Ls1 Vitara

[[RX3]]

put a 1uz-fe in it, get it engineered, then put the ls1 back in and replace its engine number with the 1uz one

[cracka]

put a 1uz-fe in it, get it engineered, then put the ls1 back in and replace its engine number with the 1uz one

not dumb. My plan for mates kinga is to grind vh41 number off and put it on a vh45 when his engine inevitably blows because usdm shitness.

[vet 180]

not dumb. My plan for mates kinga is to grind vh41 number off and put it on a vh45 when his engine inevitably blows because usdm shitness.

Just because your mate did it doesn't mean it's not dumb!

[vet 180]

Both can put one in a 1994 swb. The magic number for LS1 is 1140kg.

Ok this is where I am confused. Can't you just use the weight from a 1992 lwb vit?

The whole 1994 argument doesn't make a lot of sense to me as the car you are referring to with the extra weight is a completely different chassis number, wider body, different axles, different engine different brakes etc. chucks body shape is a se416 and the other body is an SV from memory. The 6cl is the SV620 and the 4 cyl has a different series of engine and is the SV420 even the body panels are different, it's a completely different model? So It's like comparing a vp to a vr?

[[RX3]]

not dumb. My plan for mates kinga is to grind vh41 number off and put it on a vh45 when his engine inevitably blows because usdm shitness.

check his wideband while you're at it

[ALLMTR]

Wahoo, it runs!

[chartreusehj]

get a permit and take it for a drive :D

[ALLMTR]

It's still registered til November

[Jim]

You mean all this time and it was a non issue lol

[chartreusehj]

How does it drive Chuck?

[fly510]

Surely it'd skid at least 1 with an LS?

[briney]

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[fat910]

Just in time to drive it to the scrap yard?

[Captain Kermit]

Just in time to sell to someone who couldn't give a shit about whether it's legit?

[jzx83]

So I'm not clear whether Chuck's Vitara is in or out of the race for rego. Is it the later or earlier model?

Come to that, if the only significant change to the car was the difference in the capacity of the newer engine, could the older cars be considered effectively the same thing as the newer ones, or is proving that one of those things that breaks CA18Escort?

So I re read the thread and saw that the car was a 1989, but I am still interested to get an answer to the other question I had about whether a car that was otherwise unchanged but had a different engine and heavier weight in a later version, could be considered 'the same' car for modification purposes.

ie you have a brandex model 1.0 from 1989, for which the heaviest car sold was 1040kg. brandex later realised it was too gutless and released a new version on 1994 on substantially the same platform, which weighed 1140kg. The only difference apart from minor cosmetic changes, was that they added a couple of welded in braces at each end of the car, and put slightly firmer shocks in it with different springs. And a heavier engine. So reading between the lines it sounds like the differences with the Vitara are larger than this, but in principle, how much of this sort of thing would a prudent engineer be prepared to work with, having regard to not losing his house etc etc?

Ps Chuck, your target market is someone with a 94 on Vitara who can transfer the work done on the mule to their car, and then register that car. Unless they really are radically different.