Swift GTi engine advice

[ferris]

I have the opportunity to buy a Swift GTi engine with wiring loom and ecu. Just wanted to know what you guys thought about the idea. I know its suppose to be a great engine, and will definitely make my SJ go faster, but it has very little torque. Could it make my SJ worse off road? I read a comment somewhere online from a guy who has fitted a few of these engines in SJ's and he said "if you have 32" tyres and low gearing, this is NOT the engine for you".

What do you think?

[ScottieJ]

You could always try it and see what you think, then if you don't like it throw the 1.6 back in and ill put it in my Lwb

[Jordi]

Need to get rays dizzy mod or mod the bulkhead to fit it too.

[ferris]

If it was cheap id snap it up and give it ago, but its a bit pricey and i dont want to waste money on it if its not going to be suitable for my setup.

[ferris]

Well after many hours of research iv come to the conclusion its not worth doing with 33" tyres.

Unless i use the GTi head and my 1.6 block, but that would be a little more work and would need the ECU remapping.

Still more to think about .

[ferris]

Well it's happening! A deal has been struck and i'm hopefully picking the engine up on tuesday .

Does anyone know if i will need the fuel tank and pump? or can i use a aftermarket inline pump and keep my SJ tank??

[Darrell]

I would expect it's easiest to use an injected sammy tank/pump/filter but don't really know. Not sure which (if any) fuel lines would need upgrading

[ferris]

Yeah thats's probably the best idea Darrel. I expect there quite hard to get hold of tho. I'll have to keep my eyes peeled for one.

[Anton]

Just wondering - but how far can you bore/stroke a G13? I know they've got a very short deck height, so you certainly can't get a G16 crank to work in them, but more capacity is going to give more torque, right?

Or maybe you could find a G16 16v and bolt a Swift GTI head to that? That should drop right in in place of the 8v, shouldn't it?

[ferris]

Well iv read you can bore it out enough to fit vitara 1.6 pistons in there. Alot of swift owners do this in order to lower the compression ready for a turbo conversion.
The gti head should fit straight on the vit 16v block. Just need to find a cam belt to fit with the extra hight of the vit block. This i what im planning on doing as it should give me a little extra bhp and many more torques.