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It may come as a surprise to learn that Subaru and parent company Fuji Heavy Industries, can trace its roots back to the obscurely named "Aircraft Research Laboratory" founded by Chikuhei Nakijima in 1917. Previous to this, while enrolled at the Japanese naval academy, and at age 19, Nakijima became captivated by the notion of human flight, and the romance associated with taking to the skies on hearing of the Wright brother's first successful powered flight. This quickly led to Nakijima working on the production of aircraft for the Japanese navy. Ultimately less than satisfied with simply building aircraft, Nakijima became more and more absorbed in the development aspects of aircraft, culminating in leaving the Naval academy to found the aforementioned Aircraft Research Laboratory.

Very quickly this new company was renamed as the Nakijima Aircraft Co. Ltd., rapidly becoming one of Japan's leading aircraft design and manufacturing companies in the ensuing years leading up to, and including the period during World War II. Following the defeat of Japan in 1945, and the total collapse of the domestic aircraft industry, Nakijima Aircraft was renamed Fuji Sangyo Co. Ltd., and began the task of adapting design and production techniques learned from aircraft production into the manufacture of motor scooters and bus body building.

Reacting to the demand for cheap personal transport, in June 1946 Fuji Sangyo, after studying for six months a Powell Streamliner scooter (as used by American service personnel of the time) produced their own interpretation of this existing design. Called the Fuji Rabbit, it proved to be an instant success with the local population who appreciated its step-through design, low centre of gravity and satisfactory performance. Propulsion was by a 1.5kW 135cc air-cooled engine and made use of surplus wartime tail-wheels from military aircraft! It is also interesting to note that the Rabbit made it to the market a full six months prior to the very first Vespa scooter.

Changes to prevailing corporate law in 1950 forced Fuji Sangyo to separate into a further twelve autonomous companies. In 1953 Fuji Heavy Industries (FHI) was formed as an aircraft manufacturing, maintenance and sales company through the combined investment of five of the original companies formed from the break-up of Fuji Sangyo. Two years later these five investors merged with the newly created FHI, beginning the modern era of FHI's business activities as we know today.

Early in 1954 the prototype of FHI's very first passenger car was produced, known creatively as the P-1. Then president of FHI Kenji Kita, made it a priority to come up with a dedicated name for the fledgling car making division of FHI, by conducting an inter-company poll.

Ultimately unsatisfied with the suggestions made, Kita chose instead to use a name dear to his own heart, and that of the Japanese people. For both the Chinese and Japanese, the cluster of six visible stars known as Pleiades in the west, is known by the name Subaru.

For the Japanese, literally translated, Subaru means "to gather together or to govern" and is sometimes translated as meaning "unity". It is interesting to note that FHI was created out of the merger of six different companies, demonstrating what an evocative name Subaru is for the Japanese.

The P-1 became the Subaru 1500, which ultimately failed to be a sales success for FHI for a variety of reasons, but in 1958 Subaru hit on the right mini-car formula for the masses with the Subaru 360. The 360 was a small four-seat car and went on to sell successfully for eleven years.

The rest, is as they say, history!

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Improving engine power through mechanical upgrades such as free-flowing exhausts, intakes, turbochargers and intercoolers will boost the amount of airflow into the engine over stock. Any increase in airflow is immediately picked up by the air mass sensor. This causes the following things to occur:

Increased load forces the ECU to operate in areas of the fuel and ignition maps that it was not calibrated for, resulting in fuel mixtures that are too rich, eating up some of the power gains made by fitting the parts in the first place.Reductions in exhaust back pressure enables more ignition advance to be safely run in the mid range than the active ignition control system is programmed to allow, thus compromising peak potential power.Outside of the range of active timing control the ECU is effectively deaf and is programmed with a safe set of ignition timing values. These safe ignition values are for an unmodified engine.

At high RPM and loads ignition timing needs to be retarded, especially after 6,000 RPM, or the engine can start to detonate.Normally as engine load and RPM increases, both fuel and ignition mapping changes progressively in reaction to this. After modifications, very quickly the ECU can reach the end of its scaling so that in essence fuel and timing becomes fixed at the last set values.

 This leads to driveability and reliability issues.The OE boost control is calibrated to suit a known set of exhaust and intake dynamics. More efficient parts can throw the boost control system to far out of sync for its closed loop boost control system to compensate for. Wild boost fluctuations, over boosting or even under boosting are all possible consequences.Products that modify the way in which the engine management system works, in order to address the above issues are broken up into four broad groupings.

They include re-flashing the OE ECU; fitting an interceptor type add-on controller; complete replacement ECU replacements; and finally plug-in chip upgrades. All of these upgrades have their place in the grand scheme of tuning things, each with their own pros and cons.

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