Audi 016 to rover v8 conversion

[mark chandler]

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 the clutch and spigot bush could reach the first motion shaft.

What I am looking to make is a basic single seater, as light as possible aka fomular 3000 for track days and sprints, so it will not be carrying a heavy body.

The RV8 I have is a 4.6, so pushing around 260bhp, will the box from an old 2.3 5 cylinder engine be up to the job ?

I like to make things, but not fly wheels so rather than making an adapator am planning on cutting the front half off a RV8 bell housing (choice of ZP auto or LT77 or early range rover box), cutting the front off the audi box and welding up. Has anyone down this before, if so any tips ?

From the notes searching I only need to pinch 1" so am hopefull this may give a good result.

I have seen this on ford gearboxes to alfa twin spark engines.


Cheers Mark

 

[Pete T]

Do a search on this forum for "016" and you will likely find everything you want to know about the 016.

 

[kiwi ka]

Pete I have had my local engineer turn up an adaptor plate Audi to Rover plus the fly wheel. Ring gears for Manual Rovers are rocking horse #### so I had the adaptor made thick enough to hide the standard auto ring gear in a recess in the adaptor to fit over my custom flywheel. This meant standard starter positions and plenty of auto ring gears available for nix. I can sort out some pics if this is an option. It is deadly accurate for fit. Cheers

 

[mark chandler]

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 welding on the RV8 bolt pattern without adding the width of an adaptor plate ?

Cheers Mark

 

[Jim Cowden]

I have done what you are thinking about.
To get it spot on it takes a jigs and a mill with a digital read out and some cad work.
Then machine work after the fact.
If you want to go that road I can email you how I went about it.

If you can go the adaptor way less work

Jim