Its been a long time since I actually drove this car, about a year in fact.. I stopped driving it because it started playing up and breaking down a little too often so I decided to leave it for a few weeks then sort it out when I had more patience with it.  However when I left it, it had no anti-freeze in it (can you see where this is going?)  and it got cold enough one night to freeze the water and push out one core plug and crack the head/block.  Woops.

I wanted to install a 1.6 engine from a vitara anyway so why not now!?  Ideally I wanted an 8V engine as it pretty much bolts in and is exactly the same setup as the standard engine so is easy to get running.. I had the 16V version though with multi point fuel injection.  As much as I wanted this to work for me I simply couldn't get my head around all the wiring needed to make it run so I went looking around the interweb for ideas and was directed to Zuwharrie.com where they had been discussing using a set of carburettors from a GSX-R motorbike!  This definitely caught my attention so I did a little more research and ended up on eBay...

And came away with a set of carbs from a GSX-R 750!

So I started stripping the engine down.

and pulled all the injection stuffs off the block.  you can just see the wiring loom behind it, thats about a 3rd of it

Over the next few days I sourced together all the bits and pieces I was going to need to make up a custom intake manifold.

I used a piece of 10mm steel to make the base

And I cut 4 runners out of a old bit of scaffy tube I had lying around as it happened to be exactly the right size!

And welded them all together!

From here I was getting fed up with getting wet and cold working on the truck so I cleared a space in my nan's garage and dragged it down.

However with my suspension lift it didn't fit under the door!  so off came the 35's..

On went the standard ones and I had to let all the pressure out..

So that it just squeezed in!

I cleaned up the engine a little bit and strapped the carbs to the side!

I forgot to get any pics of when I actually installed the engine. I was just too excited to be playing with it again!

The above pic is a bit of a late stage pic, there was quite a lot of work on the distributor before it got to this stage..

 i had to use the dizzy and housing from the original 1.3 because the vit dizzy had no vac advance for the timing and was mounted on the wrong side of the cam.  that means if i was to use just the 413 dizzy in the vit housing it would have spun the wrong way.

starting to get complicated now. lol. starting to think i should have got an 8-v engine.

the yellow arrow is showing the original vitara mounting point.

the red arrow is the 413 mounting point.. All i did to mount it was rotate it around till both top mounts had solid metal behind them and drill and tap new mounts!

you can just see the bolt poking through the head.