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Re: Is your H6 buttery smooth?
My SVX runs smooth as butter. My Legacy also runs smooth as butter. When I drive the 2001 Volvo Wagon V70 Cross country, there's a noticably less comfortable ride, primarily in engine vibration, when I compare to my Legacy, almost identicle cars. Inline 5 cylander vs H-4 or H-6, I think the horizontally opposed engines are one of the key aspects to the smooth ride of my Subaru's.
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*No SVX at the moment...* 1987 Winnebago Elandan 35' 2001 Yamaha Roadstar 1600 2004 Ford Excursion Eddie Bauer, 6.0litre Power Stroke Diesel - Daily Driver. Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, scotch in one hand, body thoroughly used up, totally worn out and screaming HOOOOYA !!!!! |
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Re: Is your H6 buttery smooth?
Smooth as butter. Can't even tell it's running at times. My two legacys are the same. At times they don't even sound like they are running.
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94 SVX LSI 2001 LegacyGT (daughter's ride now) 2005 Legacy outback XT (wife's car) all stock and likely staying that way for now 1981 Datsun 280zxturbo summer toy |
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Re: Is your H6 buttery smooth?
i forget mine is running sometimes while i'm stopped. but there are other times where it my idle bounces from 400 to 1000 and i'm not sure what is causing that or why it is only some of the time. Mine needs new plugs pretty badly and i wouldn't be surprised if the insulation on the packs is bad.
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Re: Is your H6 buttery smooth?
Mine purrs at about 800 rpms, also you cannot tell if it's running or not. Its got about 138k on it now.
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Seth 94' Barcelona Red w/ Tricoat black 2-tone AWD Ls -Sold Mods:AWD conversion/4.44 swap by Budfreak, Custom red interior lights, Custom Satin black dash, Power mode switch, Cold air intake, Permecool tranny filter,Sony xplode 10" sub, Sony xplode 1000w amp, Blitz in-line driver, DDM Tuning 6000k HID's, New paint job/body work by me, 97' Grill, QC shift kit, 17'' MB Motoring rims, 15&20 min mod, front & rear urethane swaybar bushings, Custom fiberglass sub box, Custom red led a/c control unit, perrin lightweight crank pulley, Black wrinkle finish powdercoated intake manifold w/ clear hoses , 02' outback heated/power black leather seats Soon to come:Fiberglass hood, upholster ALL suede to black leather Past subies: 92' Pearl White/black top LS-L-SOLD 96' Legacy Outback-TOTALED 99' Legacy Outback Limited 30th anniversary edition-TOTALED 98' Forester L -Totaled Other toys: 99' Forester S -WRX brake upgrade, soon an 04 wrx motor swap 06' B9 Tribeca-Stock 1982' Yamaha xj650 Maxim Mods: work in progress |
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Re: Is your H6 buttery smooth?
i can't say its going smooth and i can't say shes not. it is going well, seems to be knocking...i've been told this sounds like a rear crank bearing....
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Re: Is your H6 buttery smooth?
Just drove mine to Reno and back from Orange county, and she ran great! Before I left there was a small issue, after turning the key to start the engine would briefly idle fast like a normal startup, but then immediately dip and then return to a faster idle instead of the fast idle gradually slowing to normal. After the trip it starts and cold idles fine.... I think it just got gunked up from 5 months of 2 or 3 mile short city trips. I have 138k now, and the engine seems just great to me..... love the HO six's!
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Re: Is your H6 buttery smooth?
mines pretty good. but i think it could be running an wee bit smoother
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1992 NZDM SVX Maroonish Red/Black ( 1st car ive owned with an cd player ) Has been retired 1989 Vortex 6 Maroon 1983 RX Silver Grey 1973 1400 GSR Yelo 2 Door Coupe awaiting Restoration |
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Re: Is your H6 buttery smooth?
Mine runs smooth at 156k, many things have been changed except for any of the coil packs.
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Re: Is your H6 buttery smooth?
Mine has 123k and is smooth and quiet. Occasionally after the car has warmed my idle will drop a tad low, but that should be easy to fix. I just finished the 4.11 swap so I am on to that next. I have about 63k miles on these plugs so I am sure they could use a change. I have all the records and as far as I can tell these are original coil packs.
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