Everything You Need to AWD Swap Your Car!

[@Deutscheautoparts]

Check out the MK5 RWD Series! kzbin.info/aero/PLtqrNCuhkOk6x7Em00qKHI6xkYHoYJWyw

[@ronevergrow8319]

Can I Awd a 2007 Fwd v8 SS Monte Carlo, that would be a beast ( twin turbo ) ....

[@neamanja]

I have b6 passat 2.0TFSI and they came only in fwd and i am interested if i bought donor car 2.0 FSI without turbo that came with AWD could it be easier to swap that way and i didnt get the electronic integration how would haldex work through the original ecu or would i need also aftermarket haldex controler

[@thefallen924]

the only time this would make sense is if there is strong sentimental attachment to a car while also wanting to test your patience and mechanical ability.

[@fila1445]

I got my skoda octavia from my parents and we have this car since it was new 14 years ago. Since it is on golf platform im thinking to swap 4x4 drivetrain as well as 1.8 tsi engine. I think i just need todaled donor car :p

[@TheCarpenterUnion]

Or if you're trying to make a car that never had an awd option

[@v6tex]

@@TheCarpenterUnion Octavia, Fabia, Leon, Ibiza, any non-R32 Golf 5, etc.

[@DonryuRaiden]

@@fila1445 I had the same idea, making my 1U2 into a 4x4, but the cost for doing this are way beyond. And the german TÜV also says no, if you don't have it done by a certified pro. The end of the story, I try to find a decent 1U2 4x4 not worn or too expensive. Good look to you and your project!

[@roboteen]

@@TheCarpenterUnion base mini r56..... I'm tryna decide on an awd or rwd swap, really depends on if I want to keep it lifted for offroad or If I want to make it a drift mobile

[@rolandm9750]

"Should you AWD swap your car? ... The answer is NO! Absolutely not.." 🤣 At least you got that out there right at the start--comedy & truth is why you gotta love this channel :)

[@brynx24]

why not awd swap?

[@rolandm9750]

@@brynx24 it's a joke--too much money and lots of AWD cars out there you could buy instead. But, if you wanna do it, go for it!

[@brynx24]

@@rolandm9750 Sorry I’m only 16 lol but I’d definitely awd a car I own

[@cristianandrei5462]

It makes sense in only one context, you want to do it to a classic car. I don't know how it's called in America, and there isn't such a big scene doing it there, but where I live is very popular to take a old 70-80 car as a project and retrofit it with all kinds of stuff like abs, traction control, awd, power steering, Ecu... etc. You like don't have the option to just buy a awd similar model if doing this kind of costum project, it just doesn't exist.

[@samgraham4168]

Thankfully it's a lot cheaper over here in the UK as we see many more lower spec cars with Quattro on the mk5 platform; can also confirm that the drivers side (passenger for us!) front driveshaft is the same on 4x4 and FWD (I've done this swap before)

[@rajr249]

hi mate was wondering how you wired the abs and haldex in as im thinking of doing this build, was hoping paul explained in the vid

[@samgraham4168]

@@rajr249 ABS stays the same, but adaptation in central convenience tells the rest of the car that Haldex controller is present. There's a fair bit of wiring involved too, as there's no connector present on the loom for the controller; we ended up running new wiring (stripped from another donor) - that was the least pleasant part of the job and isn't for people that are faint of heart. Sit down with a wiring diagram and the 6 or so wires yourself. If I did it again. Also, fuel gauge doesn't work properly until you recode car as 4x4...

[@samgraham4168]

@@rajr249 oh, ABS pump only needs to be changed to get rid of perma-code, and don't forget the ESP sensor too, that's different.

[@rajr249]

@@samgraham4168 got the Awd prop and gearbox done up, found 2 wires to abs pump 3 wires to back or instrument cluster, 1 earth, 1 to control module under steering column, dont know where the last one goes and which is the + wire for it. Didnt check before I broke the car. You wouldn't happen to know ? Also going to change esp sensor under drivers seat! Any help appreciated!

[@FaithLyo]

where can i get a mk6r/mk7r 6 speed manual and diff axles if possible? any fb groups or sites?

[@SeanPageDrummer]

I own the Mr. G Beetle. Mark 6. Awesome video. I now have an even better understanding of all the work that went into making him work right! So lucky I found him at bring a trailer! There is a learning curve to one of these cars . Haldex alone can do so many things. Am I having an anxiety attack? Lol😂

[@IeuroI]

you're a saint among men my friend. thank you for posting this

[@veleap4518]

Dude is a comedian and brutally honest, subscribed and like stat

[@dillzilla4454]

I probably got one of the rare situations where AWD swapping a car is not only useful but necessary for it to function the way i need it to. I have a EV converted dodge charger and im planning on adding a front wheel drivetrain to make it into a ridiculously powerful hybrid.

