First of all, the 3.0L H6 is totally dead for 2010. Second of all, it's way too high compression for the STi. It'd be a totally different engine if they wanted to boost it to the point where it would probably share more in common with the EJ series than the H6 series. Perrin just beefed the hell out of the internals on one so they could throw in like 16psi of boost and hit ~400whp and call it quits. Realistically, there's 2.0L EJ's that put that to shame.
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The guages are way off and not set to the new engine either. If you look closely...the RPMs are probably hitting 9-10k before he's shifting. Not possible on a H-6. I've watched those shows like modified and whatever on speed. If your doing a engine swap on a car and can't replace the dash and ecu to match the engine. You have to re-program the ecu to match the new engine's rpms. Its not a simple concept. Heck, any built EJ can run with that perrin car or out perform it. But, it would be nice if they built a H-6 with lower compressions and made it simular to a EJ. That way you could easily boost it.
He even says it. "So 5000 is 3200 RPM" Meaning that the RPM gauge is off by a factor of ~1.6 so when it looks like 9-10k RPM's on the gauge, it's actually 5500-6000 RPMs. This is a typical pain in the ass when dealing with engine swaps.
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Something else I noticed: if you look at the car relative to the scenery, it looks like a relatively smooth ride, but if you look at the driver relative to the car, he's bouncing around like crazy! Looks like a very harsh ride. Anybody have any idea what kind of suspension setup he might have? I don't ever want my car to handle like that.
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They had to put in beefier front springs and struts to support the engine and it totally ####ed up the handling of the car. There's a whole discussion on NASIOC from the guy they eventually sold it to. Also, the motor blew once while they had it and again not long after they sold it. It handles 16psi just fine because it's overbuilt but nobody's worked with the guts of a H6 so there were lots of little mistakes.
The experiment was a sucess if your goal was proving it could be done or making respectable power. It was a total failure if your goal was showing a possible turbo H6 upgrade for Impreza owners. Most of the EJ knowledge and experience doesn't transfer over, the motor needs a lot of expensive custom work to handle any boost at all, and the results are not that impressive comparatively and have lots of other adverse effects on the car.
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Oh, I missed that part mosc. Thanks. . I just know it takes a oscillator and a lot more knowledge than most to get the rpm sensor to match up to the new engine's crank or whatever they use for rpms. I've seen it done on those shows and it doesn't look easy for the common man.
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. I just know it takes a oscillator and a lot more knowledge than most to get the rpm sensor to match up to the new engine's crank or whatever they use for rpms. I've seen it done on those shows and it doesn't look easy for the common man.
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