Ron Earp
Admin
016 Drivers/Owners
I'd like to get some feedback from owners and drivers of the 016 Audi box behind a domestic V8 engine. The 016 gets a lot of bad remarks, but, a lot of the remarks many times come from people who have not owned the box, nor driven it, nor spent any time with it. Sorry, don't mean to offend, just trying to eliminate some bench racing bias before starting.
I know that there is one certain track car in Detroit that has an 016 and has many track hours with no failure - with a 500+ hp motor in front of it. I also know that one of the Audi boxes I supplied to a RF owner was destroyed in repeated full throttle drag launches, which might be expected of a lot of transaxles and not isolated to an 016. I know they are probably not ideal, but I'm trying to get some real world data on them - failures, problems, prevention, etc.
I know that many of the early CAVs, before the new CAV company, were sold with Audi/016 boxes. I saw many of them back when traveling around the country 3-4 years ago. RF's used them almost exclusively. I'd like to hear how folks have made out and what experiences they have had. I'm seriously not interested in a debate about which gearbox is best, just real data from folks using the 016.
Thanks,
Ron
I'd like to get some feedback from owners and drivers of the 016 Audi box behind a domestic V8 engine. The 016 gets a lot of bad remarks, but, a lot of the remarks many times come from people who have not owned the box, nor driven it, nor spent any time with it. Sorry, don't mean to offend, just trying to eliminate some bench racing bias before starting.
I know that there is one certain track car in Detroit that has an 016 and has many track hours with no failure - with a 500+ hp motor in front of it. I also know that one of the Audi boxes I supplied to a RF owner was destroyed in repeated full throttle drag launches, which might be expected of a lot of transaxles and not isolated to an 016. I know they are probably not ideal, but I'm trying to get some real world data on them - failures, problems, prevention, etc.
I know that many of the early CAVs, before the new CAV company, were sold with Audi/016 boxes. I saw many of them back when traveling around the country 3-4 years ago. RF's used them almost exclusively. I'd like to hear how folks have made out and what experiences they have had. I'm seriously not interested in a debate about which gearbox is best, just real data from folks using the 016.
Thanks,
Ron