[@earthclad6833]

Hows thay going for you?

[@ChaseBlackburnthericer]

If your not in a hurry you can piece a swap together for a decent price. It will take a lot of time and searching tho. I got a complete tiguan rear end for $150, a low mile tiguan rear diff for $150, TT bevel box for $150, CC AWD gas tank for $50.

[@wolfmooo6501]

My MK6 for example, I can source parts. Is installation fairly straight forward from your point of view?

[@SuperChicken13]

Great video, thought the RWD series was hilarious. Spent about a week being delusional thinking about converting my B6 6MT 2.0T Passat Wagon to haldex because VR AWD's are hard to find in Canada, but bought a clapped out VR Touareg instead. Probably the same cost / pain in the long run.

[@shona5512]

I converted a 1.8T B5 Passat to RWD using an E46 BMW 320d rear end and a Ford Sierra Type 9 Gearbox.. It required me to cut the rear floor pan and make 2 new mounts for the rear subframe but other than that it was stupidly easy and pretty cheap. The most expensive part of it all was getting a prop shaft made to length tbh.. all in, (that's the price of the Passat, including hybrid turbo, injectors and other supporting mods + all the parts for the RWD swap) it cost less than 5k for a unique 300hp RWD car. I've since sold the car but from what I've heard, it's still going strong.

[@mikef3300]

“Because technically you wouldn’t have a prop shaft. You’d have a flop shaft. “. That just killed me. Lol

[@noobalicious2000]

This comment was so funny to me cuz i read it at the exact moment that line came up in the vid hahahahaahhaahahahhaah

[@thehybridas9065]

“ just sell your car and get the awd version that cost a little more” sir, i am watching this video because i want an AWD focus ST for 15k, rather than a focus RS for 35k

[@Frencci.999]

😂😂😂

[@svengebert8690]

This is how I felt when I converted my A5 8T from 7 speed DSG to 6 speed manual. It’s a project, but makes no financial sense. Unless you can find the parts for super cheap.

[@fastinradfordable]

It makes a lot of sense. Dsg transmission is $6k and coded to the vin of The car 6speed swap is half that.

[@ethanh7988]

Well the main reason people awd swap their car is for more grip. If they have a lot of power and can’t put it down through their 2 wheels they just awd swap their car so they can grip more and be able to launch it.

[@friscobandito9270]

As I understand it the 3rd gen Haldex went into a few Volvo models, V8 and some T6 XC90s as well as the V8 S80. Fun fact, Volvo went hard on gen 2 Haldex used it in a bunch of mid 2000's models, S40, V50, S60, V70, etc. As far as I know gen2 and gen3 are mechanically identical. The controller software is different, but parts are swap-able. I know all of this because I'm AWD swapping a C30(it's a thing, you can find out about it on the internet). I will take a look at my Gen2/3 hybrid and see how similar they are to the VW stuff you shared. I'm curious to know if VW haldex controllers work on the Volvo units.

[@frayed610]

Hey man I plan on doing this as well, how’s it going for you?

[@eternalcyberpunk]

Yea me too! But with an xc90, it’d be dope to know if you got it done or not!

[@amirst110]

We need to know how to swap the old haldex 4/5 to the new haldex with drift mode. Thank you

[@carswnova]

Its guys like you I appreciate. Way to think ahead man ✊🏿😎

[@v6tex]

For the price you'd have to pay for a Golf 8R donor or just new Haldex parts it's not worth it

[@cheyennemaury1862]

Good lord thank you for this video!!in the process of doing a 4motion swap on my mk6 tdi. Slowly purchasing all the parts (tank and rear end already picked) but I need a daily first before installing 🤣

[@zacharyjohnson5569]

When I had my mk6.5 GLI I was planning on doing a is38 hybrid swap (non mqb to mqb) and I found a group of guys who had basically perfected it. A couple of them making over 500whp. Anyways I wrecked my car and got a GTI but one of the guys with the hybrid swap in his GLI has gone on to doing an AWD swap and he's just about done with it. So a mk6.5 gli making near 500whp due to being swapped to mqb AND its awd. Just though I'd share a cool project with you guys.

[@callummcgill4071]

Finally a mk5 detailed awd swap video, great work!

[@ChristopherPuff]

It is way expensive to swap to AWD in my GTI. Thanks for changing my mind. Maybe next time I’ll just buy a golf R.

