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Haha thought I would be nice, but your definitely a dirt bike rider at heart still.

I have seen some disk brake conversion kits but they are expensive and I believe unnecessary unless you are wanted to tow something heavy or something like that and as for the suspension the front in independent and the rear is a solid axle.

Yes their you go, just note that you will have to modify the radiator shroud to fit and modify the power steering fluid bottle bracket. www.ebay.com.au/itm/196573183443?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=705-154756-20017-0&ssspo=zerxr0qpt2w&sssrc=4429486&ssuid=fdql7lvqqau&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY

So all of the CV shafts and standard Suzuki parts are just from car wrecking yards second hand and the air lockers and air compressor are from Alibaba (contacted a seller/importer who had the right air lockers in stock, part numbers can be found in the video, if buying from alibaba be careful of scams) you can also buy the air lockers from TRE4x4 or ARB.

Yeah, so my vitara has a 2 inch extra articulation suspension lift (2inch springs with 3inch longer shocks), 2inch body lift to create clearance for larger tyres and in this video I have 30inch tyres (lifts the car differentials 1.5 inches higher off the ground than stock) I have now fitted 31 inches higher off tyres.

Nice work mate, keep it up

Yeah I worked out the only reason I have a clearance issue with my rear wheel is due to my bumper sitting slightly high at the rear

Yeah I’m about to get some 245/75/16 for my road tyres I think

Nice, what brand of tyres did you get?

The standard set up in the grand Vitara’s has the front cv shafts constantly spinning even when in 2wd and when the car is put into 4wd the cv shafts are engaged in the front diff. This system works and operates fine however the constant spinning of the cv shafts can cause a few problems. 1. You can wear out your cv shafts a bit faster. 2. There are bearing inside your front differential that are constantly spinning causing wear. 3. The spinning cv shafts and parts of the front differential that are spinning cause more drag in your drive line causing reduced fuel efficiency. And when modifying your front differential to fit air lockers the free wheeling hubs must be fitted as your basically fit the front differential out of the 90’s model vitara and they require free wheeling hubs.

wow, those are some pretty big tyres for a grand vitara. I love it haha

Did you go with alteredego suspension, or something else? I'm on the fence on whether or not I want to go with them, they are definitely pricey. The four and a half inch lift seems like a bit much, and I was considering the 3-in kit although it doesn't look quite as nice. Possibly throw a one inch body lift with the 3-in suspension lift to give me some room between the frame and body for some other ideas I have.

@@S-ed7zu no its a 4xfourart suspension they are from turkey

The atoto radio just fit straight in the standard hole, no cutting was required I just had to unbolt the standard radio and the clock and little shelf

Ah sweet thanks mate actually already got it sorted haha bought an eonon one that fit perfect. Now I'm up to a snorkel haha, I can't seem to find any that aren't like 250 total from the UK and was wondering if you know any way to get em cheaper here. Also you mentioned you had to do a bit of a custom fit with some pipe from Bunnings as the stock pipe from the kit was a bit arse. Was wondering if you could just give some more insight for me mate thanks!

@@sirpiecat5070 ahhh nice good to hear. yeah the snorkel is a bit of a pain, I’m building another vitara up to do a full build series (currently just gathering parts) and I can seem to find a snorkel cheap either. The one on my car at the moment was like 90 dollars off of eBay but it appears to be gone now. I’ll have a bit more of a look for you though. The Bunnings pipe was just a pvc 90 degree bend the fit over the factory airbox inlet just before the air filter (Screwed and siliconed the 90 degree bend on) just so the flexible tube from the snorkel made a better seal.

@@BrooksiesBackyard Ah yeah that seems like a good way to do it. Keen to see the other Vitara build, when you reckon you'll upload some videos on that build?

Looks like you can get a snorkel from AliExpress for 200 bucks aud delivered or on alibaba there are some sellers selling snorkels for our cars but it’s more of a bulk buying market place however you may be able to negotiate with the seller to just sell you one.

Cheers, thanks mate

Well I have always wanted to go all red but I have wanted the option to go back so I have just managed to get a second set of the bumpers and door bumpers which I will paint red and then have the option to change back to the original colour scheme. But thank you for the suggestion.

The chain was just bought off of eBay, but you can buy them from AliExpress as well.

Haha yeah I am so surprised but it doesn’t show any signs of giving up so I’m just going to keep riding till it does and see how many kms I can put on it

I found you can get a lot of engine parts off of AliExpress if you search for Honda nx250 as it has the same engine

@@BrooksiesBackyard nice

Gracias por la información ​@@BrooksiesBackyard

I purchased them from a seller on alibaba and they were delivered in 5 days from china to Australia. Quite pleased with my experience.

To be honest they are Chinese lockers I ordered through alibaba, I would post the link of the seller I bought from but they have changed their name or no longer exists so I can’t give you the exact link. But just go on there and find some sellers who sell lockers for Suzukis and see who will give you the best price. Just be wary of ones branded as HF lockers as I have heard negative reviews about them.

