

| Subject: | Re: Whoa! H6 subie & Dieselboxer |
| From: | Sudhir Desai |
| Date: | Tue, 4 Sep 2007 19:33:33 -0400 |
I sure hope it's not the ED series of engines. Or, if it is, hopefully they all have turbos. :D Sudhir > As to the diesel Subaru engine, what's the bet the fours are going to be > called ED? Or possibly Dx... hopefully, now that Toyota is majority > sheraholder, Toyota's diesel gurus will have gone over the Subaru design to > pick out any weaknesses for preproduction changes... but the secondhand > owner can still expect cracking heads. > <http://www.autoblog.com/photos/subaru-boxer-turbo-diesel/176943/> > The engine appears to have unlined chromed bores similarly to Kawasaki's > Electrofusion & BMW's Nikasil of the 80s. Apparently they will bolt right up > to existing transmissions, which would not bode well for those > transmissions, which are suspect even with gas engines.
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