New diesel

[Russ59]

It should be here by the end of this year, that's what the dealer in Adelaide said.

Will be interesting to see what sort of sales the diesels will bring for Subaru. They do have a nice sporty look about them though. Maybe if they sell really well VW might consider bringing the Golf GTD to OZ sooner rather than later

[Transporter]

Will be interesting to see what sort of sales the diesels will bring for Subaru. They do have a nice sporty look about them though. Maybe if they sell really well VW might consider bringing the Golf GTD to OZ sooner rather than later

Yeah, it would be nice if they bring the 4motion version as well.
The thing to go for in the Forester is the longitudinal drive train system as is in Q5.

Here is another option to Forester:
You will like that one
http://www.mediafire.com/file/nndmzf...I_Q5_Eng_Trans[1].pdf

[Russ59]

Yeah, it would be nice if they bring the 4motion version as well.
The thing to go for in the Forester is the longitudinal drive train system as is in Q5.

Here is another option to Forester:
You will like that one
http://www.mediafire.com/file/nndmzf...I_Q5_Eng_Trans[1].pdf

Would be nice, but an Audi is a bit out of my price range atm I'm afraid. Maybe if I win Lotto, but that's highly unlikely I would think

[Buller_Scott]

thanks guys for the info- LOTS to learn about cars for me.

what i dont get is, despite the fact that everyone knows that top mounts see huge temperatures, why do subaru persist with this?

im reading up on nasioc re top mounts. any other obvious reasons?

i'd take em on. it'd be interesting- we'd have same power, but i'd have less weight. and the advantage of my car being a cutesy girl's car.

[Greg Roles]

Subie flat four is a very very wide motor. Think of a BMW motorcycle.

Leaves little room around the sides like a normal engine, and a whole lot of top room. Guess the figured they'd use the space, and by keeping it close they run short pipes, giving quicker response, when it's cool anyhow!

How's that for a guess??

[Transporter]

Subie flat four is a very very wide motor. Think of a BMW motorcycle.

Leaves little room around the sides like a normal engine, and a whole lot of top room. Guess the figured they'd use the space, and by keeping it close they run short pipes, giving quicker response, when it's cool anyhow!

How's that for a guess??

It is also a very very short motor, so there is a lot of room for FMI and it would be also cheaper to use air2air intercooler, don't you think?

If, manufacturer (Subaru - Fuji Heavy Industry) use more expensive solution (intercooler) they have the reason for it.

Subaru designed that diesel engine for long enough time and I'm sure they did it right.

We’re still talking about production car used for driving on the public roads, aren’t we?

So, you read the magazine and based on the information in it you’re saying that - the air2air FMI would be better and Subaru made a mistake by selecting top mounted intercooler. You even didn’t road test that car yet.

Remember when you read technical articles from the Internet or the magazines, you're obtaining the knowledge from the author of the article which is very often journalist who interviewed the technician (in the best case) and than wrote article about the interview.

The technicians learn from the textbooks and from the experience. Even textbooks sometimes have a mistake in them and they get revised and corrected.

I’m not going to argue with you what is better for your or somebody's car on The Sunday Track Day but even WRX use top mounted water cooled intercooler.

And some other cars use air2air IC.

[Transporter]

Some technical details of that Subaru's first boxer diesel engine.

http://www.mediafire.com/file/wwmbymhydmo/Subaru Diesel Engine.pdf