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Originally Posted by Franisco
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Touche.
Anyway, it looks like this debate really splits our community in half.
It all comes down to who likes factory boosted engines vs high revving/high output NA motors.
Personally, I'm with the latter. Fact is, more R&D is going to go into the combustion chamber burn properties and head flow characteristics on an NA motor, which means that when I boost it, it will have more HP/TQ than the comparable factory boosted engine. IMO, factory turbo'd motors tend to cut corners during development. The reasoning behind my hypothesis are the dyno charts of several aftermarket boosted engines on various cars (mainly Nissan and Honda) are INCREDIBLY responsive to boost, more so than comparable factory boosted variants.
And don't give me shit about the factory boosted variants being more reliable. It's not hard to properly bulletproof an engine, it just takes educated planning during the building and tuning phases.
All I am saying is that I want the better engine to start with, so I can get the most HP/TQ in the end after I'm through with it. If Subaru does everything on the engine and it turns out to be up to par with current high output I4's, then I'm all for it. If Toyota takes over the heads just for that reason, all for that too. If Subaru drops the ball and just puts in their dumb 150HP 2.0L, then, well, they're stupid.
Also, I am biased to higher revving motors as well, as it gives me more room to play with gearing....plus it just sounds bad ass.
Anyway, in the end, Subaru makes pretty cool motors...i really like the H4....but when it comes down to modern performance numbers (on paper), they just don't cut it. This doesn't mean they
can't compete in our little game, they (Subaru) just choose to do things differently.