[@azura3277]

4 wheel drive conversions should be done if you have the time money and patience for your project, it should(in my opinion) be done for your project, or what ever you want. Just have the money time and patience. I'm looking into it cos I have a project I'm planning, I was even thinking of using the 4wd system out of an audi or the components from a lightly wrecked one.

[@DevineDigital]

I could have used this video about 6 months ago haha EDIT: can confirm front left axle can be re-used. EDIT 2: If you should happen to have questions about doing this to a MK6 GLI, please feel free to reply, I have done this on a DSG vehicle. 95% of this is the same for the Jetta except for the cutting of the spare tire wheel well, that's not needed. EDIT 3: After watching the entire video, getting advise from my therapist and wasting way to much money on this project, in crazy goofy voice "I'll do it again".

[@fastboatster]

gli with awd must be a beast. it's probably analogous to a3 in terms of the drivetrain?

[@DevineDigital]

@@fastboatster basically when it comes to essential hardware. With mine being a EA888 gen 3 non MQB platform though it does bring about its complications. The car is essentially MQB software on a PQ35 CANBUS system. Gen 1 folks don’t have to worry about this at all though. That’s probably way more detail than anyone needs here though.

[@SqugSCX]

@@DevineDigital Is there something that I can follow to get some more info on your build? AWD is something I would like to do for my gen 3 gli, but not for a long time lol. Just interested in ur progress.

[@DevineDigital]

@@SqugSCX absolutely @devinedigital1 on Instagram I post small things here and there. Currently waiting on a workbench for my lsd install.

[@fastinradfordable]

@@SqugSCX gen 3 Gli? Mk3 never got Gli

[@tommypdcantcopsht]

If you do the oem awd floor pan you can keep the leak detection stuff as it goes back up into that same spot.

[@etienne1003]

It remind me the TDI swap that I did on a B6 Passat ;) I was sourcing parts to swap it 4 Motion! I got all I need from a 3.6 4motion Passat, But at the time sourcing a diesel 6 speed manual transmission was way too expensive... I resold the parts for a profits at least :)

[@spinnetti]

The only time this swap makes sense to me is to swap to a car that was never AWD like a beetle.. If mine was AWD, I would have kept it instead of getting an S3. For exhaust, cheapest to get one close and then just mod it. e.g. I got a GTI exhaust off ebay, then cut off the outlets and modified to work for my Beetle.

[@jeremysepeda2521]

I have a 2012 Beetle Turbo and I'm seriously considering it!

[@SeanPageDrummer]

@@spinnetti My Beetle Mr G is AWD! He needed it to get his power to the ground! It’s not a cheap thing to do, so be aware of that!

[@MustaphaArh1]

Scirocco R deserve that swap more than any Gti.

[@heikkijaakkola]

Been there done that so couldn't agree more 😁

[@gary2kr1]

Thanx for the vid. Informative and funny as hell

[@ADADIZZLE]

I like how he said AWD is pointless then I looked at R34 Skyline GTR prices lol GTT it is this Vids perfect!!!!

[@Randy-lg1qo]

Damn. I have a modified Škoda Octavia vRS and thought this might be a future option since they never came in AWD, but not after seeing this. Good info

[@d.d.n.8202]

Should you AWD your car? No, no you shouldn't. Lol that made my day.

[@AJ-cn4tm]

I drive an Audi A5 8F convertible. I associate a lot of beautiful memories with this car, and I've also revised a lot and tuned it. I prefer a manual switch ... unfortunately the A5 Cabriolet with the CNCD engine was never built as a quattro, but as an automatic version. The conversion would unfortunately be much too complex and might not work properly. Greetings from Germany

[@RacerA8]

Almost same I have a Audi A4 b5 r4 single turbo fwd but I’m not sure

[@rodolfosoto2960]

That's crazy, no kidding it's better to sell the 2wd and buy a Awd, but! it's awesome to see it done. thanks

[@DedecaPT]

Again, brilliant video, thanks a lot for all the information, I'll come back to you once i get a passat r36 for this project.

[@robertpaupard1265]

I can give at least ONE reason why I would want to awd swap my car. I can actually give you more than on reason!!

[@BIGGELATO]

My car is worth 5 grand at best and all the mods I want to do will cost tens of thousands. This becomes the same as restoring muscle cars into modern restomod beasts. The car you start of with isn’t worth shit, you dump 50-100k on it, half of that in labor, then paint, its still a depreciating liability. At the end of the day, it was your goal, your treasure, your gold, your build. You probably will evaluate it higher than what it cost you, some would even say their builds are priceless. Whats junk to some if another ones treasure. Fuck the haters, lets go AWD.

