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Originally Posted by s2_slow
100hp/liter is kind of low by todays standards. Honda has been making 100hp/ a liter or greater for years. In the early 90s they made the b16 1.6 @ 165 hp, in 1994 b18c5 1.8 @ 200 hp. Both of these were in cars that cost under $22000. And in 1999 f20c 2.0 @240 hp.
Toyota made the 4A-GE 20v in 1991 1.6l making 165 hp. This engine was a gem with individual throttle bodies...
21 YEARS after these engines were made the best subaru could come up with was a 2.0 making 200 hp?
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naming three cars sounds like the exception. three cars of yesteryear hardly make a case for a new standard. none of those motors had to deal with the regulations of today and all of those motors had more than one cam profile to allow them to be so open up top without having nothing down low. technology can only change so much. air can only travel so fast at only so many angles. can you name a single car in production from japan or anywhere that is south of supercar and makes more than 100hp/liter? let alone at 7k rpm