Thanks, appreciate it

Thanks mate, I appreciate the feedback. Keep on building yours

Nice, it is definitely the best modification you can do to the car

Yeah definitely, there is so much you can do to these to make them into an unstoppable 4x4

When you say 4wd light solution are you talking about putting it in 4wd and having the light flash on and off?

Yeah mate, replaced all of the shocks, if you keep standard shock front and rear the car will be taller but you will gain no extra off-road ability

The shocks came with my 2inch lift kit from zook off road Australia, black raptor brand

Thank you for the info! I just looked it up on Zook...I thought this had a leveling kit/spacers. So, only new shocks and springs for the lift? I didn't see any specs on the site, but those front struts look the same length as the stock ones. How much longer are they?

@@1ring2rule3pigs I have the 2 inch extra articulation kit and can’t say exactly how much longer they where but definitely longer than standard, when flexing I max out on my sway bar when connected and when the sway bar is disconnected the cv shaft maxes out so definitely longer than standard

@@BrooksiesBackyard Awesome. Thanks for your time! 👍

It’s awful, 15 mpg on a good day. That being said my vitara is nearing 200,000 miles, great vehicle

Sorry for the late reply, on the highway with 255/70r16 on with 5.12 ratio diff gears I get around 10.5L/100kms which I think is pretty good.

@@BrooksiesBackyard what rpm’s are you hitting on the highway ? Let’s say at 60 mph stock im around 3,000 which I feel is high

@@jeanfrarugama3423 I sit on 3000 rpm at 60mph/100kmh but that is with 5.12 diff gears and 30inch tyres on

Yeah, so the best way I found to fit the front springs is to loosen the lower control arm bolds so the control arm will swing freely then hold your spring up on the top spring seat and swing the control arm back up then and get the bottom on the spring to go where it needs to on the lower control arm and then put a jack under the lower control arm and jack it up to compress the spring the install your shock to hold the control arm up so the spring doesn’t drop out. Hope this helps

@@BrooksiesBackyard Thanks for the tip, really appreciate it. We ended lifting the whole front of the car, because at first we only lifted one side. Then we unscrewed the control arm only at the front and also sway bar. That gave us couple of more centimeters to work with and it didn't seem impossible like before. Again, thanks for the help :)

They are 255/70r16 so around the 30-30.5 mark depending on the tred depth of the tyre

Awesome, looking to get a bit more of a body lift for my Grand Vitara

@@matthewstark3463 to fit anything over 29s you will need to put on extended bump stops or in a body lift but sounds like you know that already

Well right now it is still working great, and you can set the height of the shock so you have have it higher or lower than standard however the rear linkage design of the bike limits the amount of height increase you can have.

Nice, have fun with it, great little cars.

I would man, I love mine haha, just finished a top end rebuild and cams on mine to give it a little more power

Yeah definitely man, any questions just pop them down below. Mine has just clocked over 90000 so I am about to start on making a top end rebuild video

Yeah it’s kind of crazy how much you get just from putting long travel shocks in.

Thanks

Hey mate, follow me on instagram and shoot me a message and I’ll send you the link to the seller. IG: brooksies_backyard

Each to their own but I think the bar and snorkel make it look good

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Thanks mate, and no I am in Qld

Yeah, locked Grand vitaras are basically unstoppable, the only thing that’s holding mine back is the driver haha

Oh yeah, whoops I didn’t even really think of that but I believe 1993 was the change over year so most 1993 rear gears should be right and anything 1994 and up will be correct however if you just get everything (cvs, half shaft, gears, etc) from a 1995+ se or any year sv vitara you will be right. Hopefully that helps.

@@BrooksiesBackyard oh yep I see yeah I'm a 1996 sv420 just can't ever seen to find 12 bolt rear gears for my 12 bolt locker

@@braydenballantyne9309 yeah right that seems strange, you should be able to use your factory gears, but if it helps I got my gears out of a 93 se vitara

Nice work, that is good to know

Hi, sry my english is not the best. What is the ARB? and at what air actuator are you talking about? Here is my "problems", i bought yesterday a vitara 99 2.0 petrol, i've seen that the interior fan was very weak, and the radiator fan was working even if i was going 120km/h in the night and it was cold and rainy, is it normal? Some cars uses often the radiator fan, idk. Do you know something about that? thx

in the reality idk if the interior fan i weak or the air flow is blocked bcs i can hear it running good, but air is coming too slow even at max speed

@@altair9637 1. ARB locker and the air actuator we were talking about refers to the front axle. Not related with your questiones 2. This engine radiator fan is not electric, it will always spin regardless it is cold, the engine is hot, etc. It has a clutch to control how fast it spin but not important, it will always spin. 3. My internal fan for the ar conditioner and heating was pretty weak. It turns out it was just the air cabin filter clogged. You have to remove the glove box to change it. Pretty easy and cheap fix. Hope this helps

Thanks mate, I definitely recommend the lockers, they just turn the car into an unstoppable weapon. Hopefully it all goes smoothly for you when you get around to doing it.