6spd tranny?

[eperson@students.uiuc.edu (Eric Person)]

Yep, Option-6 would indicate its a 6-speed.  I believe thats the brand of
the conversion kit, made by VL enterprises.

Eric Person
86.5 16v

>stamped option-6. any ideas or recognition? also, the head on this motor 
>appears to be "shorter" then the stock heads we have sitting around, but 
>it's got the standard vw made in germany stamps. any ideas?
>  brett
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>>From: Michael Carlson <m-carlson@comcast.net>
>>To: brett cooke <vwscir88@hotmail.com>
>>CC: scirocco-l@scirocco.org
>>Subject: Re: 6spd tranny?
>>Date: Thu, 07 Mar 2002 06:46:45 -0600
>>
>>Sorry I'm a little late jumping into this thread--I was unsubbed for 
>>several
>>days...
>>
>> > ihave no idea exactly what i've got right now, i had to work this
>>afternoon
>> > so i had lil' time to play with it. i knew it had something when i saw 
>>the
>> > tranny sticking through the inner wheel well, i damn does that 8v have
>>some
>>
>>Aha!  That's a pretty good clue that it actually does have the 6-speed
>>conversion.  For pics of my 4K 6-speed (w/Quaife--moohooha!), go to
>>http://www.divergent.org/mikes.vws/Sonja/Pictures.htm and scroll down 3 or 
>>4
>>pics.
>>
>>If it's a V.L. Enterprises Option-6 conversion, the code on the tranny
>>housing will have the letters "VLE" plus some other stuff I can't recall
>>right now.  (I'd have to take a peek at mine to see what it says--I just
>>remember that it doesn't have the normal 4K code on it anymore.)
>>
>>Mike Carlson
>>'84 Scirocco Wolfsburg Edition
>>'95 GTI VR6
>>http://www.divergent.org/mikes.vws/
>>
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