Rebuilding Greg's Sierra
Posted: Fri May 09, 2003 1:25 pm
Hi All,
Since there don't seem to be too many projects going on in the Suzuki Forum at the moment i thought i would keep you all up to date with what is going on with my little car.
Basically the scenerio is that two things have occured:
1. My little 1.3 engine is starting to die, its producing a lot of smoke and is chewing through oil.
2. My driving style and what i want to achieve when driving has changed. I'm no longer thinking about how to get up a track the easy way, now i want to have a crack at driving the hard way and acknowledge that there is a chance that i won't make it.
So, what these issues have required is a little rebuild of the car.
First up was the motor, it had to have Fuel injection because i am always flooding the carby with the car on big leans, so the obvious choice for the driving i like doing was the vitara 1.6 EFI engine, but as anyone that has tried to find one of these engines will tell you, they tend to be as rare as hens teeth and plenty costly.
Another suggestion that was generated out of the suzuki club was the little engine out of a Suzuki Cappuccino (a car that i had never heard of)... This is as much a novelty choice as anything else as it is only 660cc's and 3 cylindars with a groovy turbo sneeze idea
. This has become the motor of choice and i have recently shipped a front cut from a Japanese Import Cap in the past few days.
The second issue was how to set up the car so that it could cope with my poor attempts at driving the un-drivable. The obvious choice for this was to reduce the number of panels on the car, and increase the strength of the passenger area. This lead to the soucing of a soft top body, and will lead to the installation of a 6 point roll cage.
So basically the whole process will include the following tasks:
1. engine swap (1.3 sierra to 660cc cap)
2. body swap (hard top to soft top)
3. gearing upgrade (5.12 diff gears)
4. roll cage and bull bar (new cage, get rid of arb bar to reduce weight)
So, that's the briefing on the project. I'll try to keep you all up-to-date on how it is travelling with the inclusion of a few pics etc.
I look foward to your comments / feedback.
Cheers,
Greg
Since there don't seem to be too many projects going on in the Suzuki Forum at the moment i thought i would keep you all up to date with what is going on with my little car.
Basically the scenerio is that two things have occured:
1. My little 1.3 engine is starting to die, its producing a lot of smoke and is chewing through oil.
2. My driving style and what i want to achieve when driving has changed. I'm no longer thinking about how to get up a track the easy way, now i want to have a crack at driving the hard way and acknowledge that there is a chance that i won't make it.
So, what these issues have required is a little rebuild of the car.
First up was the motor, it had to have Fuel injection because i am always flooding the carby with the car on big leans, so the obvious choice for the driving i like doing was the vitara 1.6 EFI engine, but as anyone that has tried to find one of these engines will tell you, they tend to be as rare as hens teeth and plenty costly.
Another suggestion that was generated out of the suzuki club was the little engine out of a Suzuki Cappuccino (a car that i had never heard of)... This is as much a novelty choice as anything else as it is only 660cc's and 3 cylindars with a groovy turbo sneeze idea
. This has become the motor of choice and i have recently shipped a front cut from a Japanese Import Cap in the past few days.
The second issue was how to set up the car so that it could cope with my poor attempts at driving the un-drivable. The obvious choice for this was to reduce the number of panels on the car, and increase the strength of the passenger area. This lead to the soucing of a soft top body, and will lead to the installation of a 6 point roll cage.
So basically the whole process will include the following tasks:
1. engine swap (1.3 sierra to 660cc cap)
2. body swap (hard top to soft top)
3. gearing upgrade (5.12 diff gears)
4. roll cage and bull bar (new cage, get rid of arb bar to reduce weight)
So, that's the briefing on the project. I'll try to keep you all up-to-date on how it is travelling with the inclusion of a few pics etc.
I look foward to your comments / feedback.
Cheers,
Greg
I suppose I need to use my age and cunning, :evil: to keep up in da bush, christover. 
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