In the beginning…there were 軽自動車! (kei-jidōsha, aka “Kei Cars!”)
Well, now. You’ve gone and stumbled upon my little eclectic corner of the Internet. This is the first in what I am hoping is a grand, and ever-growing series of articles, thoughts, and loosely organized tomfoolery related to Kei vehicles. I’m going to be focusing on vehicles equipped with the Subaru EN07, which was a family of 660cc (658cc), 4 cylinder, 4 stroke engines that powered Subaru Kei vehicles. The EN engine family, also known as the “Clover 4,” to set it apart from the other, more common 3 cylinder engines, was introduced in 1989 as the EN05 (547cc), which then grew into the EN07 in 1990 when the Japanese government changed the Kei vehicle rules (our hero, 658cc), and finally as the EN08, (export markets starting about the same time, 758cc).
A shot of the (currently very dirty) EN07C (Carbureted) 658cc Clover 4 on my 1997 Subaru Sambar Super Deluxe Classic pickup. Never mind the shiny thing. You can just file that under “foreshadowing.”
So what’s the deal with all this then? Why should you waste your precious time and bandwidth here? I am going to share everything I do to my EN07C equipped Sambars. Performance. Sounds. Exterior. Interior. Maintenance. Fixing broken crap. There’s a good bit of knowledge out there, but man is it spread far and wide. My aim is to make at least a little island on the Internet where we can jump off from what hopefully becomes a well-organized set of resources.
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