Is your car fixed yet?

 

it sure is!

 

I get it now......

I'm thinking K20 swap anyone else? bahahah

I guess the Busa motor idea is pretty cool too

 

Jason you keep letting me down in life.... First your in car shows, then your stumbling over basic WRC knowledge, and now this statement.... What am i going to do with you.

There is a ton of aftermarket support out there, you just have to know where to look. The Swift is still super popular to rally in Australia so you can get alot of parts from those guys. The car right now is using koni's or celica swift springs. If i ever get to the point where i feel i want to upgrade from there i will go with the 40mm bilstein's that they make for the geo/swift.

The original plan was to buy a VW or a crx in 3 or so years. But the Geo came along after a night of drinking everclear and vodka and i just could not turn down a free first car. It is one of the easiest cars to work on and by far the cheapest platform to campaign

The Geo will also be a great first car for Mike to drive. It teaches you to keep your foot to the floor at all times, witch is going to be a lot of fun once we move to another car with more power. But for the next few years i will be more then content to co-drive for the Geo, Timm's Carola, and if he ever needs me again Phil's Rabbit.

 

LOL, on the road courses I hear how fast Miata's are too. Only one thing to say to that group... just point left and stay right. Sure a carbon body Miata is fast in the corners, but for the REST of the Miatas out there, they're not a carbon body car, and they're not fast. I could understand if it were just to be a logging road beater. (My first car was a diesel rabbit, and believe me, it destroyed the logging roads in Wenatchee!) I'd also bet money that the Turbo Swift chassis are not the same as the Metro, so you'd be essentially needing two cars to make a complete swap just to get near the power levels of, as you said, a VW, or a CRX has from the factory. It just seems that it's a vehicle not meant in any way for that (rallying) use. Getting a cheap car and going for it is cool, don't get me wrong, but getting the wrong car on the cheap always ends up being a nightmare and awalys ends being a much more expensive route.

Along the lines of the Miata, you're correct, I'm not very familiar with the Swift following, because it's never been an interest. When we considered building a rally car, we considered a rabbit because of familiarity, the only reason as matter of fact. Rallying, definately is a different animal. The learning curve is extremely steep for the driver/co-drivers compared to probably any other 4 wheel racing. You definately have to start small and move up.

 

Oh one thing that did not get added to my rant is that there used to be a spec Metro class.

 

Fast at autoX and thats about it...those miata's are moving road blocks imo. They have good handling and usually rarely need to use their brakes but just not enough car for a roadcourse. I could never really campaign a spec miata...too small and not enough power. I hear they are a good platform to learn different driving techniques in though...

On the GTI I had a buddy that bought an old one off a guy about 5yrs ago. Believe it was an 85 or 86 he picked up for about $500. Gutted it and fabbed a cage at work and threw in a 16v motor out of one of the late 80's GTI. That car was actually quite fast and we would rally that thing on the back roads and have some good videos of hang time in that little thing. Fun car, I should see if he still has it.

 

Not only in Aussie...just about anywhere the Swift/Cultus landed they have always been in motorsport and still take part in the lower groups. The newer ones are pretty competitive in FIA JWRC and Groups 4-6 (or equivalent). Honestly not sure how close the base car is to the original so maybe GTisRule's point on the nuances between the two will be right....

I think its good you start off with a car lower down the line and move on up from there. If you decide you really want to sink more money in then so be it...seen too many guys at home go and drop $100-200k or more into Starlets/Peugeot's etc. only to get out of the game once they get bored with it (and at a loss).

So my POV rock on and lets see how it plays out I guess.

 

codgi - I've seen you refer to "home" a couple times in the thread. Are you from Barbados originally (it looks like that is where the car pic came from)?

 

codgi do you know anyone who races a swift/geo? I am having a tough time finding a pad that does not suck. All i have been able to find so far is EBC green stuff pads, and they are less then impressive.

btw i have swift brakes up front, but still have stock geo drums in the rear.

 

http://suzukird1.netfirms.com/62pro/...products_id=66

You dont want drilled rotors though. Drilled = teh sux


btw i dont know what year your things are from, these might not work

 

Born and raised .

 

Will check with some people I know. I know of a circuit car off hand and another rally one I can check through a friend .

 

Thanks!

 

Finally got around to doing a compression test this morning. I have to say it was a bit better then i expected it to be. 80 75 62.

There was grass and dirt half way down the threads on the plugs. Me are not sure what we will be doing to the car this weekend. Ether the outside will get painted or the motor will come out, and go to Gray Grahn to work his magic.