Hi all, new team with limited funds and experience here, we have a torsen university special(center diff from the audi quattro) and we are looking into ways to connect the output splines to cv joints, we are essentially price restricted to junkyard finds, so the only option i know of is using the actual rear output shaft from the quattro center differential,i have been able to find pictures of this and have a rough guess that it is approximately 7 inches long, this is enough to get us from the center of the diff to the outside of our diff case, however i ma really just guessing that is how long it is based on its relative length compared to the differential in the picture, does anyone who has pulled one of these have measurements? I have also read that in some later years the quattro system used a torsen in tr rear axle as well, does anyone know if those splines are the same as the splines in the 12000? or for that matter if there are any other production cars(s2000, miata, brz, supra, ect) that use a torsen with the same output splines in the rear that have cvs already attached to the output shafts? also, if there are no cars that have those output splines in the rear has anyone found a car with a reasonably light bolt up cv housing that could be modified to bolt onto the center differential output shaft? my thought was that if we couldn't find cvs that have the same spline or a bolt up housing we would take the cvs off a civic or some other similarly light car and key the shafts and use a through bolt to attach them(drilling a hole in the center differential output shafts). any input from teams who have modified cvs from existing cars would be greatly apprecuated, or any other thoughts at all for that matter
Thanks
John

ps please dont give me the "google it" line or the "teams these days dont do any research they're so lazy" the have a team of three people, and a budget of "whatever is in johns pocket", along with a college that was super excited to have us build a car but would only give us the money to have the frame tubes cut, and wouldn't give us a place to work, and then after they found out where we were working(at a local welding school that offered us space) kicked us out because of insurance reasons, eg they were really excited to have us build a car but we couldn't actually build it(yes im not joking that is actually how it happened no bullshit)