New Boxer Pistons To Triple Output

[MR_Loyale]

SUBARU OF AMERICA, INC. REPORTS BEST OUTPUT EVER

        
  April  1, 2014               
        
   Cherry Hill, N.J. -    Continuing its long history of boxer engine innovation, Subaru of America, Inc. has reported a breakthrough in boxer engine technology. "I don't know why we never thought of it earlier" exclaimed Mr. Tomomi Nakamura, chairman and CEO of Subaru of America. The new piston design is more efficient and compliments our existing boxer engine designs. Beginning May of this year, all new F series boxer engines will receive larger boxer pistons, bringing an anticipated power increase of over 27% for each boxlinder, the new term Subaru has coined for the square volume in which the new box pistons travel.  A typical four boxlyinder FB squared engine is expected to output four times the power and sixteen times the torque of the existing engines. In a boxlynder engine, the larger square pistons move up and down a square shaped tunnel or boxlynder, as opposed to the cylindrical shape of current engine designs.

 

Chief Engineer Tanakapril Gatsafoolyamura explained it in simple terms. "A circle inscribed inside a square has only 78% of the potential volume of an equivalent boxlyinder." He illustrated with a drawing.

 

 

  Larger Volume Box

 

 

 

 

The design stems from innovative research on the subject from the University of Tokyo's KATO and OOKA Laboratories.

 

http://venus.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp/kato_ooka.html

 

 

Fig. 1 Flowfield around boxlyinder model placed in wind tunnel
(Flow visualized using Laser Light Sheet)

 

 

 

By late 2014, Subaru intends to release a new automobile, dubbed the BOX (Box Only Xperience) based on the current BRZ platform. Giving in to critics complaints the sports car lacks power, the new BOX is expected to debut with a 600hp NA engine using the new FBX engine. Torque values are expected to top 800 ft lb on premium fuel.  Expected sticker price is to be in the low 30K range according to sources inside the company.

Edited April 2, 2014 by MR_Loyale

[spicypeanut]

You had me going there for a second, haha. Well done Subaru.

[Tsuru]

egads,

 

For a moment I had horrifying visions of the Honda NR, V4, 8 valve per cylinder Oval Pistoned nightmare...

 

thank goodness for us, it is only a (bad) dream.

 

Well executed, but still...ok, it's funny.

[ivans imports]

Thinking inside the boxer lol

[BoostedBoxer421]

April fools right??

 

haha can you imagine what that would sound like?

[Tsuru]

...what, with all the scraping and blow-by?

would sound rather like a ratted out and much abused VW I think.