FQ400 lovers eat your heart out

[GTScoob]

Porsche themselves do not waste their time with Subaru nonsense.......
Yeah, VW gave the old Bug flat 4 engine design blueprints to Subaru back in the 70's, but as far as anything German on a Subaru........uh........NO.

Thats why there is the Blitzen Legacy as well as the WRX Type Euro (Porsche modified bugeye WRX wagon).

Alois Ruf has enough serious business with 911s and their owners, and for them to fall back 20 steps and start modifying Subarus must mean that Subaru is desperate for some know-how, seeing that they needed a 2.5 to compete with Mitsubishi's 2.0 liter.

SOA put a 2.5 in the car since Americans are fat and want torquier motors. Other things also changed for the US market were seats and spring rates (much softer).

The Porsche "big reds" have been excellent brake upgrades for a lot of German cars over the years; it was first done on various VWs and Audis and Mercedes.
Now, simple brackets made it possible to install them on Subarus. That's good, but if reminds me of the Isuzu Impulse with it's "handling by Lotus" advertising schemes back in the late 80's.........

It's all advertising BS.

Umm, Lotus really did help design that car. It shares a lot with the Lotus Elan.

If you want a Porsche/Subaru hybrid, why not sell the Sti motor for $5000 (someone told me they go for that much, I don't know) and add another $3000, buy and install a older 911 3.3 Turbo engine, which after getting Raceware headstuds would handle over 800whp with other bolt-ons.

You can also get a classic Porsche and retrofit an STI motor into it, search for Porscharu and you'll find a couple.

[d993s]

1. Thats why there is the Blitzen Legacy as well as the WRX Type Euro (Porsche modified bugeye WRX wagon).




2. SOA put a 2.5 in the car since Americans are fat and want torquier motors. Other things also changed for the US market were seats and spring rates (much softer).




3. Umm, Lotus really did help design that car. It shares a lot with the Lotus Elan.



4. You can also get a classic Porsche and retrofit an STI motor into it, search for Porscharu and you'll find a couple.

1. Spoilers that resemble a superior car do nothing more than attract ricers and euro-wannabes that have more brains than $.
2. Bad mistake (same mistake also made by many German car manufacturers for US Spec cars in the last 10 or so years).
3. A different set of shocks, a camber adjustment, and some stickers do not qualify as "shares a lot with the Elan", and what miniscule level of "help design" do you consider that to be?
4. Reducing the value of a car can be done in many ways