Automatic transmission possibilities Options

[Neal]

Hs anyone ever converted from the 901 to an automatic ? If they are available and work ok I could see myself being shiftless in Seattle. This is a dicussion topic so don't flame me for being blasphemes. Sometimes I hate to shift it's that simple.

[Mueller]

Why not use an Audi automatic transaxle?

I'd say anything from the 5000 models to the 80 or 90 series cars all the way to the newest would work. The tiptronics would be nice, but the electronic controls might be too much to work around.

I'm not too sure if a transaxle from a quattro would gain you any additional advantage or not, they might have used different gear ratios than the normal FWD cars.

With an automatic transaxle, everything is built in, so it just a matter of figureing out how to mate the engine to the transaxle.

If you at the same time wanted to do an engine swap, this would be a good setup as well. Use an Audi motor (anything except the straight 5 cyl, nothing wrong with them except for the length) or use a Chevy/Ford V6 or V8 since Kennedy Engineering makes adapter plates for the Audi transaxle.