clean up before proper assembly. I tried the RV8 flywheel but size killed this off so Audi flywheel bolted Rv8 auto TX spacer, turn down to suit and shortened...

Okay, made my adapator today and welded on so looking good for now. The adaptor is the front cut off my scrap Rv8 bell housing, milled down to 1" thick. To align I got a piece of 1/16" ali, then drilled to the dowels on the engine block, then using a ball pein hammer gently tapped out the...

starter motor engine side, when I have welded the adapator plate on where it touches I will chop the old Rv8 housing up to make infills on the gaps (always good to use the same material if possible for strength). I will be including the section that the starter motor pinion lives in, photos due...

Hi Wanni, Thanks for the advise, what I,m hoping to achieve is the flywheel to be in the same relative position as it was on the Audi. Before I removed the bits and bobs I measures the distance from the clutch face of the flywheel to the block, this was 30mm. My challenge will be to...

This is what you get from a ZF auto Range rover, From left to right, Crank adapator Starter ring gear Spacer Torque flex plate Tin top plate I have cut down a manual bell housing for an adaptor, you can see it clamped to front of the Audi bell housing. Its not a bad fit (it connects well...

Hi Yes I agree an spacer does sound very nasty but it will not long bolts extending through spacer, ring gear plate et al to the crank. Rover in there wisdom when fitting the ZH auto boxes into classic rangerovers used two plates, one for torque convertor, one for the ring gear, with a spacer...

Hi Russ, 6mm was just off the top of my head, I will see what plate is available and select something that looks suitable. The flywheel spacer is just to achieve the 30mm from gearbox side of the bell housing adaptor to the front of the flywheel as shown, without it the the flywheel would be...

Hi Chaps, Many many thanks for the useful advise, and very useful pictures above, I,m going the Kiwi Ka/Fred W B way but without the expense. 240mm clutch on Audi flywheel, maybe get a turbo clutch as rated at 220bhp but I,m tight so will see if what I have survives ! The flywheel is rear...

Seeing the above has got me thinking again now, great looking stuff by the way. On Zf auto boxes on RV8's you get a spacer, torque plate with ring gear (seperate plates oddly enough) so I could maybe machine down the Audi flywheel and attach in place of the torque convertor, knock up an...

Hi Chaps, Thanks for the replies, this is indeed a nothing to lose approach but it does seem to have some advantages to me. Transaxle remains standard RV8 clutch/spigot etc remains standard I must admit Fred having pored over you notes on both this and Locost builders although...

Hi all, I have now got my pile of parts together as follows: Rover v8 engine Rover flywheel Rover clutch cover & 10.5" driven plate Various rover gearboxes to supply ali bolt pattern and 1st motion shaft. Audi transaxle Audi clutch cover & 240mm driven plate The rover clutch is larger...

Hi Thanks for he replies. It looks like the 016 will handle the power without any issues, the question on cutting the 016 front cover and welding on the front from a rv8 bell housing is still missing. Anyone tried, I am only talking about cutting it back a couple of inches, effectively...

Hi Chaps, Newbie to the forum, I have serached but not found the answer I,m looking for. Okay I have an old rover v8 on the floor and wish to mate to the Audi 016 box, looking through the archives I see that Fred has made his own adapator but then needed to make a flywheel to match as that...