Hi guys,

Have just joined auszookers but have been perusing this site for the past few months, good stuff What I have acquired in the last year has been my sister's old 93 Suzuki Vitara SWB (softop) with the G16A engine. Has been a great little car and super fun when taking offroad, though have only really taken it on the beach and dunes up around Lancelin and just south of Yanchep (Alkimos area). The only real problem I've had with it was it not going into 4wd, which I later found out to be due to the front locking hubs being seized up (took them out, cleaned, repacked and all good from then on).

Soo have had problems with the car recently being hard to start while hot, so decided to buy a carbie rebuild kit and attempt to rebuild the carb. Pretty much disassembled it all fine and cleaned everything (carb cleaner, compressed air, etc) but then got stuck reassembling it as I obviously didn't take enough photos and probably over estimated my mechanical-minded abiltiy. Have just taken the carb in to Perth Carb. Specialists (Osb. park) and have been quoted a max of about $750 to put it all back together with a full cleanout/rebuild which will leave it looking like brand new (one of my vacuum diaphragms is also shot). All in all seems like a sh*t load of money for a car thats probs only worth about $1500 at the moment.

So I have heard about doing an G16B EFI conversion to a G16A, like using the G16B head and throttle body on the G16A block, and was just wondering whether I should consider this instead of getting the carb re hauled if it is not too much more expensive then the re haul. Do the gains in doing the conversion outweigh the costs and work involved?

I wouldn't mind keeping the car for a while and slowly mod'ing it up.

Anyways any of your thoughts/ideas would be of great help!

Cheers!!!