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You know that world record (2.5 times around the world) that our cars set in 1989?

Well the average speed INCLUDING PIT STOPS was 223.345 kilometer = 138.780148930247 mile per hour!

I dont know how I didnt see it previously.

http://www.fhi.co.jp/english/corp/history.htm

Yeah! the first thing I did when I saw the speed was convert it to MPH . That's haulin. and for THAT FREAKING LONG! 100,000km was it?

I also like the whole "first group N car ever to finish safari rally" thing . both these records speak tomes for the durability of all the car's components.

anybody know if that was a turbo?

Shouldnt have been, it makes no mention of turbo on any of the sites and the test took place in 89 so the car would have been one of the pre production or first off the line and the turbo didnt exist for sale at that time. Just a guess though

Oh yes, the speed record Legacy was most certainly turbo! Don't think an NA would be capable of that...

Looking at my brochure and there is definitely a hoodscoop...

It was indeed a turbo, but not a US-model one (the US didn't even have a turbo in 1989). It was a Japanese-spec Legacy RS 5-speed sedan.

There are a couple other examples of Subarus winning these types of endurance races. In 1993, when the Mark II Legacy was first sold, a Japanese Legacy GT wagon set a speed record for station wagons, getting an average of around 250 km/h over a round trip of a 1-mile section of the Bonneville Salt Flats. The car was picked at random from the factory, and had no special modifications except for removal of the speed limiter and some safety equipment like a roll bar and a safety harness for the driver.

In 1996, a Forester (again chosen at random from the factory and without performance modifications) set a record for fastest average speed over a 24-hour period. It was something around 180 km/h.

Then, in 1998, a 3rd-generation JDM Legacy GT wagon again set the record for fastest production station wagon, at something like 270 km/h, under similar circumstances as the 1993 run, except on a real road (bumps and all) rather than on the salt flats.

Someone had asked me to post this picture in another thread, but this one's more appropriate.



That's me at 12 or 13. Too bad you can't see the stylin' bowl hair cut.

Steve

You suck Steve

Most impressive.

You are awesome!

I thought that the record was set by the legacy rs-ra (ra= record attempt)
or was that just a production version commemorating the record, with the same built engine and other mods.
I don't really know though...
Micum

The second one

Ah you youngsters.

I started driving a sube back in 1988 or so when I flipped my moms datsun station wagon ON VACATION! (oooh, man I felt bad) We ended up with a 1977 1600 Subaru DL soon afterwords.

Anyway, a few things

I was always on the lookout for all things Subaru back then and I remember when the speed record was set. One of the things they did to acheive this average hight speed was the huge use of DUCT TAPE. All hood gaps, door gaps, headlight gaps and so on were ducttaped. Makes sense doesnt it, less drag!

The other point is just braggin points for me. I rebuilt my old 1977 1600 engine at one point with lightly shaved heads and was probably putting out 60 hp or so. However the damn thing would scat. I went on a road trip in 1990 and traveled one day 1000 miles without stopping except to piss and get gas. Now here is the braggin point. At one point in this trip accross North Dakota I did 400 miles in 4 1/2 hours! I still got passed 3 or 4 times though. Damn that was a high rpm trip cause I only had a 4 speed.

I want my old car back, whahhhhhhhh!

Yeah, the salt flat cars all have the duct taped openings and such, too. They block off radiator openings even.

I want to build a front mid-engined twin-V8 car for the speed races at some point with one engine driving the rear and the other (reverse turning marine engine) turning the front though a Toronado transaxle.

I drove from Hampton, VA to Danvers, MA in 9.5 hrs in my '83 sedan. Only rated at 73 HP, but it made a lot of torque for its size. I was pulling over 100 through most of NJ in a train with (what were then new) Cadillac, M3 and GS400 - I think they were surprised I stuck with them the whole time, but with NJTP cops you need tricks to avoid tickets. I also try to make it through so I wouldn't have to stop and geta place in NJ. Not that a 9.5 HR drive required a rest stop.

I miss those '83-4s. Someday I'll find a hardtop.

Steve

THAWA wrote:The second one

Actually Thawa, you got it backwards. The car used to set the record was an RS-RA. Part of setting the record as a "production" vehicle was a minimun of 200 units produced, and thus the first prodcustion run of RS-RA's in 1989...

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