[@justinoliveira1365]

I think you guys stop playing games and just throw that S4 v6 all-wheel drive in that car great videos keep up the good work

[@bmxriderforlife1234]

2 maybe 3 awd projects planned. Miata maybe with a Honda awd set up like civics for racing use keep the hp low ish like 350. More likely just a rwd engine swap. 2 deffs at some point awd plans. 4 door gtst to gtr conversion. Either with an rb30 block with 25 or 26 heads. Or a custom rb30 rb26 and 2jz hybrid from Australia. Or potentially a newer v6 style gtr or z platform engine. Upgraded awd system based off attessa but electronic and faster scanning and more programmable. 350z awd with a gtr style awd system but using some g35 bits. Gtr transmission and transfer case. G35 bits for the front suspension and hubs. Some stock 350z suspension bits. 350z engine but built. Maybe upgrade to an r35 engine. Widebody kit and extra rubber in the rear should help a bit with the added front weight. Since race car show car daily sports car. Eventually some custom or aftermarket suspension bits to reduce weight back to stock in the front. Weigh less than a skyline same awd system but now more programmable and can turn it off at will to rwd for drifting. Interior has to partially be re done but still looks factory so aftermarket bits can be used to make some of it easy. Since aftermarket gtr awd bits for sensors and computers and aftermarket ecus and other stuff. Means some reduced weight off the system and space. And reduced space off the stock ecu and wiring. Hide a mini car computer diy in it. Ssd storage and a connection to the ecu for tuning. Add in a sim card reader and attena and bam diy car wifi. Some of the stuff for the 350 also applies to the gtr conversion. Reduces weight increases performance and actually saves money long term on the conversion and build. Improves reliability. But both projects are gonna require so much build time and work. Basically instead of paying big money for certain oem gtr bits. You can spend similar sometimes less or only a little more for huge upgrades. Aftermarket billet transfer case and the aftermarket upgraded transmissions being examples. Though the lighter car means less stress starting with something 1000whp capable on an awd gtr means its done besides bear sets on the 350z. And should require less maintenance and servicing. Daily 4 door suoer car slayer family car. Lighter smaller more sporty looking 2 seater coupe super car slayer. Both at probably 800 to 1000whp for like 50k each or less depending. Skyline cost a bit more since I want it done right and might use some r35 bits. Can find a good clean manual 350z in buildable condition for 5k or less. Even expensive option with the 16-18k sequential or dct transmissions. Say 23k, billet transfer case I think was 3k. If I remember correctly the other attesa bits was like 2k for the upgraded one. The g35 bits not that expensive I'd say probably 5k at most. Body work 2 days so figure a couple grand at worst. Ecu couple grand for fancy one. All out engine and turbo. Like 10k on engine work 7k turbo set up Diy you could probably into it on all brand new bits for like 50k and be pumping pretty high horse power awd. Potentially less. One of the cheaper transmissions options. See about a stock transfer case from Nissan maybe a nismo upgraded one is available for less. But then you also have a bunch of spare bits to sell. And I'd you get one with the body work for a widebody already done cheap and or some turbo and engine work you might not need as much. If you can build the engine yourself and put together a cheaper turbo set up. If you can get the g35 bits cheaper than I guessed which is probably the case. Skyline starts where I live for a gtst for like 10k. Add like 30k for the engine from aussie but good for thousands of hp. Just need some turbos. Rest is very similar except a few more expensive gtr bits. And the necessary body work. But last I checked like 60 to 70k. Maybe more depending how fancy you go. Might be able to save a bit in some places. Lowest I figured the awd 350z conversion would be like 35k ish meaning potentially sub 40k. Lowest for the gtr like 55k ish. 350z more stock. Gtr still pretty custom and the closer you get to factory gtr for certain shit the more money. Especially if you want built factory gtr. Custom highly built gtr with a bunch of factory shit removed and new interior cheaper. For my gtr a little bit more given left hand drive conversion. But less than if I was trying to fully emulate the stock interior. The touch displays are dying and annoying to replace. So custom infotainment. But still inspired off the stock just modernized like a resto mod. Plus the 4 door Skyline perfect family car for the r34. Big car anyways why not take advantage of the 4 door life. Diy car computer also means easy to do diy headrest displays and other cool stuff. For the price of buying a gtr and building it to similar levels. I get something more custom. Just as fast or faster. More unique. And modernized everywhere almost. So show car race car daily car cause the gtr can be dailied when built right if you do regular maintenance which is reduced in cost my route. Plus a family car. 350z cheaper gtr that's a 2 seater and with the 350z body kits available you can make look very very sporty. Gtr kind of a sleeper. 350z a sleeper but in a completely different sense. And monsters are different to rwd monsters. Also means for the gtr I can build in a roll cage that's hidden super easy given it's a full rebuild. 350z leave alone to start. Extra strength and stiffness hidden so stock look except a few peekaboos and you can still have bolt in side bars for track days but cleaner and hidden mounts. And keeps passengers safer. Plus the 4 door body would have to be made stiffer for the doors. And the rear door front frame gives you a perfect spot to hide a side bar that runs vertical. Both side of the floor. Front pillars rear pillars frame between the front and rear doors covers roof sides floor and connects the whole chassis. Cause body work means paint. Do the bondo or body filler yourself properly. Thin down to bare metal as little as possible. Get a cheap maaco or similar paint job. Then polish and smooth out the paint yourself. Use as a cheap primer. Have nice final color coat and clear done on top but less work for the expensive painters to do. Because old gtst likely needs work you save some money going straight to conversion upgrades like lights as well. Upgraded straight to modern brighter leds. Any custom body kit stuff can also help versus getting high end stock body kit panels.

[@See7ayyeesix]

I love your exercise in hubris man 🤣

[@1PotatoeMasher1]

They never made an AWD Golf Mk6 TDI though so I can’t just sell mine and buy another. It would be very useful once I get around to putting 500+ft/lbs to the wheels.

[@alexlutz2221]

I'm just about to wrap up a haldex and 1.8t swap on my mk1 rabbit which was never designed to be AWD so I needed to install the tunnel from my donor 2008 vr6 passat and make custom subframe mounts for both the front and rear subframes. Fortunately the majority of everything was from the donor that only cost $1000 out the door.

[@clamencoclamenco7079]

Hi Alex, do you have any videos or notes on what you did? I am interested in possibly doing the same thing to my mk1, but there is not much info and literature out there for this. If you're happy to share some info and knowledge i would appreciate it. we can chat on mail if that is easier.

[@alexlutz2221]

@@clamencoclamenco7079 actually haven't gotten a chance to finish it yet and it's been sitting with all the fabrication pretty much done just needing the engine and transmission reinstalled, wiring harness hooked up and a little bit of plumbing done but I haven't had the time to work on it as I've had a lot of things thrown on my plate in the last year or so that had a higher priority than the rabbit. That said the first thing I would suggest is making sure you get a donor car not just the transmission, diff ECT. This way you can save yourself the headache of trying to get everything lined up perfectly. If I were to do it again I would strip the donor car down completely to the chassis. From there I would get tube steel square, round tube doesn't really matter. Whatever random stock you can get for cheap should work. Make yourself a jig that will bolt up perfectly to every subframe mounting point by bolting on mock up brackets being sure to have the bolt holes as perfectly lined up as possible and welding braces between all the mock up brackets on both the front and rear subframes and between the two and up to the strut mounting points. I would also suggest doing this for any other brackets that you intend on transferring to the final car. Make sure your jig is rigid and lines up perfectly and is level to the floor at a normal ride height so everything is at a consistent height from the ground as it was on the donor and that you have alignment reference points for the center of the car and a front to back alignment point prior to cutting into the donor at all. Once you have your jig at a point where you are happy it you can remove the jig then cut the mounting points off the donor. You can then support the chassis of the final car in such a way that it will drop over the jig with all the brackets you cut off the donor attached to it. if the wheelbase needs to be adjusted you can very carefully remove the exact same amount from both sides of your jig and reweld it together to reduce the wheelbase or cut and add material to increase the wheelbase.once the wheelbase looks good Lower the final car and cut parts off until it's sitting in a position that you are happy with. Then weld supports to hold all the brackets in place to the point where everything is rigidly held on to the final car but not necessarily complete. From there you can remove the jig and turn the car on it's side using a rotisserie made from scrap or a purchased one if you're feeling fancy or if you have a lift raise the car up to a comfortable work height. From those positions it becomes easy to start to patch in sheet metal to make the unibody whole again. Once everything is patched up you might want to verify with the jig that everything is in the right spot. If you are happy with it the body is ready to have the welds ground down and then painted or bedlinered or however you want to finish the undercarriage of the car to protect it. From here everything except for maybe the driveshaft should bolt right up as if it was stock. I did not do it this way as I did it all with measurements and it took 10 times longer than it should have and I had to redo it once to fix the alignment of the rear end. As for donor AWD selection I would suggest making sure the AWD transmission is compatible with the engine you want to use. For vws most 4cylinder engines share the same bolt pattern if I'm not mistaken and all vr6 engines share the bolt patterns. I think the 5cylinder is the same as the vr6 but don't quote me on that. For mine all I could find for cheap near me was a automatic 3.6l vr6 4motion Passat but I wanted the 1.8t engine for the lower overall weight and better weight distribution due to the mounting location and affordability, availability of Both replacement parts and upgrade parts. In order to make them work together I had to make a completely custom flex plate, flex plate spacer and adapter to physically bolt the engine and transmission together. These can be done if needed especially if you have access to a machine shop but you can save yourself a lot of time and money if you can find a setup that already works together. If you need harness diagrams you can buy them from erwin.vw or erwin.audi respectively depending on the donor you get and other parts you plan on using that are from other cars. This will also help you with any electrical you need to do that's aftermarket for instance a racing fuel cell, aftermarket fuel pump ECT to ensure everything is hooked up properly and sends the required information where it needs to go. If you have any questions feel free to ask.

