Hope this has not been done; however difficult to tell without search being fully available.

Just read the review in Jap performance on Ian (sic?) Litchfield's new car. This seems to be an awesome conversion with loads of potential to produce much higher figures than have been "conservatively" derived to date.

The thought that strikes me is this: considering that Prodrive have a favoured, in-house relationship with Subaru/IM, why didn't they consider this conversion as a "PPP solution" in the first place? The Americans always say nothing satisfies quite like a cubic inch (or two) which has always driven their philosophy for deriving more power. This would have got round some of their (Prodrives) concerns about e.g. breaching the performance envelopes for the OEM Turbo installation in the standard car that they were grappling with (allegedly) in the early days of PPP development.

If the 2.5 litre block is there for the taking why isn't this in a Prodrive developed IM offering (with warranty of course). Should this have been THE WR1 rather than the (comparatively) tame car that we will be seing in the metal soon?

Any constructive views on this? More a discussion/musing point than anything else. I have posted here as I expect to see some engineering views on this rather than the usual noise in General.

Cheers

WB

 

Fitting a new engine is probably beyond the realms of an aftermarket PPP solution. Would work well in a special edition though. P2?

 

They'd have been better importing some 2.5 cars and then tweaking the suspension, ECU and zorts to derive a true "special edition"