I have a freshly rebuilt A4ld transmission and I was wondering what v6 motors can be made to fit it relatively easily. And what it would take to make them fit.
I am not intrested in trading up to a v8, and have no intrest in turbo 4 bangers.

Don't really know of anyone that has experimented with doing different v6 swaps. You said your not interested in v8's but the explorer 302 5.0 gets approx 18-20 mpg I believe and it has the more torque and HP and if you would change the transfer case to I think it's a 4406 you could have it being a 4X4 instead of AWD which would lead to a little bit more gas mileage since all wheels wouldn't have to spin at the same time.

really that is interesting... i haven't heard that before.

Guess I never did really answer your question lol, sorry, but a 2.3/3.0/4.0 all should bolt up to that transmission.