New Subaru 2.0 Litre common Rail Diesel Boxer engine

Post by **Stuart** » Mon Feb 18, 2008 8:42 pm

Just been reading about this in the What Diesel Magazine. Apparently it's quieter than a Rolls-Royce Phantom at 70.5db and unlike inline diesel's, has a wider spread of power through the range. Also vibration is very low due to the opposed nature and, as you can see from the picture, is pretty small

I don't quite think it's the worlds first boxer diesel (as the magazine claims) though.

Post by **Byrdman** » Tue Feb 19, 2008 5:22 am

Jeeze, it looks absolutely tiny!

TimppaX · Post by **TimppaX** » Tue Feb 19, 2008 9:10 am

Could it be that size?????

It´s like made to be used in Ural/Dnepr based diesel bikes.

oilburner · Post by **oilburner** » Tue Feb 19, 2008 9:49 pm

The crankshaft may be tiny (think VW aircooled Beetle) but the tall OHC cylinder heads, intercooler, turbocharger etc. take up a huge amount of room:
[img]http://www.carpages.co.uk/subaru/s ... .jpg[/img]

For a 1280 X 1510 size of the above go to the following link:
http://www.autoblog.com/media/2007/02/d ... r_1280.jpg

You could probably buy 100 Dneprs for the cost of one engine.

Post by **Stuart** » Tue Feb 19, 2008 11:41 pm

Oooo, that looks a lot bigger don't it?

Not much chance of shoving that into a bike

TimppaX · Post by **TimppaX** » Wed Feb 20, 2008 7:55 am

Just can´t wait till someone modifies it to fit in russian frame. Most components can be replaced/substitued. ie ripping turbocharger away. etc

Post by **Stuart** » Tue Mar 04, 2008 10:38 pm

Just came across an animation of this thing running

http://youtube.com/watch?v=-G5TcWg0TMc

andrewaust · Post by **andrewaust** » Sun Mar 09, 2008 2:30 pm

Bugger!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

CIDE · Post by **CIDE** » Sat Mar 12, 2011 10:46 pm

It shouldn't be the first boxer diesel. Didn't VW do it as a prototype for a bug with the 1.3 liter?

Regardless, really cool motor.

TedV · Post by **TedV** » Sun Mar 13, 2011 8:14 pm

CIDE wrote:It shouldn't be the first boxer diesel. Didn't VW do it as a prototype for a bug with the 1.3 liter?

Regardless, really cool motor.

yup, in the 50's. it was so slow the people who stole it left it on the side of the road and walked way.

CIDE · Post by **CIDE** » Mon Mar 14, 2011 4:45 am

That's pretty bad. I wonder would they'd be able to do now with modern technology and a type 1 motor. There's been some pretty crazy bug-builds out there.

Nanko · Post by **Nanko** » Mon Mar 14, 2011 11:10 am

http://www.customfighters.com/2383/ian- ... otorcycle/

Post by **Stuart** » Sun Jul 03, 2011 6:40 am

A nice write up of the developement process

http://www.boxerdiesel.com/engineering/en/01.html

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