Thread: Time to Upgrade

A good tune will see a turbo sube put out massive torque. I know someone who has an sti wrx with a dynod 750nm at the wheels - yet it remains very drivable*.

*until some driveline component explodes or his Licence is taken away, whichever occurs first !

Originally Posted by Epic pooh

A good tune will see a turbo sube put out massive torque. I know someone who has an sti wrx with a dynod 750nm at the wheels - yet it remains very drivable*.

*until some driveline component explodes or his Licence is taken away, whichever occurs first !

A good 'tune' .... with no actual modifications? Wow, now that is impressive.

Yes, it's always good fun until your drivetrain is sitting on the road next to you ... LOL!!!

In the case of a tuned manual trans Sube it will normally be the clutch sitting on the passenger floor

I think 750 was with a couple of mods, but nothing radical. Very tunable out of the box, Subaru are very conservative in their engineering of these motors and leave it too hoons to extract more and pay the price in broken parts or fines or both.

I have a Sube, a Disco and a 21 year old 1.3L Charade (1 owner, Koni suspension, 67kw and 750kg) and the Daihatsu is my favorite performance car - you can do whatever you like, nothing ever breaks and you are rarely flouting the law ... but I have a great time with that car ... and it is such a pleasure (NVH) to get into one of the others after a drive of the Charade hahaha !

Originally Posted by Scary

Ha ha - My subaru I drive daily has more power and torque at the wheels than the Disco has at the flywheel - certainly wasn't bought as a performance car but has plenty for around town, towing and country driving

Its all relative, yes had WRX's as well. Its just the way the D4 delivers its power against its weight range. My old man has an XF Jag with teh same engine, and it delivers its power differently than the D4.

The suby's are quick, but they do not weight 3T and deliver their power up front with max torque from memory much higher in the rev range. I would suggest the D4's max torque is delivered low down.

aside from euro performance, I have had a 540HP (atw) XR6turbo, that had over700nm of torque. mind you I sheered the diff off and went through 3 gearboxes....

Originally Posted by Celtoid

Wow, that is impressive ... more torque than a 3.0L twin turbo Disco. A quick look at the Subaru website indicates the most powerful WRX STI Premuim as being rated at 407nm (not sure where that's measured). That's about 150nm less than an off the shelf bog standard 2.l litre Merc CDI 250 sedan, which is hardly a racing car and almost 200nm less than an SE Disco.

Yours must be very heavily modified.

It has had a little bit of work - including a Cosworth built crate motor etc etc

Well with less than 400km on the clock it was past due to take the new one out for a camping trip on the WA long weekend!

Quick one to Dwellingup with 5 families.

Only did one short 4WD.

Wow this thing tows like a dream and of course handles anything thrown at it so easily.

A couple of happy snaps of the car, camper trailer and the kids watching movies at the campsite - that image is 3m wide coming from a rechargable LED pico projector that is about 40mm cube - 4m distance from screen