> Religion! Just a little larger than the one that got away. Numbers! Data!
> Just takes discipline, planning then real numbers. Numbers are good. Like
> Subaru torque curves, brake specific fuel consumption - oops, slipped into
> fantasy again.

Engine                          Power (HP)      Torque (FT/LBS)

1.9 Wasserboxer                 82@4800                 105@2600        83-85 Vanagon
2.1 Wasserboxer                 90@4800                 117@3200        86-92 Vanagon

Golf Inline 4 (I4)              105@5400                114@3800        DIGIFANT
2.0 Golf Inline 4 (I4)          115@5400                122@3200  CIS-Motronic
2.2 Suburu Legacy               130@5600                137@4400        OBD-1 Subaru

1.Here are your numbers.

>
> Good, glad to hear. But no badge. I've got more than 100K on mine, nothing
> wrong except for early muffler crystallization problems.
>

2. May Allah bless you with another turn of the odometer.
>

> Yawn, I prefer the color of purple.
>
3. You and Oprah have something in common.
>
> Never been there. In my vehicle 65 mph defines a specific rpm. My readline is
> 7000.
>
4. Redline means nothing it's the horses and torque developed along the way.
>
> Religion! Yellow is brighter than orange. I drove them, they were dogs. All
> automatic little piggies. Never drove a 2.5 or 3.3 but I do believe the
> displacements are larger than the 2.2. Of course the available numbers show
> that the technology of the 3.3 is identical to the Phase I 2.5. Phase II
> clearly superior. Numbers are good.

5. I hope to put a stray WRX engine to good use someday in my syncro.

>
> True, but not as advanced as the VW  I4 1.8L engines from 1988 on. See the
> numbers Brake mean effective pressure. No religion, just facts.
>
6. The average effective pressure of the cylinders as they progress
through intake, compression, ignition and exhaust strokes is fine for
pointyheads, but my subie can beat up your I4.
Nyeh nyeh nyeh!!

                                                                                                Mike Garske