Thanks for the info! The game plan for my car is...
I have stripped it. All that is left to remove are the engine and tranny, and former gas tank. It is going across the state to have a copious amount of body work done. I am having the rear of the cab from a VW caddy pickup installed to separate the cabin from the future engine bay. Also at this point a custom roll cage is being installed. I am currently looking for another donor car to perform a subframe swap into the front of my rabbit (for a donor I need a MK3/MK4 VW Jetta or Golf). These swaps are generally done only to accomodate a larger VR6 engine, but I will be using it, along with the roll cage, to strengthen the unibody car.
One of the reasons I need specs on engine/tranny sizes is because I need to have everything in the rear of the car custom fabricated to hold the 2.5/2.7L engine and gearbox. I need everything from the shifter to the exhaust manifold. The cars are extremely similar in size and this is not as crazy as it sounds.
The final product will be a mid engined, rear wheel drive, (hopefully) 6 speed MK1 GTI. I am building this out of disappoinment in the lack of boxer motors in the VW line. Also to show up some japanese metal (subaru STI).
Everyone give me some resources and I'll mention you when this thing makes it into PVW magazine!
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