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Old 12-05-2008, 04:40 AM
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Help me, please

Anyone, can you help me?

I kindly ask of you to give me information as to the issues I am interested in concerning Subaru SVX car produced in 1994 wits a reference to data from a manufacturing plant. I need this information in order to determine technical qualities of the car mentioned above.

Issues are the following:

1. What is the breaking length in meters of Subaru SVX car produced in 1994 when it reaches the moving speed 60 km/h?
2. What is the stopping distance in meters of Subaru SVX car produced in 1994 when it reaches the moving speed 60 km/h?
3. At which minimal speed of movement in case of a frontal crash of Subaru SVX car a driver`s airbag is actuated?

The road: a wet asphalt-concrete wits level of profile.


Respectfully yours and gratefully,
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Old 12-08-2008, 03:24 PM
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Re: Help me, please

Try this site.. http://www.subarusvx.com/
Hope it helps..


Can anyone move this to general svx babble or help this guy? Vendors..?
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Old 12-09-2008, 02:59 AM
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Re: Help me, please

I have moved this thread to SVX Babble because it was in the wrong place in Vendors.

As they are technical questions, possibly it should be in the Technical section. However, I have never actually seen the answers to the questions Eugene is asking here. So possibly the greater numbers using SVX Babble may have come across road tests or official information that may give the answers.

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Oh, and I take it that questions 1 and 2 are actually the same thing; what is the braking distance for the SVX on level wet asphalt from 60 km/hr?

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Re: Help me, please

The stopping distance is in the Autocar "Better than a Jaguar XJS" roadtest. But I can't quite read it on my screen.

http://www.geocities.com/jamsvx2/autocar5.html
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Thanks Phil

My SVX road tests are all up in Scotland with John "blueji" at the moment, awaiting compilation.

That's a bad scan and I can't read it all either, but I managed to decipher by comparing to a contemporary Autocar test.

The roads were wet and the SVX as tested was fitted with ABS.

The distances were:

30 mph..................................9.8 m
50 mph.................................26.4 m
70 mph.................................51.6 m
Standing quarter mile[86 mph]..82.9 m


These tests were conducted in miles per hour, although the braking distances are in metres.

There is no equivalent of the figure that Eugune requested, 60 kph. If they did 40 mph, that would be approx 64 kph, but it was not a normal parameter for them. [They test town speeds, road speeds and motorway speeds, 30,50,70]

Extrapolating between the 30 and 50 figures would indicate a probable
stopping distance from 60 kph of about 15 m, maybe a little less
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Re: Help me, please

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Anyone, can you help me?

I kindly ask of you to give me information as to the issues I am interested in concerning Subaru SVX car produced in 1994 wits a reference to data from a manufacturing plant. I need this information in order to determine technical qualities of the car mentioned above.

Issues are the following:

1. What is the breaking length in meters of Subaru SVX car produced in 1994 when it reaches the moving speed 60 km/h?
2. What is the stopping distance in meters of Subaru SVX car produced in 1994 when it reaches the moving speed 60 km/h?
3. At which minimal speed of movement in case of a frontal crash of Subaru SVX car a driver`s airbag is actuated?

The road: a wet asphalt-concrete wits level of profile.


Respectfully yours and gratefully,
Evgeniy Strychak


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Evgeniy

Apologies mate. I almost forgot. Your very first post. Welcome to the SVX World Network!

What colour is your SVX? Please post up pictures. We would love to see them.

Regards your 3rd question, I'm fairly sure nobody here will have a definitive answer on that one. You might be able to get information directly from Subaru, they are the only ones who would have the engineering knowledge.

What I can say for certainty is there are a number of types of and angles of impact where Subaru says the airbags may NOT deploy. It requires very specific direct impact of the required severity in the correct direction to make them fire. This by definition means there will not be a direct linear relationship between speed of the vehicle and the impact required to fire the airbags, particularly if the vehicles hit at any angle other than straight on.

Oh!, one last thing. The braking distances given above from the Autocar Road test are from a 1992 car, which is mechanically identical to a 1994 car with ABS.
However, these distances are the minimum stopping distances measured. They were measured on a new car with all braking systems 100% operational and good tyres.
It is entirely reasonable to suspect that stopping distances achieved on a now 14 year old SVX could be a lot longer in metres than these figures shown above due to expected deterioration of the braking system over 14 years.

For such a heavy car the brakes on an SVX are only mediocre, and the rear brakes in particular tend to deteriorate a lot with age.

So be careful in your SVX and don't rely on the stopping distances from this road test. Your 14 year old SVX is sure to need a lot more distance to stop safely than a new car would.

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