Date:         Mon, 23 Nov 1998 19:00:56 -0600
Reply-To:     Joshua Van Tol <jjvantol@USWEST.NET>
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From:         Joshua Van Tol <jjvantol@USWEST.NET>
Subject:      Re: Limited Vanagon content: using reverse running transaxles
Comments: To: David Marshall <vanagon@VOLKSWAGEN.ORG>, vanagon@vanagon.com
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>Personally I would investigate making the Audi transmission go in reverse.
>As there are too many unknows in making the making a water-cooled VW engine
>spin in reverse.  My next question is, of one can make an Audi transmission
>spin in reverse, can you make the rear differential of a Quattro function
>correctly in reverse?  If so this would solve a lot of dead VC problems and
>give us a much better 4x4 system.

The zexel center diff in a quattro works exactly the same forward or
backwards. I happen to know this because some friends of mine were building
a SAE racer, and were going to use one of these, and in reverse no less.
There was some question at first to whether the limited slip function would
be lost, but it turns out that's not the case.

Joshua Van Tol -- jjvantol@lear.csp.ee.memphis.edu