don't forget that the shrapnel would cause the wheels to get popped off and sent flying, probably the trailing arms too. and the driveshafts (might still be connected to the wheels) probably break the bench seats in half, too. damn that would be cool to watch, though :) you could get an autobox from one of those "real" busses. the ones that carry a hundred or more people. and even assuming you did get a transmission that wouldn't explode, and Definitely would need better CV shafts... the first time you tried to start off the bus 'd flip itself over backwards on it's roof. (that, too, would be really fun to watch) assuming the impossible, and you made it work, tired of waiting on some slowpoking goober in traffic, just use the insano torgue to raise up the front wheels and set 'em down on the trunk of the car infront of you and push the 'tard at 100mph until you end up climbing over them. Bahahahah. that'll learn 'em. {insert evil grin here} --- Andrew Grebneff <andrew.grebneff@STONEBOW.OTAGO.AC.NZ> wrote: > >So, would I want a diesel tranny or an air-cooled > tranny for that one? My > >guess is that if you had decent tires on it and you > popped the clutch in > >first gear, you would have one or both of the > following results: > >1) Absolutely no wheelspin, a clutch heated to 2000 > degrees, and a fire. > >2) A cataclysmic explosion of the transmission, > throwing shrapnel into > >neighboring states. > > No rear-engine VW trans will handle this engine.
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