10-22-2009, 05:01 PM
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Originally Posted by OldSkoolToys
I'd say any speculation is educated guessing at best, and hopeful if not mislead optimism at worst.
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I couldn't agree more:
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Originally Posted by Deslock
In the end, all of our predictions are just educated guesses.
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Originally Posted by OldSkoolToys
They keep saying this engine is "unique" to the FT-86. Ie: it is not currently a boxer that is in production.
There's an article that was quoted on this site (different thread) that stated pretty simply that Toyota has put a lot of their own engineering into the powerplant, which pretty much negates any comparison's with older boxer engines, imho. Originally I believe people were thinking that subaru was doing most the leg work and Toyota was only throwing in their fuel injection system. Looks like Toyota has done a bit more than just that.
All of that aside, it is an engine designed from scratch, made specifically for this chassis, for this car, and for its purpose. To say this HP number isn't possible for this budget, and vice versa, is pretty pointless.
All we can go by is that they stated they want the power range to be ~200, so, yeah....thats my prediction. Probably 200ps. So, what...180hp?
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Thanks for the information on the engine's development. Though doesn't 200ps = 197hp? I'd be more than happy with that.
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