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    Engine Of The Day: Suzuki G

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    Image of Mr.choppers - Delenda Carthago Est Mr.choppers - Delenda Carthago Est
    06/28/09

    In reply to Engine Of The Day: Suzuki G
    I am currently trying to restore a Turbo Sprint (G10T baby!), and I tell you, the engine is by FAR the strongest part of the car. No matter how abused, after being parked for five months, starts up on the first turn of the key.


    I wonder if I can buy a G10T-shirt somewhere?

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    Image of zyodei zyodei
    06/28/09

    In reply to Engine Of The Day: Suzuki G
    Both my cars have 3 cyl engines -one a suzuki G, one not. I know, I know, you only wish you could be as cool as me!
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    06/28/09

    @zyodei: PS man, that car with the suzi engine is a hoot :)
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    Image of Mr.choppers - Delenda Carthago Est Mr.choppers - Delenda Carthago Est
    06/28/09

    @zyodei: I envy you... seriously.
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    Image of SeemaHalona SeemaHalona
    06/27/09

    In reply to Engine Of The Day: Suzuki G
    heh, ive got a built 3cyl in my 91 suzuki swift. its got aftermarket everything, and runs over 22psi. has a new 8500rpm rev limiter and a standalone ecu. and makes nearly 4x the stock horsepower.

    its effing sweet. 3cyl ftw!!
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    @SeemaHalona: So it makes about 120 horsepower now right? : )
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    Image of Maxx Cracker Maxx Cracker
    06/27/09

    In reply to Engine Of The Day: Suzuki G
    I made more horsepower cutting my last fart than this three-banger.
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    06/29/09

    @Maxx Cracker: swing and a miss.
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    Image of X3SoB X3SoB
    06/27/09

    In reply to Engine Of The Day: Suzuki G
    Yaknow, if you joined a three cylinder G to a four cylinder G, you'd have a unique powerplant. I'd love to be able to tell people my car was powered by a Straight Seven engine!
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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    06/27/09

    @X5SoB mourns Farrah: You'd be a straight G wit' your straight-G, dawg!
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    Image of engineerd engineerd
    06/27/09

    In reply to Engine Of The Day: Suzuki G
    Suzuki G...for that frugal gangster in your family.


    Seriously, though, what did these produce? Like 50hp? That would be enough for a semi-deadly go kart...

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    Image of wkiernan wkiernan
    06/27/09

    In reply to Engine Of The Day: Suzuki G
    I'll bet that's one of the lightest car engines made in the last three decades. I always thought that a Geo Metro 3-cylinder or a Daihatsu 3-cylinder would make a pretty rockin' engine for a Seven. That's my dream car, probably another dream that will never come true, but who knows?


    The big deal in Sevens these days involves huge high-performance engines that turn it into a death-trap supercar that only skilled race drivers can handle, but the original Seven came with a 40 HP flathead Ford and was intended for amateur car nuts to have fun in.

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    Image of smalleyxb122 smalleyxb122
    06/27/09

    @wkiernan: I have long dreamed of dropping the 1200cc 4 cylinder from a mid-nineties Triumph motorcycle into a Spitfire. 145hp, would move the 1750lb Spitfire pretty well. It would actually be lighter than that after the swap.


    Plus, it would still be all Triumph, sort of.


    Of course, this will have to wait until after my current projects are done.

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    Image of A strolling player A strolling player
    06/27/09

    @wkiernan: Hm, now I'm thinking I'll throw my Prius's existing powertrain into a Seven, somehow, after I install the V8. Torque On Demand, pushing two-thirds of the weight? Hells yeah!
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    06/29/09

    @Don Juan Placencia del Fuego Seat Alhambra Caballero Vega C...:


    Of course you would need to turn the entire engine and transmission sideways so that the halfshafts run fore and aft to two differentials, allowing for Full-Time Hybrid All-Wheel Drive™. The 50-50 torque split might not be the best for handling though.

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    06/27/09

    In reply to Engine Of The Day: Suzuki G
    Is that where the monicker 3G comes from? My iPhone has a Suzuki search engine in it?
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    06/27/09

    @X5SoB mourns Farrah: Well, duh, of course it does. What did you think it stood for?
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    06/27/09

    In reply to Engine Of The Day: Suzuki G
    Barina? Are u sure? Swifts had the G engine and the 1.3L four. Barina only had the 1.3.

    I have drien a 550cc version of the Suzuki Hatch. Not sure if it had the G engine, but it was a 3-cyl, and it was pitiful.
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    06/27/09

    @Naturally Exasperated: More of the same, at a higher price.: should be *driven*. I'm tired.
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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    06/27/09

    @Naturally Exasperated: More of the same, at a higher price.: Since you went there already, "should be *you*".
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    Image of Mr.choppers - Delenda Carthago Est Mr.choppers - Delenda Carthago Est
    06/28/09

    @Naturally Exasperated: More of the same, at a higher price.: The 550cc Suzukis commonly utilized the F5A engine. The G10 was 80% larger, at a whopping 993cc.
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    Image of smalleyxb122 smalleyxb122
    06/27/09

    In reply to Engine Of The Day: Suzuki G
    How many engines can you think of that were available in both three- and four-cylinder form?


    Well, there is one that I can think of off the top of my head. The first generation of John Bloor's Hinckley built Triumph motorcycles had a modular engine design that was available in 900cc (883) 3 cylinder version that was used throughout the model range, and they also offered a 4 cylinder that they used in the Trophy 1200, and Daytona 1200 models.