[@Gazonka]

I would assume this would also work for a beetle?

[@thetrackside]

Funny I just watched the RWD series yesterday, would love to make a Mk7 tdi sport wagon AWD

[@greglkin4159]

I’ve been wondering the same since I got my Mk7 GSW TDI.

[@CBD-LIFE]

I think in the respect of my choice of building a VW Beetle RSI Replica. YES! YES, I Certainly must do this.😂 Its cheaper than buying a Beetle RSI😢 I only need a 3.2 Audi TT as a donor car.

[@ThaKillahB]

i remember a past video where you went over why its a terrible idea to 4mo swap a mk7 and made it sound like a long strenuous task. LOL

[@Deutscheautoparts]

Sounds like nothing has changed

[@360quickshot]

Yeah, I shouldn't do it. But what if I want a manual 4 motion TDI?

[@MADADAM987654321]

Watching this cos I’m thinking of swapping my st to awd as it’s just a track car anyway and best way to improve lap times is awd it fwd ain’t cutting it now 🤣

[@jamesmcfaddin1789]

#shopdap #daprepair Hey guys! I love your channel AND I’ve been a VW driver for over 25 years (I’m 37). Currently we have a 2013 Tdi Sportwagen...and we live in the mountains in Canada. This is one of my favourite Dubs to date, with the only drawback being it’s FWD. If I wanted an AWD TDI Sportwagen would I be better off swapping a TDI engine into a existing AWD wagon, or convert mine to AWD? I have all tools and equipment needed to do either job, but haven’t done such a huge mod before...I would love the advice! Why am I stuck on the Sportwagen? Well...after having a Tiguan and Touareg, the wagon has more cargo room...which is killer since we do loads of road trips...so yeah. Keep up the good work! Thanks!!!

[@tvr3937]

TDI into awd

[@Balomis]

An engine swap is much simpler than a drivetrain swap! I put a PD130 engine in my Canadian-market B6 A4 Avant, and I've gotta say having AWD, a TDI and a 6-speed really is the dream.

[@lopezduron10]

@@Balomis I want to do the same with my 2014 sportwagen I love that thing...

[@vanishingpoint808]

We need to know how long the RWD GTI held up

[@glock1inthetop45]

Wym u seen the video

[@ixsamoon]

planning to buy a fwd mirage asti as my first project car, my first mod is going to make it awd so i can replace the brakes

[@ChatGBTChats]

No idea why im watching this at 1:30am but its fun to fantasize about taking some of the awd parts from the bmw x drive and get it to work on my A90 supra since its already got the b58 might as well full send

[@NibanoTransmontano]

Swaping a car to awd is a useles thing that's awesome to do

[@SeanPageDrummer]

@@NibanoTransmontano it’s not useless once it’s done. I can get my power to the ground now.

[@ikbelmezroua5500]

I am 70% with u but there is no awd option for most of cars like renault megane ( i talk about the 2012 mk3) this car if it's awd will be a beast

[@brucewillis3071]

I'm planning on doing an inline 6 with awd swap into my focus.

[@rkan2]

ShopDAP: Like 4chan found a

[@backroadbeetle4781]

I have a 2012 VW Beetle TDI Cabrio with a manual. It's lifted on 27" tires. I'd like awd to go down deep sand and slippery snow. I can't buy a cabrio that gets 54mpgs and can tow my camper trailer haha. Seems like a good idea, sorta sketched though.

[@mkfourgli1]

Hey Pauly D what mk is that bevel box coming from? Thanks guy. Great material as always

[@japanscavenger232]

a big thanks for this video!!

[@orl484]

Wonder how difficult this would be on a MK7 GLI

[@Super73VW]

What if you want to make a US version of an Audi RS3 8P? It would require transplanting all of a TTRS or RS3 8V powertrain, so in that case in would just be a few body mods to fit in addition to everything else if starting with a FWD car.

