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Originally Posted by Bruce2
Only "some"? What other gearbox do you think early 911s had?
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Sport-o-matic.
Anyway Oaisis, I have an early 914/901 in my Superbeetle and it works fantastic. The ratios were already correct for the Type IV, and the only mods necessary were replacing the front housing, and shiftrod with 911/901 peices, and flipping the diff. Bug@5speed makes the front housings now, so you don't have to beat the bushes for a hard-to-find 911/901 piece. I thought that making those changes were much easier, and less expensive than changing gear ratios in a 911/901 to work best with a four cylinder engine. Using either 901 is cheaper than a Berg 5 speed.
You'll need to find a 914/901 gearbox with a 'tailshifter' configuration. They were used in the earlier 914 cars.
The limited slip will be ungodly expensive any way you do it in a 901, unless you luck up, and find a gearbox that already has one that the race car guys haven't found yet.