Re: [Amc-list] Audi Grem Bell Bolt Pattern

[Jim Blair <carnuck@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

My son's ex-GF's uncle has a bunch of ex-postal DJ trucks 
(my son and I bought 1 each from him before the breakup) Ours 
have the AMC inline 6 (mine had the 232 with 727 trans, my son's
had the BW auto on later model 258) He still has 2 rigs left.
One is the Chev 4 cyl Iron Duke and still runs ice cream around 
and the other has the Audi motor and a bad carb. (I made a deal 
to swap him a rusted out 924 with auto trans he's going to take
the EFI from. His is a 5 speed and he claimed 28 mpg before the 
carb went bad)


From: adh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Sandwich Maker)
Subject: Re: [Amc-list] Audi Grem Bell Bolt Pattern
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Message-ID: <200803271700.m2RH06I14751@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
 
" Brien Tourville <hh7x@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
"   
" Ok - AMC trivia Question time:[
" 
" 
" What is the Bell housing Bolt Pattern
" for the Audi 4 in the Gremlin of 1978 - Audi-PORSCHE ?
" 
" This would be the same then as the 924-944-964 - correct ?
 
924 - si; that's the old audi engine
944/964 - no; that's a slant 4 derived from the 928 v8, and btw the
blocks are reynolds 390 aluminum like the chevy vega's.
 
" From: Greg Taylor <amundaza@xxxxxxxxx>
" 
" Brien,
"   I remember hearing years back that it was the same engine (design)
" as used in the Porsche and could therefore be hopped up with Porsche
" parts.  Hopefully Andrew can chime in here with his technical info.
 
afaik that's a yes; late '60s - mid '70s audi stuff too.
 
i don't actually know the bolt pattern, except no other amc uses it.
interesting to imagine a porsche or audi 5sp along with bosch efi...
i think the 924 had a transaxle like corvettes now do.
 
" From: Frank Swygert <farna@xxxxxxx>
" 
" WOW!! What a question!! I can only say -- I have no idea. As far as I
" know AMC never cast their own blocks, but I could be wrong. They
" machined them, but the castings came from Germany. I know some parts
" came from Germany, and a few were made over here. AMC originally
" intended to get the tooling and such for castings, but never got
" production up enough to do so. But casting molds aren't expensive or
" hard to ship, so they may have cast the blocks and used a different
" bolt pattern for the bell. I don't know of anyone who would know!
" Only used 2-3 years, and not a lot of cars sold/left with it. 
 
as i heard it, audi was giving the engine line up and going with vw
mills, so vw/audi thought it'd be surplus to their needs.  the 924
wasn't really supposed to happen!  when it did, they obviously
couldn't let go of it as they thought; this may be the reason amc
dropped it.
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