091 Japanese Paranoia
Listening to the old drunkard's words, Lin Xiangbei walked step by step to the blue Subaru Impreza.
Many car companies have their own exclusive colors, such as Mercedes-Benz's silver, Audi's gray, Mazda's "soul-moving red", etc.
For Subaru, the blue stars on the Pleiades star cluster on the car logo are its logo, symbolizing the wider sky.
Many people know that Mazda's paranoid and pursuit of "rotor engines" have even bet on the future of the company on the rotor engines. But in fact, among Japanese performance cars, Mazda is not the only one who is paranoid in such a paranoid company, Subaru is also a "parasterant".
Its paranoid direction is pulling force!
It can be said that Subaru's history is the history of rally. Its most iconic horizontal opposing engines and all-time four-wheel drive systems are all for the pursuit of perfect balance ratio and are destined to be born for pulling.
To be honest, Lin Xiangbei didn't have much feelings about Japanese cars, or he treated almost equally any car series except domestic ones.
However, he appreciates that in some aspects, people or things can be achieved at the extreme. After all, persistence is not an easy thing.
Seeing Lin Xiangbei's eyes on the blue Subaru Impreza, Lezai stood beside him, pushed his glasses and said.
"This is the Wrc2008 version of Subaru Impreza. Without the STI suffix, it has been changed to the Subaru Impreza Ge. The double-wrench arm suspension, which performed extremely poorly in the previous 07 version, was also changed to the traditional McPherson suspension."
"The entire car has been welded the roll cage, installed with Honeywell's competitive turbine, Bosch race-level ECU, Cosworth's full control system, and the fully replacing readable data racing computer program I wrote."
"In terms of power, the engine has been fully structurally strengthened, forged pistons, strengthened valves, customized crankshafts, etc. The gearbox has been replaced with xtrac 6-speed serial four-wheel drive gearbox."
"The brake system uses an A-carbon fiber three-piece clutch, carbon ceramic scribe brake disc, and a Brembo aluminum forged integrated calipers."
"besides……"
Just as Lezai continued to talk about the results of the car's transformation, Lin Xiangbei interrupted him.
"You are professional in terms of modification. I just want to understand one thing, that is, if this car is on the track, how strong is the performance?"
After all, Lin Xiangbei is not a professional racing engineer. After becoming an F1 driver in his previous life, he made up for a lot of mechanical principles and even aerodynamics, but he is incomparable to professionals.
And he didn't understand what the performance standards of rally racing cars in this era are, so Lezai said this long paragraph, which would be better to simply and roughly tell Lin Xiangbei how strong this car is!
"This Subaru Ge is currently adjusted to 300 horsepower and has a peak torque of 610 Nm. If it is driven on the British Silverstone track to test, I believe its pole lap speed will not lose to flagship supercars from Ferrari, McLaren, Lamborghini and other brands."
"Or to put it simply, it can compete with supercars with 300p horsepower on the track at least with 600p horsepower!"
Le Zai does have a strong scientific and engineering thinking. When Lin Xiangbei asked him to be concise and clear, he directly used the roughest horsepower comparison method.
“Very good and powerful.”
Lin Xiangbei nodded with satisfaction. Qin Hao did not recommend the wrong person. Lezai was able to modify this powerful Subaru Ge, which is truly the strongest automotive engineering institution in Asia, and was born in Tsukuba University.
Although the rally cars only have only 300p horsepower, many Japanese performance cars from more than ten or twenty years ago, such as Toyota's 2jz Red-headed Bull Demon King engine, Mitsubishi 4g63, Nissan GTR's RB26dett, etc., can exceed 1,000 horsepower under sudden modifications.
But the most terrifying thing about WRC engines is that they are low speed and high torque. The torque force exceeding kg/m is almost the standard for diesel engines.
If the extreme acceleration is not considered, then its starting explosion and rapid acceleration capabilities, let alone a 600p supercar, even if it adds 300p horsepower, it will not be able to run away!
"No, this can only be said to be qualified and not considered powerful."
Faced with Lin Xiangbei's praise, Le Zai shook his head.
"This car does not have the entire car customized carbon fiber, no equipment for stability testing, and even the aerodynamic appearance does not have wind tunnel data, which is still far from it."
Lin Xiangbei didn't know what to say about Lezai's high standards. Motorsports would have become more and more professional and highly integrated as time goes by.
Ten years later, even car manufacturers will find it difficult to complete WRC racing independently. It needs to be handed over to several specialized manufacturers engaged in WRC racing manufacturing. It is rare for Leza to complete this step.
Of course, car accumulation is not the same concept as R&D, the latter is the real difficulty.
"Boy, do you want to give it a try?"
The old drunkard looked at Lin Xiangbei's heart-to-heart look, took a cigarette and said.
"Now?"
"Now."
"Okay, then I'll give it a try."
Lin Xiangbei has been introduced by Le Zai for a long time and is eager to try it out. Then let’s get started and experience how powerful this Subaru Ge is!
The old drunkard, as usual, did not talk nonsense, opened the passenger door and sat in.
On the other hand, Lin Xiangbei also got into the driving position and started the racing car. This horizontally opposed ej20 engine began to roar like a sleeping beast being awakened.
"Boy shows you all your strength and let me see how to lead by 2 seconds!"
The old drunkard exhaled a cigarette ring, then bounced the cigarette butt out of the car window, and a piece of Mars flashed through the air.
Xu Lang has been retired for many years and is also paralyzed and degenerated in alcohol, but being overwhelmed by a junior still touched the pride of the driver deep in his heart.
"Uncle Xu, then you have to sit firmly."
Lin Xiangbei's mouth smiled faintly, and he kicked the accelerator and rushed out like an arrow.
The old drunkard is his elder and has also given a lot of help, but from the perspective of the driver, he is also the target he must surpass and defeat.
The Subaru Ge is like a blue phantom, passing through the "country trail" in Tsuen Wan, Hong Kong Island at an incredible speed. The trail is just a little wider than the body. Lin Xiangbei's speed exceeded 100 in just a few seconds.
Without prior inspection of the road or guidance, Lin Xiangbei found the latest brake point on almost every curve, the ultimate center of gravity control of the curve, and even when there was a jump, Lin Xiangbei adjusted the body posture in the air.
If it weren't for sitting in the passenger seat and seeing it with your own eyes, Xu Lang wouldn't believe that the improvement in driving skills in a month can be so exaggerated!
And Xu Lang also discovered a little difference at this time. He previously thought that Lin Xiangbei was leaning towards a steady-state driver like Loeb, so he found a target for imitating the game video, which was also the most advanced running method.
As a result, I felt it again today that Lin Xiangbei's style is more like the "Scottish Flying Man" Colin McCree.
The car was extremely wild and radical, and there was almost no trace of brake slowing down. Even in the corner, Lin Xiangbei used a speed that could be called turning the car over.
At this time, a famous saying by Colin appeared in Xu Lang's mind: "The straight road is used to test the express train, and the curve is used to test the express train."
Chapter completed!