5 speed

[bullittrob]

yeh yeh i know it must be on here somwhere but whats the best,cheapest 5 speed option for my 56,.,.,.anyone?

also cheapest way for good power,,ie 2ltr plus?

[Glenn]

Get a used and beat up Porsche 901 5 speed and fabricate all the mounts and linkage yourself.

Oh... you'll have to convert your car from swing axle to IRS.

And after all that you have a used and beat up tranny with 5 gears.
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[chrisflstf]

Cheap and best dont usually go together. You need to choose 1 or the other

[Matthew]

There is no cheap solution to either of your questions.

The only real bolt-in option is a berg 5 speed and 2 + liters of displacement. If you budget about $10K for the two you will be off to a good start. If you want cheaper than that the only other option is to sell your vw and by a used Subaru car.

Why do you want a 5 speed? If it is to "overdrive" the car then that is a whole other can of worms to tackle. You have to have the revs up for the cooling fan to turn fast enough to handle the heat load at a given speed.
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[Glenn]

[Matthew]

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[vwracerdave]

There is a rumor floating around that a company is working on having a "Made In China" clone of the Berg 5 speed trans built
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[Bruce]

It wouldn't surprise me.
If you design a product, then can't keep inventory on the shelf, eventually someone is going to go somewhere else to get it made.
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[Glenn]

[vwracerdave]

There is no point is talking about what could have been or should have been. If the Berg family would have all worked together and operated their buisness to its maximum potential, they all would be millionaires.
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[mcmscott]

Had a customer with a Berg 5 that had puking problems(we fixed it), Berg told him that your not supposed to drive on the freeway much(2-3) miles at a time

[mark tucker]

Family's &running a bizz don't usually work out real well.but some do.
I wish my pro street plus was a 5 speed like it was started as,but things change and got in a hurry,shelf stock is always a good thing,and back order is always bad.wonder why that is?And now it sits hear not being used at all for 2 years now,due to it taking almost 3 months longer than it should of,so another trans had to go in after 6 weeks of wearing out my shoes.Sometimes no matter witch way you turn it's the wrong way.

[the2ndcashboy]

[Glenn]

Kind of hard to put a 100,000 miles on a Type 1 tranny to work all the kinks out of it before selling your first one.

While not prefect out of the box, it's certainly better than Microsoft and Apple, that rush products to market.

Mine had 40,000 miles on mine and if it wasn't that the bearings were used when it was built and it had 2 of the spider gears had broken teeth, it wouldn't of been rebuilt.

The gear lube was not a real problem because it only did it for a short time when fresh lube was filled.
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[mark tucker]

Availbility&affordability is the key to keeping a good few of trans shops building&maintaning these 5 speeds. When they become or if they were shelf stock the afordabiltiy would would be better,and that puts more on the street&track.And more guys to work working on them&building them.With that brings on evielution of the parts to make them better & up dated. Just like the china cranks&rods when checked out &assembled correctly there pretty good.I wouldnt have an issue with china made trans of good quality, But would much rather have an american trans,with american shops making the parts in my german car,hmm I think it's german, who knows??hmm come to think of it was mr porsche german??? Are these cars realy german? Is a chevy made in canada or mexiaco, an american car? Click rrrrrrrrr tink oops there go's that can opener again,look out for the worms!!!

[mcmscott]

I always advise my customers not a Berg 5speed, not because it is a pos, but Berg is entirely too much of a pain to deal with

[mark tucker]

there ya go.nuff said.time to bring it to a mfr that can do, and is willing to do, and knows what to do.(and a vw guy would be nice too)