Whats the best way to make this car less gutless.

It does use a 1.8L version of the Boxer AFAIK. Find a crashed WRX/Legacy and transplant the engine and running gear ;)
 
ConfusedTA said:
It won't kill it ;)
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That wink scares me :p
Ill put some in it next time i drive it, unless anyone here comes on and stops me by saying it could kill someting.
 
Firestar_3x said:
Nope it will just cost you more and prolly make little diff.
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It will make a bit of difference, 91RON to 98RON. It certainly did in our hire car, which could barely climb a reasonably steep hill on 91 but managed no bother on 98. Anyway nothing more than a suggestion of something to try. If it doesnt help or hardly makes any diffrerence in that particular car, its only been one tank of slightly more expensive petrol.
 
Higher ron ratings only make a difference if the ECU can adjust the timing automatically. And then it usually requires a reset to 'learn' the higher ron.

It certainly doesn't make an instant difference.
 
DreXeL said:
It does use a 1.8L version of the Boxer AFAIK. Find a crashed WRX/Legacy and transplant the engine and running gear ;)
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It is a 1.8 boxer, ~90hp.

I'm not sure how much space there is in the engine bay, but the Impreza turbo engine is about a foot wider (hence why my dad didn't use one of those in his Anglia)
 
OMFG we used to have one of them! You have made me well happy now that I know what it is! :D

Does it have a selector down by the handbrake so you can choose between 2wd and 4wd? :)
 
Cryfreeman said:
they do a 1.8 turbo version of the same age, around 130bhp :)

maybe find one of them to shove in :p
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The XT coupe has one of those is in it.

Im surprised there is someone on here who even knew that there were subarus built before 1994.
;)
 
atpbx said:
Im surprised there is someone on here who even knew that there were subarus built before 1994.
;)
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Subaru 360 4tw ;)

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Higher octane petrol cant do any harm, at worst it will do nothing more then the lower grade.


One of the strokes is the compression stroke, where the engine compresses a cylinder-full of air and gas into a much smaller volume before igniting it with a spark plug. The amount of compression is called the compression ratio of the engine. A typical engine might have a compression ratio of 8-to-1. (See How Car Engines Work for details.)

The octane rating of gasoline tells you how much the fuel can be compressed before it spontaneously ignites. When gas ignites by compression rather than because of the spark from the spark plug, it causes knocking in the engine. Knocking can damage an engine, so it is not something you want to have happening. Lower-octane gas (like "regular" 87-octane gasoline) can handle the least amount of compression before igniting.
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http://auto.howstuffworks.com/gasoline3.htm

Higher octane allows greater compression and so more power, not all cars can change this on the fly though but with a subaru who knows..
 
geiger said:
Higher octane allows greater compression and so more power, not all cars can change this on the fly though but with a subaru who knows..
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But it's not automatic power. RON is just a rating of detonation (knock) resistance, that's all. Therefore the higher the RON, the more advance you can run before knock occurs. More advance = more power.

No engine can increase compression ratio on-the-fly, the only way to take advantage of higher octane is by running more ignition timing advance.
 
William said:
OMFG we used to have one of them! You have made me well happy now that I know what it is! :D

Does it have a selector down by the handbrake so you can choose between 2wd and 4wd? :)
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Yep those are the ones :D
Its a FWD car but you have a selecter to choose from 4WD hi and lo :D
 
Yea I remember that Saab, I thought it was a great idea :) Never really heard much about it after that though :(

I just meant greater compression by allowing for a later spark
 
Apparently compression is made variable on the Toyota Prius as well by late closing of the inlet valve
 
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