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A nice diagram showing the stock R8 exhaust setup versus mine, practically identical pipe lengths from engine to silencer, loving what's going on inside that silencer too, should sound exactly like an R8. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v624/paddy1970/Woodsport%205/R8070087_medium.jpg Actually aft...

Today saw some good progress made on the new exhaust system, just to recap, i'm fitting an R8 rear silencer to get this thing sounding more like it should, the old TVR system was just deafening. I made a mounting bracket for the R8 box and bolted that to the gearbox, the system moves with the engine...

Thankyou Phil, coming from someone like yourself i'm honoured by that (yep i know your background!)

Today saw the old TVR exhaust system removed (just too loud!) and the start of fitment of the Audi R8 system starting with removing the upright supports to my crossbrace (yellow), these were right in the path of the new manifold to silencer pipes. I will redo these to miss the exhaust pipes and repa...

Thanks for the feedback chaps, the engine conversion itself is totally finished right now apart from more mapping time, it runs stinky rich right now on some rough base maps. I'm in the middle of doing the bodywork which is taking a long time to do, i haven't included any of the body stuff in this v...

I thought i'd share my build thread on V8 forum, seems to be some pretty knowledgeable folks here, anyway here is my project. This is my own personal project, not a customers car, so i wanted to do something wild and different, at Woodsport we build the now commonplace mk1 V6's and mk1 turbos so i w...

The Audi V6 is the strongest box they do that will fit with an adapter bellhousing. The adapter is around £600 on its own.

Well the whole conversion will cost thousands, i've £10k in mine.

I thought as much.... well you won't do a conversion like this for anything under £7k even if you do everything yourself, not if you want it to last anyway.

Seriously though if you think an Audi TDI gearbox is too much money at £300 you will never pull this off.

Why would you want to use anything else? The Audi box is cheap, it fits the Audi V8, there's a bellhousing adapter available for the Bmw V12, it's 6 speed, strong, Quaife do an LSD for it, the output shafts are in the right place, an Mr2 turbo driveshaft bolts to it without mods, the list goes on......

No you can't.

What's the propshaft output on a Bmw gearbox going to hook up to? The output itself will be nearly touching the back panel of the car.

You need to use a FWD transmission so the driveshafts are in line with the hubs.

You will spend £7k-£10k putting a V8 into a Mk2 Mr2 in parts alone, personally i'd go for the BMW V12 instead, it's more faithful to the Murcielago replica and will cost the same as going Audi V8. Both Audi V8 and Bmw V12 will have to be mated to the Audi TDI FWD 6 speed gearbox, the Audi will plug ...

Hi, i stumbled on this thread and indeed this forum via google and thought i'd sign up to give my 2p worth. First there's an unbelieveable amount of nonsense being typed here, i know i'm new here and this is my first post but i call a spade a spade.... a V8 in an Mr2 will not upset the handling, onl...