im totally baffled and cant find what or where its came from its in my 91 16v and the code on the bottom of the bellhousing is 6W20084 i've checked on here, VW boxes and it dont exist as a VW box any other makes of cars that ran the same gearboxes? Cheers, Craig 91 16v Edited by: Gambit
Sure there's not anymore codes on it? Mine's a DFQ out of a mk3 8v/Seat Ibiza GTI 16v size input shaft and output flanges.
cant see anything else stamped on it at all is there anywhere else apart from the usual place that it would be stamped
on the little cover plate on the 5th gear end has it got a big VW or does it have a shallow cone shaped pressing there instead? (the bit that is green for the first 5 years of its life then rusts)
it just occurred to me that the maestros I've had didnt have VW on the end caps just the cone shape, might explain a bit more of the puzzle... (might not though )
well thanx to the maestro & montego forum, it turns out that i have a 1600 5 speed maestro non-mg gearbox in my 16v its ratios are 1st 3.45 2nd 1.94 3rd 1.29 4th 0.91 5th 0.71 Final Drive 3.94:1 so comparing this against a std 16v (or 8v) box, am i losing out in much? all these ratio's dont make much sense to me!! Cheers, Craig
Actually, you might not - just looked at the final drive figure. If I could be arsed to work it out I would, but as there's a calculator on the link you posted, I won't bother....
1st & 2nd seem quite similar then from 3rd,4th onwards the 16v faster dunno if im reading it right or not, only thing is the box aint close ratio so i need to ring the neck out of it in each gear i presume one of the previous owners of my car must have knew something about them to pick that gearbox for it Edited by: Gambit