[@-a6833]

Unfortunately, Ccirocco doesn't come in AWD, because VW was afraid of it eating Audi marketshare, so those smoothbrains decided to make a sports hothatch FWD only....

[@ChimRichalds750]

Awesome video, very informative. I’ve got a bit of a pipe dream project car I’d like to hear your opinions on. Now hear me out… I’ve got a 1970s station wagon I’ve always wanted to engine swap, and over the years the idea has evolved into an AWD + engine swap. My thinking is just get an AWD donor car that’s already equipped with everything I need and do a body swap. Yes a body swap is a costly and timely undertaking on its own, but seems like the better option. I wanna hear your thoughts!

[@christianhudspeth3338]

I want to do this on my car but only because the volvo c30 does not come with AWD as an option but because it shares a platform with other volvo models that also have AWD equipped as an option makes an awd swap is supposedly a bolt on project with some modification to the wiring harness. Theres not many guide videos on that though just videos of people with the end result already done

[@normanmortensen2591]

Just knowing that it is possible, is very often good enough. How about doing a Audi b5 V8 swap?

[@RacerA8]

Not cool the engines in a b5 are nice

[@mikesvirtualgarage9917]

This hits home for when people ask about converting old fwd Audi's to quattro. Just.dont.do.it.

[@tommypdcantcopsht]

Those cars aren’t plug and play to swap parts like the new ones. The body structure in the rear is completely different

[@dattajack]

I wish it was easier so all these hot hatches can turn into better rally cars. Luckily the Toyota Yaris is AWD but the price won't come down for about five years

[@YBM2007]

Any use or knowledge from the Skoda Octavia WRC project? always thought this would be interesting for the US VW fans

[@danielchai9795]

i like your video and explanation. Is there any chance you can make a video to convert cx5 FWD to AWD?

[@ill54372]

i was thinking of doing this to my tiguan is a 6 speed manual. but like you said it gets very expensive.

[@isaiah1660]

I want an AWD E30 but they’re really rare so I was thinking just doing it. I only found 1 325IX and it was unlisted months ago.

[@christophercarson3143]

I'm really wanting to do a similar thing but can't find anyone that's done my car before. It's a astra H vxr so don't really have many options to take parts from. Oh and it's running a saab b204 engine and a vauxhall combo diesel gearbox 😂

[@phuhoang4678]

Lol great video you helped me decide not to do awd

[@MultiSanderrr]

Would you recommend doing this on a mk3 Scirocco, or something else wich never came with 4wd from the factory?

[@tvr3937]

highly recommended.

[@JurisKankalis]

It says YOUR CAR, not YOUR VW. Anyway. Love the channel and have a 2004 Mitubishi Lancer wagon rusting away, for which an old dream of mine has been to install a 2,0TDI from a VW (Mitsus had 2,0 VW diesel engines in some cars, like the Grandis mini van) and make it AWD by using the bits from the same generation Outlander. Should all be easy, right? I mean, they had AWD in all gens of EVOS, and in Japan they even had wagon 8th gen EVOS. Anyway. If anyone has any insight, would be much appreciated. Well done for the RWD Golf GTI.

[@XboxAxisII]

Unless your car never had the awd option, I got an 07 eclipse, using evo x transfer case and axle

[@shorty2000ish]

Would you happen to have a full parts list to do it?

[@johnniesohn2272]

Hypothetically lol... nissan juke. The awd is automatic and the fwd is 6spd manual. Would it be easier to get the awd and covert to manual than to convert the manual to awd? Sorry but I really enjoy the thought of a manual 6spd juke. Thank you love the content

[@RemotelyHuman666]

I have a 2014 Beetle TDi with the DSG transmission. I am currently mapping out a plan to lift it and turn it into an off roader. Are there any caveats you can think of to doing this conversion on my vehicle? Unfortunately the vast majority of information out there applies to the older "new beetles" and not to the 12-19 redesign.

