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Nice conversion for the Diesel

Subaru will introduce a 4-cylinder horizontally-opposed (boxer) turbo diesel engine at the Geneva International Motor Show next month. This is not only its first diesel, but the first boxer turbo diesel. Subaru had announced at the 2006 Paris motor show that development of the turbo diesel was almost complete.
Due for its first vehicle application early next year, the Subaru boxer turbo diesel is a highly rigid unit with low levels of noise and vibration.
This eliminates the need for a balancer shaft which counters uneven combustion pressures and general roughness. Subaru's first diesel is as compact as its gasoline units and combines unusually strong pulling power at low engine speeds with high-rev throttle-response.
Subaru will unveil both the engine and a symmetrical all-wheel drive drivetrain as part of its press conference at the show on 6 March.



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Single chain part in this engine reminds me of early development methods for chain drives.

Just gotta wait 10 years before they become cheap enough to buy a scapper off flea-bay as a donor vehicle

plenty of cheepish V6 TDIs in the scappers by the time they hit the yards

Will be a nice lump, I bet. Chain drive is same as H-6, keeps engine length down... very low c.g. whole unit. Very narrow journal bearings
Pretty powerful too for a 2.0

That's a nice picture of it, what d'ya think the black bands on the pistons are, or are meant to represent, a specific finish/coating?

Stereo pistons!

VW already make a very very nice 1.9TDI

Took 20 years but they got it right in the end...

Russel at Syncro-Nutz wrote:VW already make a very very nice 1.9TDI

Yes they do and fit neatly in with little extra work and parts are cheep, well cheeper