List of Subaru engines
Overview
Subaru
; is the automobile manufacturing division of Japanese transportation conglomerate Fuji Heavy Industries .Subaru is internationally known for their use of the boxer engine layout popularized in cars by the Volkswagen Beetle and Porsche 911, in most of their vehicles above 1500 cc as well as...
uses a four or five character code to identify all of their engines.
- The first letter is always E standing for engineEngineAn engine or motor is a machine designed to convert energy into useful mechanical motion. Heat engines, including internal combustion engines and external combustion engines burn a fuel to create heat which is then used to create motion...
(before the introduction of FB engine series) - The second letter is the engine's family.
- Next come two digits indicating the engine's displacement (or revision before 1989)
- The optional fifth character is an identifier to mark revisions, (ex: turbo, DOHC, Fuel InjectionFuel injectionFuel injection is a system for admitting fuel into an internal combustion engine. It has become the primary fuel delivery system used in automotive petrol engines, having almost completely replaced carburetors in the late 1980s....
, etc.)
The EK series is a straight twin two-stroke cycle with early air-cooled versions later replaced with water-cooled configurations in 1971.
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