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Please excuse my engine ignorence but it has been hard to find the answers I need. Long and short of it i need a new motor for the Vitara as I just cant justify rebuilding, i know i will get carried away and that is not the point of this build.

I have established that if I use a Baleno motor in a vitara I need to change the cam and instal the angled dizzy mount.

Question is can I just simply bolt my Multipoint inlet and other hardware to the motor or are there other differences?

The motor in question.



Thanks for any help. Benno

The vitara inlet and exhaust manifolds should bolt straight on. As you said you'll need to swap the cam and dizzy from the vit motor too. I dont see why this wouldnt work, you're effectively only changing the block and not any of the sensors/wiring

Yes they all bolt up. but you will have to swop over all the water lines off the back of the water pump as well and swop over all the coolant housings that with the manifolds, dizy and cam then your home free.

Excellent. Will be getting a Baleno import motor for my 93 LWB Vitara.
Newer motor, less kilometres and a damn site cheaper than a Vitara donk.
(mine dropped a big end bearing at a very inconvenient time)
Can anybody tell me if same is true for the coil pack types.
Not sure what the motor will be,
but it claimed by importer to be 95 to 01 Baleno G16B

Yes every thing will bolt up the same but with the coil one you have a crank sperm sensor at the from of the sump that will give you some problems. And you will be doing some fairly involved rewiring. It will also need the correct ecu. All the bolt ons are the same.

The up side is the engines are not as old and in my opinion the coil type engines are a little more responsive and look a little neater in the engine bay

Yes every thing will bolt up the same but with the coil one you have a crank sperm sensor at the from of the sump that will give you some problems. And you will be doing some fairly involved rewiring. It will also need the correct ecu. All the bolt ons are the same.

The up side is the engines are not as old and in my opinion the coil type engines are a little more responsive and look a little neater in the engine bay

V.W.Dave wrote:Yes every thing will bolt up the same but with the coil one you have a crank sperm sensor at the from of the sump that will give you some problems. And you will be doing some fairly involved rewiring. It will also need the correct ecu. All the bolt ons are the same.

The up side is the engines are not as old and in my opinion the coil type engines are a little more responsive and look a little neater in the engine bay

What's a crank sperm sensor?

dare wrote:

V.W.Dave wrote:Yes every thing will bolt up the same but with the coil one you have a crank sperm sensor at the from of the sump that will give you some problems. And you will be doing some fairly involved rewiring. It will also need the correct ecu. All the bolt ons are the same.

The up side is the engines are not as old and in my opinion the coil type engines are a little more responsive and look a little neater in the engine bay

What's a crank sperm sensor?

Crank Angel sensor.

I was thinking about doing the same thing but swapping from the g16a to the baleno engine, I was going to use a donor car so what's involed in doing a swap like this??

TUFFAS wrote:I was thinking about doing the same thing but swapping from the g16a to the baleno engine, I was going to use a donor car so what's involed in doing a swap like this??

It's the same thing g16a is carby and g16b is injected any g16 motor will bolt up its the hardware that bolts on you have to change eg water lines distributor we just rip off our head and bolt that onto the new block lol