My suzuki is only getting about 45 MPG......

as found..... with 9700 miles in 2005
http://www.teamswift.net/album_page.php?pic_id=7594


new shoes and fixed the seats  I might do bonnet stripes....
http://www.teamswift.net/album_page.php?pic_id=11968

http://www.teamswift.net/album_page.php?pic_id=11969

http://www.teamswift.net/album_page.php?pic_id=11970

So what does it wanna be when it grows up. 

a mini     

Wow... Ummm... Recaro seats in a metro? What is this all about?

Now... if it really had the Police interceptor engine in it.. That would be something 

The new paint looks just like the old paint... 

You should paint most of it white, but with a yellow circle in the middle of the roof.




Eggmobile! 

I do have to say.. probably looks better than any geo metro I have ever seen 

it's my cheap a$$ hooptie.....fill the tank every 2 weeks or so....

the engine is a zuki!!!!!!
1000 cc
55 squirrel power or so

i'm up to 27k now.....

cost less than one hybrid payment

friend asked me to put a price on it......
I told him no.... I wouldn't take 3 k for it.... i don't know what i would take.....
he said if I would have put 3k on it...it would be his in 30 min.

My Mother actually had a Suzuki Swift when she first moved to her new house so she had something more fuel efficient for the much longer commute than her Navigator . I'll admit to bashing it when i first saw it ... it looked silly next to that big ol' Lincoln in the driveway , and it was far too easy for me and my brother to pick up the front end and move it around to confuse her in the mornings  She told me i'd be suprised at the performance , and that it had the 4 cylinder as opposed to the 3 cylinder that that year Metro had in it . I ended up borrowing it for a couple days while we crammed a Jetta engine into my VW Fox , and much to my suprise it accelerated better than my VW ever did up until about 80mph . I was already used to small fast cars with tight steering , but I never expected it to go as quick as it did . I used it to smoke my brother from a standing start while he was driving his Grand Am . I'm kind of keeping an eye out for one with low miles (the acceleration goes bye-bye after it's been run hard for a couple thousand miles , or when they get over 50k miles on the odometer) to have something to play around with .
It's nice to see someone else appreciate the little buggers too , as well as put some time and effort into making something of it . It's not suprising to find it from someone on these boards though ... i think the GS is way under-appreciated by most people too . Little do they know 

Quote from: werase643 on May 09, 2007, 07:52:15 PM
the engine is a zuki!!!!!!
1000 cc
55 squirrel power or so

The engine block on those is *literally* the size of a loaf of bread.  3 cylinders of fury! 

Reminds me of an internet legend:

the threebanger or the four?

Quote from: yamahonkawazuki on May 09, 2007, 08:23:26 PM
the threebanger or the four?

There's a 4-banger?  Do you need an SCCA license to purchase?

-Turd.

Looks pretty nice. Well you have the skills and willingness to work on a car and make it good, that's worth about $20k at least.

spiffy.  I still want a storm.

i had a 95 ( new body style, choice of engines, a 1Litre 4 cyl or a slightly smaller 3 cyl ( turn teh radio and ac off and i could get 74 mph going downhill on the interstate

It is like the quest for HP...
I want 50 MPG

i've gotten close.....
the new tars are a bit taller but also a bit wider....
keep them at 45psi for trips

driving style.....for max mpg...takes about 45 seconds to get up to speed
I got one of them 1970's fuel economy gauges....VAC GA

it's a rolling experiment like the rest of my life......

1.6L VW diesel.  70MPG no problem in a VW Rabbit.  Maybe a little more in the 'zuki.

Now I have an idea...

The stock Swift weighs in at roughly 700kg after you remove all the interior crap.  A hayabusa will make 180 hp.  That's 8.5 lbs per HP, more or less in line with a '07 vette.

The kids with their Mustangs and Camaros would never figure it out.  The old guys with their vettes would be certain never to race the little blue breadbox again.   

Smart car with a GSXR engine in it:  http://thekneeslider.com/archives/2005/06/08/smart-car-plus-gsxr-equals-smartuki-a-very-smart-car

you could make all these little tuners shaZam! themselves

Quote from: RVertigo on May 10, 2007, 11:23:13 AM
Smart car with a GSXR engine in it:  http://thekneeslider.com/archives/2005/06/08/smart-car-plus-gsxr-equals-smartuki-a-very-smart-car

I LIKE IT!

If I were to build a sleeper car it would be a Citroen 2CV with a turbo Hayabusa engine.  The 2CV was originally powered by a 28HP knockoff of a BMW Motorrad horizontally opposed twin.  Stock weight was 1,100 lbs.  My aunt had one until just a few years ago.  It had "zip up" windows and two big dasies painted on the front doors.