Vintage Grumble

Bolt on the world! I CBF making things for this when there's so many bolt on bits to be had, time saved here could be (but likely won't be) spent on reviving my old car 😉

Its fixed! Bens chap changed out the vac pump, and Ben won the battle against the laptop and updated the ECU to the latest firmware, and its now boosting how it should and going MUCH better. VG happy. I must of had a senior moment, and was convinced the new one I drove was getting 5 segments of boost, but Ben took a brand new one from his lot out and it was getting 4 segments, so I had a look online and it turns out that 4 is the correct amount of boost segments for a standard car, which is around 16psi. Ben has also recommended to run a carbon cleaner through it, one you hook up to a vac line and spray in, so if anyone has any recommendations on that, please let me know. Huge thanks to Ben for his help! Now that its running properly, time to start ruining it! I think my first waste of money mod might be an intake. Theres a few available in NZ, but they either look like they will eat a ton of hot air (gets real hot under bonnet, I think due to the cat being right in the front of the motor) or are crazy expensive. HKS does a hot air eater and a super spendy one: One I've found that looks like it should get cooler air, and isn't rapishly expensive is from MST, Thats the current front runner. Regards, V "full boost" G. P.S. my wife keeps referring to me as a swifty, and it's upsetting me.

This boost issue is pretty much the swift equivalent of a 1KZ BHG or warped head

P.S. the battery reset has not changed anything/preformed the miracle I had hoped.

Bro, are you mad, you know what would happen,

I'm 99.99% sure the ECU is limiting the boost based on how it feels and acts. When you hoof it, it builds hard and fast like it should then at about half boosts WHAM it stops it and pulls it back to 2/5ths boosts, It feels very intentional. If the vac pump and firmware update dont work, I'll have to start trying other stuff.

Yeh I'm still not getting full power, might give the battery a disconnect and give that a try, see if it picks up on the octane change. And while I'm here, I may as well do an update: In regards to the hunt for the lost power, I took it to visit Ben/Keltik on Monday, and he plugged it into the scan tool. Its not bringing up any codes currently. We took it for a drive while Ben looked at the live data, and its defo pulling timing and limiting boost. He was unable to get the laptop to get along with one of the Suzuki programs, so the ECU firmware hasn't been updated yet. Ben also let me know the car had an outstanding recall for dodgy vacuum pumps, of which he has complete new units on the shelf, so its going in to have that changed on Friday. One of the symptoms of a dodgy vac pump can be low boost, so I'm really hoping that fixes the issue. I have also changed the spark plugs as they looked to be OG, and should have been changed 25K ago. In other news, I did more research and the jimny rear view mirrors are different on the attachment end, so I cant use the stubby mount I was looking at. I might have to find a nice person to scan/print me one at some point. In other other news, I have ordered my first upgrade part!! Its an insert for the rear gearbox mount, stiffens it up and apparently makes a huge difference to gear shift feel, reduces wheel hop, and somehow makes the handling better according to people on the internet. Regards, VG.

So when I test drove this thing, it seemed a bit down on power, but the ex owner was a very large gentleman, and I sort of assumed the two of us might be slowing the car down a bit during the test, as a few weeks before I had driven a brand new one, and it went HARD. It had also just had a new battery installed so thought maybe that had something to do with it. I took the risk of it being a minor issue as everything else seemed to check out fine, and obviously purchased the car thinking it would be an easy fix. I found the boost gauge screen on the dash and its only letting it boost to around 2 of the 5 segments, and it very much feels like its being limited by the ECU. I text the old owner that night and asked what octane fuel his partner had been running it on, the reply was 91 They have a big ass sticker on the fuel flap saying use only 95 or higher. SO I then assume its the gas causing knocking and the ECU is limiting power due to this, so I drive around all over the place (which even in its low power state is still soooo much fun) to use up all the gas (which took ages due to that economy) and then last night I filled it up with 98, but dang nabbit its still not unlocking fully hektik boosts. I read on line that this is a known issue in the swifts, but luckily I know a truly outstanding gentleman known here as @keltik and he has access to a legit Suzuki scan tool, so tonight we are going to have a gork. There was talk online of firmware updates to fix the issue, but also other people still unable to sort it, so place your bets now on how big of a mistake I've made, lololols.

In my 28 year driving career, the only time I have ever had a flat tyre, was when I blew two tyres on the same pothole, rendering my spare useless anyways. Plus I dont want to weigh down my new race car with a full spare 😉

P.S. these things have no business being as amazing as they are standard, I went out on some local twisty roads last night, and I honestly dont think my 86 on semis could keep up with it. Amazing. But nothing is perfect, the only issue I have found so far, is that as a lanky gentleman, the rearview mirror is mighty low and really obscures vision out the front. BUT I found a place in OZ that makes stumpy mounts for Jimnys, as its also an issue in them, So now I just need to make sure they are the same. My bro in law just purchased a Jimny so will compare with his and order if same same.

Now, plans include, but are not limited too: New down pipe with high flow cat Cat back exhaust Cold air intake Aftermarket intercooler BOV because idiot Lowering springs Wheels/tyres ECU tickle up That should net about 170/180hp, with more talks coming in even earlier, which will be nuts as they are quite rapid standard, handle amazing and have excellent brakes, and only weigh 970kgs. And a screenshot from a video of one I quite like the look of: (minus body kit on the body kit and wing)

I got myself a new daily, one thats a bit more fun and engaging then the current. Its also quite possibly the greatest car ever made. Its so ridiculously fun to drive, it will make blood seep out of your japs eye. As is its zippy as shit, handles better than any other factory car I've even driven, its also actually quite comfortable and is very frugal on gas. An exceptional package (much like myself) that is criminally underated. I fucken love this thing. The vehicle in question is a 2020 Suzuki swift sport, shes a 6 speed manual and powered by the best of the K series engines (not the gay honda one 😉) the mighty K14C. Factory power of about 137hp, super torquey and because turbo, very easy to get a decent whack more power and talks out of with some tasteful bolt on mods. Now, I hear you thinking to yourself "calm down VG, its just a gay little nana car, and just a daily" and you're not wrong, but I'm going to share this journey here with you as I do plan to waste a bunch of money making this little nugget into a masterpiece of "sad old man in a midlyfe crisis trying to return to his youth by building a try hard boy racer spec car". Oh, and the reason for the name growler, my first car (first equal with an LH torana) was a first gen swift, and because I was a teenager I put a fairly loud exhaust on an otherwise std car and it was quite loud and had a growl to it, and my mates named it the growler, with the added dimension that its also a slang name for a vagina and thats humorous. Amyways, enough of that bollocks, I give you The Growler pt2:

You really should have fitted the timing belt before the dyno tune, the massive surge in power its going to give may effect your AFR.