[@intensedabberoniJG]

I own a 2016 DSG beetle as well, not the diesel though, and i also happen to be planning your exact lift+awd swap in order to daily it in northern canada. Besides the huge caveat of time and cost? I think the main issue with awd swapping the a5 beetle is the wiring. There are pretty much no amateurs attempting this swap at all due to how difficult it would be to wire the haldex unit to behave like stock, and I dont think its appealing to very many people to leave everything up to a phone and standalone haldex controller. HPA motorsports have done two of these a5 awd swaps to my knowledge and they say that it takes an equivalent amount of time mechanically assembling the haldex, driveshaft, axles, etc. as it does to actually wire up the car. Something like 100 hours of building and then 100 extra man hours of straight wiring. Allegedly it is possible, though, to mount the rear haldex system into our car without doing much other than cutting out the spare tire well and installing brackets for the driveshaft. Everything from a mk5/6 golf r32 or audi tt mk2 should just bolt on to the a5 beetle with no problems but keep in mind I have not attempted this swap myself, just researched as much as i can about it. They all came off the same production line so my fingers are crossed I can just pick up a donor r32 for cheap and just frankenstein it all on. Probably also going to manual swap it as well using the donor car. Also I hear it's better to have the dune trim because the wiring harness is more accomodating.

[@frayed610]

Thoughts on buying a wrecked ford focus rs and swapping the drive train into a Volvo c30 t5?

[@karcynfountain141]

Imagine a awd mk5 rabbit with a 2.5 tsfi under the hood instead

[@alexcoman1544]

So I was doubting on the idea to do it on my mk2 octavia vrs and managed to get my hands on 8p quattro whit all the bits

[@alexcoman1544]

And it was only £300

[@zacharyingram8686]

Looking to convert a 2010 Dodge challenger se to AWD, interested to hear your Ideas!

[@WahlVids]

I have a dumb question: How much harder would it be to just fit another engine in the trunk and sync everything up?

[@edjones4188]

the balance of a front wheel driven/rear engine car would make it very rear heavy without benefiting much. for a front wheel driver, i imagine it might throw a lot of oversteer in it

[@louisbabycos106]

Love to engine swap an LS4 FWD small block into a Suzuki SX4 AWD .

[@titan_3634]

lol, I guess he definitely wouldn't want to do what Im doing, which is building a 4 wheel drive out of a former front wheel drive. So basically, I'm re-engineering the drive train, and since the engine is going to be rotated 90 degrees instead of traverse mount , the steering system must be relocated, currently the rack is mounted between engine and firewall.

[@sharptoothtrex4486]

There is nothing wrong with creating an AWD 1990 Chevy Caprice is that AWD is great for all weather conditions.

[@fastinradfordable]

Just buy an amc eagle

[@sharptoothtrex4486]

@@fastinradfordable I hate AMC Eagles!

[@anthonyvanderweyden4553]

thank you fore the advise

[@JoeHarpen]

Transmission question. I have a manual trans Golf Alltrack (obv already 4motion) and I just want to change the gearing. Could I put the right diff inside an mk5/6 gti trans and pull off it's passenger axle flange and that's it? Use the Alltrack bevel box, etc. Or, Could I drop all the gti gearing into my Alltrack trans housing?

[@ItsNiteNite]

I’m more curious about making a car awd that doesn’t have an awd model. This seems more like taking a fwd model and just getting the parts of the same car that came as the awd version

[@user-gk2cg2th9h]

I would love to do this with a kia cadenza and a stinger awd platform

[@ithinkilikecars]

I think there could be a reason to go AWD. Think of a car like scirocco, ofcos i can get s3 or golf R but they are not special like scirocco. Imagine pulling up with scirocco 4 motion at a drag race😎

[@chayanesanabria5104]

@Deutscheautoparts where did yall get the taillights for this car???

[@syndoxxx1665]

I live in canada, I'm trying to ls swap my car and make 800whp hopefully, should I consider doing an AWD if I want to daily the car and be more safe during the Winter?

[@8163-i5n]

Lol great video🤣 I just brought a 3.2 tt awd today from a tow company for a whopping $800 and he asked for $600 I told him 800 because it runs and drives not crashed looks great just no title, I’m putting this in a rabbit gti dsg twin turbo nitrous, I just sending it I’m sure I’m going to blow this up 💯% guarantee💪🏿 😁 wish me luck 😂

[@JasperSkallow]

I want to do this to my Kia Cerato Koup TD :)

[@mikepalmer1770]

Is there any difference in the Audi A3 Quattro’s and the all wheel drive system on the volts wagon’s I actually was looking into doing this but like you said cheaper to just buy one already on there and swap all my parts

[@DaytonasGarden]

What about improving your AWD system

[@sgt.grambo7364]

You say I shouldn't AWD swap my car? What if I already swapped my Chevy SSR's 5.3L with a 7L LS7 and I want as much trackion on the drag strip as possible?

[@stonewp]

How about moving the front suspension/engine trans from a 2wd GTi and mid mounting it in a TT for rwd?

[@dannoyes4493]

OK, what about swapping an automatic car, such as the Arteon, to a 6-sp manual????

[@Atrociousa3]

Did this because Audi didn’t sell the 2.0t with manual and awd.