Hi,
I have organised a year off for myself to travel round australia. I have a custom made offroad teardrop camper and am debating getting an engine swap to a 1.6 or 1.8. THe Jimny is a 2009 automatic.
The trip up from Sydney to Brisbane went well with the camper towing nicely however there were some interesting steep spots on the new england highway. A bit more power would make sense.
The car only has 70,000 on the clock. I have been talking to a company on the Gold Coast called one Stop Suzuki shop and they have a 1.6 vitara engine with 80,000 and a liana engine 1.8 with 110,000 and can do the swap for me.
Reliability is my key requirement with any power upgrade.
So my questions are:
For a little bit of extra torque/power to get me up the hills will I see enough of a difference with the 1.6?
Do you see much risk in getting an engine swap done form a reliability perspective.
Is 110,000 too much on the clock to be looking at for the 1.8?
Does having an automatic gearbox mean I should restrict the amount of extra power the engine has (I have read a lot of posts and there seem to be concerns with the auto and the 1.
?The alternative I looked at was a super charger from bullet cars but IT is more money than I really want to spend.
You can check out the rig here:.
http://www.nomadpod.com
Any thoughts and advice gratefully received
I'll do a formal review of the teardrop/pod once I have everything squared away.
Cheers
MAtt