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Same, I actually sold the car I was working on. One of the biggest ?’s was the gearbox tbh and part of the reason I dropped the project was I needed a high enough revving transmission and it wasn’t feasible to have one custom made not for a car worth less 10k. (At the time probably less than 5k now)...

It’s a thing of beauty, Nick you’re doing the Lord’s work.

Definitely is! But knowing what I do about the similarities and differences between the R8/lambo engine and the s6/s8 engine I thought I’d chime in after the last 2 posts. It’s kinda a project I’ve been considering for a minute and the information you are discovering with your project is of great im...

Yes, they are very different engines the 5.2 v10 in the S6 and the 5.0 tt in the rs6. Although the R8/ lambo heads would bolt directly on the s6/s8 engine block. the cams are completely different. the s6/s8 crank shaft has a split pin where as the R8/lambo 5.2 v10 cranks are a solid pin. So the timi...