"Beetling" magazine article

November 1974

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Five Speed Boxes in Beetles

We have received more than a few enquiries about fitting five speed boxes into Beetles. We would remind reader that the very successful Porsche Austria 1302S rally cars were fitted with Porsche five-speed transmissions ans Jacques Mertens in Belgium has now sent us a copy of the official FIA/CSI Homologation papers for this modification.

The actual transmission used was from the 914/4, part no. 914.300.012.13 (this is a Porsche part number). In order to suit it to the VW, the following special parts were used:

The gear ratios were as follows: