Nothing serious, nothing new, but I took the car out today and drove it hard through a few gears and a few corners. LOVE it, LOVE it!
Awesome smooth torque, huge power and a great sound. I can't talk it up enough. I know my car is not perfect and I'd change a million things about
it and probably will eventually, but not the motor and certainly not back to a VW aircooler. The only upgrade I'd make is to a louder exhaust. :P
Love it. :kiss
Soon to be joining you on the water cooled side
Heart Donor
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That looks very much like my donor car from memory...only had it here a week, stripped every possible part off it and called the wreckers to take the
shell away. My kombi is going to think it is a suby it will have so many of its bits...oh yeah...love the way the tach flicks around to 6000rpm
Don't you just love insurance write offs
welcome to the dark (wet) side. :vader
Gotta say, Pete. I love mine too :bounce just got a coupla issues to sort.
Hopefully taking it on a 250 mile drive on Friday (first long drive since being watercooled) and get a bit of surfing in - Croyde Bay - North Devon,
England.
love my subaru powered rides
out back 3ltr
liberty turbo
Mistres trike
bug
18 others on there way
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I love my aircooled engine. Lumpy at idle, it rewards an enthusiastic prod at idle with a rowdy 'blat-bebump-bedump' as each of its 1916 cubes
gurgles its morning juice through dual 40mm chokes. As I gradually wake it up completely and its pulse gets quicker, I begin poking into its
mid-range, the snare of its exhaust richocheting back from the sandstone through my just-down-a-little-bit passenger window as I wind it out further
and further in each gear. With warm tyres, I'm 'up it for the rent', brake dancing and heel-toeing as I find motorbikes to play with in my
favourite playground.
It's so much more rewarding than the brand-new, cloned, sterile, late-model stuff I drive the other days of the week...
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you left out glen>>>>>>
& I lean forward on every hill , it helps
I sold my RS turbo
I love a motor that...
has real fuel economy,
doesn't need it's carbs balances,
doesn't need it's rockers adjusted, hell it doesn't even have rockers,
doesn't have a dizzy or points,
has more than one camshaft,
tunes itself,
was designed after 1920,
runs properly on unleaded fuel,
kick the first time you turn it over, every time.
Doesn't need to anything done to it to produce 150hp standard. 
Love a subaru. 
I love a motor....................that will still run after they drop the BOMB
I swear, you and your brother need help. :o
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he is talikng about a postie bike WES 
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oh I get it, he's been racing harleys :alien
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posted by pete wood I love a motor that... has real fuel economy, doesn't need it's carbs balances, doesn't need it's rockers adjusted, hell it doesn't even have rockers, doesn't have a dizzy or points, has more than one camshaft, tunes itself, was designed after 1920, runs properly on unleaded fuel, kick the first time you turn it over, every time. Doesn't need to anything done to it to produce 150hp standard. Love a subaru. |
low blow
ouch that was nasty Mr Cool.
:P
that wasn't a subaru problem.............................that was an act of GOD.
Try a real engine a get a quad cam V8!!
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love the aircooled poem glenn "the right engine struggle could go for hours " i recon drive a car/bus with the motor that was in it then work it to
your own delights and suffer its original character and enjoy it or buy another car .
P.S im not that single minded i did go for a spin in a beetle
with a suby in it great fun until the 2nd gear smashed and we crawled back in 3rd
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yeah but Wes your 1916 had about 70hp less than mine, so maybe you should stop comparing all 1916's to yours
I prefer my Cummins V8 :P
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Damn that climate control gets me every time :P
Maybe that's why I drive a new car :kiss and leave the toys for the weekend !
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Glen and craig, thank you for your U2Us apologies accepted.
But let's take minute to reflect, every time any one mentions the word "air-cooled" in connection with the word "subaru" it becomes a watercooled
vs 1916 crap fight and someone ends up upset while others rain poo on each other. Then the mods come in and have to clean it up.
let suby people talk about subys.
let 1916 people talk about 1916s.
Don't start fights. Ok. That's why people stop loggin on. OK my rant is over now lets kiss and make up... and that means everyone.
:o