Has anyone put a dogbox in thier tranny? Or even put different gears in it?

 

Doubtful - the expense of those transmissions is insane and purely intended for the track. (I know they are available for some Japanese cars, from HKS, for around $20k (not a typo)). As for regearing the transmission, you could possibly do that. I have seen hybridized transmissions where the owner took gearshafts from two or three transmissions built by the same OEM but intended for different cars, and put them together into one gearbox to optimize each ratio. Still, to do it yourself, you need to know what you're doing, and to have it done is gonna be $$$$ due to the amount of time, trial, and error, plus the cost of all the different transmissions you'd need to source gears from. I doubt you're gonna find something like that available, and I'm only slightly more confident that you'd find someone who'd be willing to invest all that time for a potentially fruitless result.

 

I was just thinking how crazy that would be if someone put a dogbox in an A4. Because some of my sabaru friends have dogbox's in their cars, and I have driven them a couple times, and let me tell you its F'ing crazy driving a dog'd suby(fast as fvck). I think for it to be done the 1.8T would have to be turned into a 2.0 strokerhigh revving monster, or someone do a short block swap, and putsomething like a35r onit. Becausefrom my sabaru knowledge (Iknow subys and audis are nothing alike) but from my sabaru knolodge the car hasto be atsomething like7500+rpms for the dogbox to work properly. So right there it’s almost impossible on a stock motorb/c of the rpms that need to be achieved.

 

The engine wouldn't have to be built that way, but putting the money into such a transmission on an engine that wasn't built to at least that level and raced on the track would be a waste. All the dogbox does is give you straight-cut gears with wide spacing on the teeth instead of synchros, so that you can shift safely without using the clutch pedal - the idea is that it gives you a faster shift and less time off the throttle. You can clutchless shift on the stock transmission if you want to, but you need to be good with rev-matching or you'll tear up the synchros pretty quickly.

 

Yeah I have herd you can clutchless shift on our cars. I dont know about you, but i dont want to give it a shot, even though i actually am really good at rev matching. The first try would always be the worst, b/c you know youare going to grind the **** out of your gears. So now the question is, Who has a video of them power shifting thier b6 1.8T, or who has even tried this?

 

Well, I've done it from time to time on this car, but not often. I used to do it a lot in the Z, but that transmission seemed to be more forgiving, and it was also a much more responsive engine than my 2.8 is, so it was easier to do it. I rarely do it in this car, and usually it's a matter of catching myself doing it, more often on upshifts than downshifts. But yeah, it's not really a good technique to get into the habit of.

 

ive tried to clutchless shift a couple times and i cant get it.

 

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