Your power band doesn't kick in until 2500 and peak torque arrives at around 4k rpm.

 

@donkpow,
Thanks. Do I treat it differently than a corolla or civic, and give it more rpms before letting the clutch out? That just doesn't feel right. It's completely different than my 4cyl non turbo and turbo, and my TJ jeep. None of them stutter like this.

 

Hesitation and stutter make me wonder if it is running right.

That said, a 2007 Forester NA is something like 9.7 seconds zero to sixty. Have you given it the beans and timed it?

 

Hesitation and stutter make me wonder if it is running right.

That said, a 2007 Forester NA is something like 9.7 seconds zero to sixty. Have you given it the beans and timed it?

Hah! Not yet, but I will tomorrow. Good advice. At least I can baseline it then. Thanks.

 

@LightlyDim As an ex-honda Civic 1992 owner, auto. I consider my 2001 Forester auto to be substantially more powerful. Powerful enough to pull a 3300lb trailer. But like mentioned above the engine is a big bore, short stroke engine. Similar to the Honda Civic. However, note that this is a very heavy vehicle. And the AWD system hides this power. I on purpose plugged in my FWD fuse and drove it around, WOW. It felt like a rocket off the line. Pull the FWD fuse and it's drives like a regular Subaru. I have to wonder if you're used to driving FWD vehicles or non-AWD vehicles.

 

You didn't give an indication of fault in your original post.

The Subaru engine is a "short stroke" or "oversquare" type engine. I don't know about your other cars. If you can't find the torque curve on them, check out the bore and stroke numbers. I imagine the Jeep has an undersquare engine. I have no idea what Honda does. I remember a fellow wanted to increase low end torque on his beach going Subaru by opening up the exhaust. The limiting factor is not something like an exhaust restriction, it's in the inherent design of the engine.

I'm not recommending that you drop the clutch but I will say go ahead and bring your engine up to 2500 rpm for shifts. You'll feel the difference. I'd have to look at your gear ratios to give a better answer. Another fellow was dissatisfied and confused with the lack of power in his automatic transmission equipped car. All I can say is wind it up, that's the way it's made.

I consider this to be the most gutless car I have ever owned.

I agree that it feels gutless, but I don't really speed around in this car. I think my expectations were that it would have some torque when I'm at a stop and on flat ground so that I didn't need to put on the gas as hard as I did in my previous subaru (2004) and other manuals. I find it feels on the brink of stalling unless I give it a good 1200-1500 rpm from a standstill in first. I'm wondering if I'm just being a wuss and need to drive it more aggressively. I'm happy with the power for what it is in all of the other gears though. Thanks for the response.

@LightlyDim As an ex-honda Civic 1992 owner, auto. I consider my 2001 Forester auto to be substantially more powerful. Powerful enough to pull a 3300lb trailer. But like mentioned above the engine is a big bore, short stroke engine. Similar to the Honda Civic. However, note that this is a very heavy vehicle. And the AWD system hides this power. I on purpose plugged in my FWD fuse and drove it around, WOW. It felt like a rocket off the line. Pull the FWD fuse and it's drives like a regular Subaru. I have to wonder if you're used to driving FWD vehicles or non-AWD vehicles.

Can you help me out with a link or tutorial for pulling the FWD fuse? I'm used to driving a RWD 333hp automatic Genesis and a RWD automatic Frontier mostly. And thanks for the feedback. This forum has been very helpful.

 

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Can you help me out with a link or tutorial for pulling the FWD fuse? I'm used to driving a RWD 333hp automatic Genesis and a RWD automatic Frontier mostly. And thanks for the feedback. This forum has been very helpful.

You have the MT - Manual Transmission, this FWD fuse does NOT exist in the MT. Only the AT-Automatic Transmission.

 

I don't believe you can pull a fuse and force the manual Forester into FWD only. You can never drive it in RWD or FWD.
It's AWD all the time.
It's a short stroking motor and you should be shifting around 4,000 RPM.

 

Thanks. I understood that the automatic will distribute based upon situations, but the manual was all time awd. I thought the other person was saying that I could do that with the manual, but obviously I misunderstood. Thanks!

 

Mine takes a couple of days.