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    Image of skitter skitter
    06/27/09

    In reply to Engine Of The Day: Suzuki G
    I had a buddy whose Civic came with a four cylinder, but was later available only as a three cylinder. And my parents had a V8 Cutlass that only worked as a six cylinder. All this was about the same time as the V8-6-4, but they never achieved equal notoriety.
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    Image of CaveTroll CaveTroll
    06/27/09

    @skitter: When my dad was younger and still had his '69 440 powered Charger, his grandfather told him that he would probably get better fuel mileage if here were to disconnect a bank of cylinders. That's not quite the point of having a 440 Charger, thought my dad.
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    06/27/09

    @CaveTroll: I was actually just reading up on cylinder deactivation, and had a 'duh' moment. Perhaps counter-intuitively, all valves are left closed. Et voila: no pumping losses. Sure, there's compression, but the air acts as a spring and you get the energy back. Meaning, also counter-intuitively, that a Jake brake doesn't just hold the valves closed, but releases compression at the beginning of the power stroke. This also means that, the oiling is beefy enough, the mechanisms are already in place to have a Jake brake on, say, a Honda Accord Hybrid.
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    06/27/09

    @skitter: WOOGAWOOGAWOOGAWOOGAWOOGA


    "What's that?"


    "That's the neighbor lady coming down the hill."

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    06/27/09

    @skitter: Good thinkin', but on a hybrid, you actually want to use the brakes, if they have any regenerative abilities.
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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    06/27/09

    @diesel W123's don't die: Unless you're driving down a nice canyon road, shitty tires screeching in protest and numb electric-assisted steering offering zero feedback, and the brakes are attempting to overheat.


    Yeah, that never happens with hybrids.

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    Image of A strolling player A strolling player
    06/27/09

    @diesel W123's don't die: "Regenerative braking" doesn't actually use the brakes at all -- the friction from the electric motor (operating backwards, as a generator) is enough to slow the car quite a lot, and after that point the standard brakes kick in. This is why you'll see Priuses on the same brake pads for 100,000 miles.
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    06/27/09

    @FP - tittin' and shittin' with Tomsk: ^^Never.
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    06/27/09

    @skitter: Except maybe Sketchy's.
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    Image of A strolling player A strolling player
    06/27/09

    @FP - tittin' and shittin' with Tomsk: Hey, I've had my fair share of fun with southwestern Virginia's mountain roads! Stability control may have saved my ass more times than I care to admit. I only went four off once!
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    06/27/09

    @Don Juan Placencia del Fuego Seat Alhambra Caballero Vega C...: It goes without saying that you were doing real good until you went RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRT and went four off.
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    Image of A strolling player A strolling player
    06/27/09

    @skitter: I'm going to write that all over my car next time I go to Blacksburg.
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    Image of Captain Liverspots Captain Liverspots
    06/27/09

    @Don Juan Placencia del Fuego Seat Alhambra Caballero Vega C...:


    Only once? Where's the fun in that?


    One of the backroads that parallels I-81 near Christiansburg used to be very good for near-death experiences. One curve in particular, if taken at more than the suggested speed limit, had a nasty habit of leaving the Gutless Calais facing the wrong direction in the middle of the road.


    Now I'm getting all nostalgic for my then-roomate's E28. *sniff*

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    Image of A strolling player A strolling player
    06/27/09

    @Kapitän Lebertransplantation: After I was chased at high speed by a Ram 1500 for a solid 20 miles down a road that almost positively intersects that which you have just described, I avoided the back roads for a couple months, and then I ended up leaving the area. Hopefully next time I'm there I'll have a Corvette or at least an IS300...
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    06/27/09

    @Don Juan Placencia del Fuego Seat Alhambra Caballero Vega C...:


    Ah, being chased by local rednecks...all part of the SW VA experience. The roommate and I, whilst breaking in his new '96 Integra, were briefly harassed on those same backroads by a trio of aggro rednecks...in a Cadillac Cimarron.


    You really can't make this shit up.

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    Image of Novaload Novaload
    06/27/09

    @CaveTroll: So Gramps ended up in a Home after that? And rightly so.
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    06/27/09

    @Kapitän Lebertransplantation: I have many kinfolk from thereabouts. They probably just wanted to know if you had any meth. Or Oxy.
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    06/27/09

    In reply to Engine Of The Day: Suzuki G
    It's pretty thin, I wonder how many you could fit side to side under the hood of a 60s caddy.


    Any takers? I'll chip in the $80 I have left for beer and the eventual hospital bill.

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    Image of Serious Mopar Jones- Incurable Serious Mopar Jones- Incurable
    06/27/09

    @darkstar: Not enough to actually move a '60s Caddy, I bet.. Now, a 502 in a Chevy Sprint....
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    06/27/09

    @Serious Mopar Jones- Incurable:Well four of them connected together would give you a nice tri-turbo twelve cylinder. So that would enough to make it go
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    06/29/09

    @fodder650: Would that be a straight-twelve?
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    06/27/09

    In reply to Engine Of The Day: Suzuki G
    There's a guy here in town who scavenges the junkyard for Geo Metro engines (that's this one, right?) for installation in glorified hanggliders.. he made the local news last summer when he (prophetically?) nosedived into the lake.
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    03/13/09

    In reply to Priceless Cache Of Thirty Vintage Cars Found In Rural UK Town
    I'll take the Daimler Majestic please, especially if it it still has the little V8.


    By English countryside standards, this is quite a tidy garden.

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    03/13/09

    In reply to Priceless Cache Of Thirty Vintage Cars Found In Rural UK Town
    The Austins are pretty boring, but the Rileys are quite valuable. That Lynx tourer is very cool. Never heard of a Swift...the Willy Overland is also cool but so little of it left it's pretty much parts.
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