TeamSwift

Hi there not too sure if this is the right place to put this but I have found alot of useful information on this forum and thought that you might like to see what I have been doing with it. In Australia and a couple of other places we get a little utility vehicle called a Mighty Boy. I paid $500 for mine and it was in pretty good condition with 219,000 km on it and a very worn out 550cc engine. This is what it looked like when I bought it.

I got a grill for it and put on a set of rims that I had lying around from my AE86 Sprinter. They are a little on the large side but they look the part

OK so the old engine was buggered and after doing a lot of research I found out that the G10A would fit in the Mighty Boy. I did some looking around and found a swift with the right engine at an auction. This is what a $150 swift from the auctions looks like. It is the G10A with 5 speed, power steering and Air con. This thing is pretty smick. It has 134,000km on the clock and the engine is really clean. I have taken it for a strap and it goes pretty well so the MB should get along ok. The long term plan is to fit a cam and fuel injection. I will drop the Adaptronic of the Sprinter as it is only $100 for a new loom and I am never going to drive both at once. Will be interesting to see what it can do.

Cheers
Paul

Mighty Boy engine bay


Swift engine bay


Mightboy Strut and drive shaft (Passenger side)

So the next challange was to try and get the swift suspension and drive shafts to mount up to the Mighty Boy so that I could run the bigger brakes and stuff. Not the easiest thing in the world but made much easier for the fact that a lot of the suzuki stuff is interchangeable.

Wow just realized that I haven't updated this for ages. Since we spoke last I have done the following:

Flared the front and rear wheel arches to take the 165/55/14 tyres

Fitted GTI front suspension including Suzisport struts and King springs

Complete strip and respray

Engine has been in and running but is coming out again for a new timing belt and to finish of the extractors that I have made for it. They are 1.5" primary with a 30" primary to the first collector. This should be a pretty good match to the 3Tech 222 cam that I have sitting here and a 10+ sprocket.

The plan is to dyno the thing through each stage to get an idea on what sort of difference to power it is all making. It might be a little embarrassing but at least it will put the info out there.

I have also just bought a set of ITB from a Daytona 675 that I am going to try and fit up.

Hope you like the photos.

Bye for now.....

Since the Mighty Boy and your donor car are both made by Suzuki, did you have to modify the transmission linkage?

Beautiful project car. I'll bet you get a lot of compliments.

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Once you get the cars dialed-in (compression, leaks, bearings, alignment, brakes) swap in new rubber and glass, you've got something which should last for years!

It was very simple with the gear linkage as they looked exactly the same it was just the swift one was a little longer so I had to trim the length down some and it was good to go. Happy to take a couple of photos of you are interested.

Thanks for the kind words.

thanks for the pics of your mightyboy. i drift over the team mightyboy and look over what is there. i would enjoy one of those but getting parts for it over here in the states would really be rough.

i also enjoyed a few posts there on the fronte as well. you have some interesting vehicles down there.

i'm still laughing over the pics of the Tata that's posted there


Keep posting

Flea

Very cool!! Would love to have something like that!!

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1993 GEO METRO 1.0 lsi (xfi swap)
1995 Eddie Bauer Exploder
1983 CHEVY C-10--the gas guzzler
1997 VW GTI VR6 Turbo--dead as a door nail
1994 GEO METRO 1.0 xfi (retired and parted out)
1989 Suzuki Swift GTi (sold)

Ok I haven't update for a while but the car was on the dyno this morning so I though that I would pop up the dyno sheet.

The engine now has:
3 tech 10 degree cam wheel
3 tech 222 cam, and
Extractors with 1.5" primary into 2" collector with a length of around 25" from valve to collector.

I didn't manage to get a run with the standard engine so I realise it is pretty hard to compare, also these engines in Australia run a carby so are down on power compared to your ones.

This was really a base line run to see how much extra the ITB's that I am fitting will make.

Cheers
Paul

Great work! Gotta love a 86 with no rust! Not so in the Minnesota USA rust belt. That G10 is carbed? Interesting........... Congrats on a great project!

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