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We are in the middle of a big snow dump in Tassie at the moment so I went out for a drive today. As my lifted Liberty is out of action due to a dead clutch I had the standard Diesel Forester. With Chains fitted it did a great job, even with snow deep enough that it was almost snow ploughing.






I think one of these with a proper body lift and low range box would be quite capable. Has anyone heard of issues with the traction control playing up when a lift is fitted? By that I mean cross member spacers as well as strut lift. While the dual range would lose the nice tall gearing of the 6 speed the current first gear is no good for steep hills etc.

Some nice shots. Bet you can't wait for the big thaw !!

Nice mate, I'm pretty jealous!

I love driving my subi in the snow, so I lapped that up while we lived in the alps. I still pine for it!

Cheers

Bennie

i dont know how well a dual range would hold up behind that much torque. you would have to be very careful with the right foot..

awesome pics mate

I suppose the Torque is up there with the Turbo engines. I have only stripped 2nd on a dual range box behind a turbo engine when towing too heavy a load, otherwise they have held up well with sensible driving. Waiting for someone to retro fit a diesel engine into an early Lib, now that would be an interesting combo.

The EE20 has some 350 Nm of torque at 1800-2400rpm, whereas the EZ30D has only 289 Nm at 400rpm. So that's a LOT more torque than anyone has probably ever put through a D/R before and at lower RPMs too. It would be interesting to see how it held up.
Some early diesel Outbacks here in NZ did use the 5-speed S/R though so if that held up a later D/R with the wider 1st and 2nd gears could be ok. Don't know how well the 1.59 gearset out of an L would do though...

Fair points there, it definately likes to pull from 2K revs onwards. Probably better with an auto that has a setup to lock the centre diff.

i have read a few guys say 400Nm is possible with just a tune. Thats HUGE in such a small car.
350Nm is a long was from the 180ish Nm an EJ22 dual range was intended to handle.