You have to have a drive shaft basically custom made for it. OK Don wrote: > If you drove it like you do a 240D (floored, and shift at red line), > it wouldn't drop off the boost curve, and would be even MORE fun :-). > There is more space between the rear of the 616 block and the firewall > than there is with a 617, so I think they balanced the block on the > mounts, or at least kept the weight distribution similar. I'm guessing > that the manual tranny is shorter than an auto, so I don't know how it > would work out. > > Hasn't someone on the list done this already? > > On Dec 21, 2007 9:35 PM, Jim Cathey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> However, if you did use a turbo 617, wouldn't it start from a stop the >>> same as a non-turbo engine, then benefit from the increased torque/HP? >> Yes, but it would fall off boost at each shift. Also, emissions >> are very poor at those times, reputedly another reason they didn't >> ever make turbo stickshift models. >> >>> If one was to undertake this conversion, and given a suitable donor >>> car, wouldn't the drive shaft be the only custom modified part? >> Probably. And maybe not even that. The engine 'grows' towards >> the front, usually. >> >> -- Jim >
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