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Originally Posted by thill
As has been said many times, there is definitely room with the stock chassis for this car to make 300hp and 220+ ft lbs of torque at the crank. Subaru has several boxer engines available that are turbocharged and can be dropped in this car that would not change the characteristics of the car drastically. The biggest concern would be turbo lag, but that can be managed with a smaller turbo and good tuning.
I don't recall the last WRX I drove having excessive turbo lag, but I have owned turbo cars and am fairly used to it.
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I agree and I think this is where Tada really dropped the ball. He specifically did not want a turbo. He wanted the NA throttle response. His youth/inexperience missed the fact that a high compression DIT is a much different animal than even the last WRX. A DIT engine can have throttle response that is very very good. A big missed opportunity that would have added little cost to the car. Hell a $14k Chevy Sonic has a DIT engine and test driving one you would never guess it had a turbo.