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Old Jan 30, 2015 | 04:28 PM
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hi all i just bought my car ls7 engine fully modified engine with 550HP
it will arrive tomorrow

but i have few questions ...
will it fit our A6 tranny
if not what mods do i need to do for the tranny and the diff
has any one did this sort of engine swap ?

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Old Jan 31, 2015 | 03:00 PM
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Originally Posted by Wasfi Khundaqji
hi all i just bought my car 454 lsx fully modified engine with 550HP
it will arrive tomorrow

but i have few questions ...
will it fit our A6 tranny
if not what mods do i need to do for the tranny and the diff
has any one did this sort of engine swap ?
Unless it's a 'Tall Deck' LSX block, it's exactly the same size as your stock LS block. Everything will fit!

And if it is a tall deck, there will still be very few/minor issues.....none with the tranny.

What's perplexing is that you didn't verify this before you dropped $12K on the new engine.

KW

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