These aren't exactly the sorts of things that get the geeks fired up, but it does help demystify Subaru's late success; while we spend all of our time arguing about the merits of
unequal length headers on boxer engines, people who just want a drama - free, all - wheel -
drive sedan for comfortably under $ 30K are
driving home in Legacys.
For 1988, the turbocharged version of the Sundance / Shadow used an equal
length drive shaft system; the
unequal length system used on standard cars had a short, solid
drive interconnecting shaft on the left side with a longer tubular
drive shaft on the right.