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ZUKIWORLD Model Specific Suzuki Forum => Suzuki Grand Vitara, Vitara, Chevy Tracker (Gen. 2 Platform) 1999-2005 => Topic started by: MBB77 on December 28, 2008, 11:57:19 AM

Title: H32A
Post by: MBB77 on December 28, 2008, 11:57:19 AM
did any one try H32A on GV?
Title: Re: H32A
Post by: olija on December 28, 2008, 04:36:10 PM
What the heck are you talking about? ???
Title: Re: H32A
Post by: MBB77 on December 29, 2008, 06:16:09 AM
i mean did any one replaced the 3.2 insted of 2.5?
Title: Re: H32A
Post by: Jeremiah on December 29, 2008, 10:54:38 AM
What's a 3.2? Are you talking about engine swaps?
Title: Re: H32A
Post by: MBB77 on December 29, 2008, 12:54:40 PM
yes
replace h25 by h32
Title: Re: H32A
Post by: olija on December 29, 2008, 04:38:53 PM
I think what he is trying to say is

"Has anyone replaced their 2.5L V6 (H25) with the new 3.2L V6 (H32)?"

That'd be one fast GV, that's for sure...I donno if the axles would be up to the task with some big tires on it though.
Title: Re: H32A
Post by: Jeremiah on December 29, 2008, 05:31:29 PM
Oh, I didn't even know there was a 3.2L made by Suzuki. If they can stuff in a 4.3L Chevy V6, I don't see why a 3.2 couldn't be done.
Title: Re: H32A
Post by: JDMCRX on December 29, 2008, 08:50:32 PM
The 3.2 is not a H series motor. I was looking at one and it looks like a different bell housing. the motor is too new.
Title: Re: H32A
Post by: olija on December 30, 2008, 05:45:42 PM
Yeah I don't really understand how someone would get their hands on one of them engines. They just started carrying them in 2009.
Title: Re: H32A
Post by: Jeremiah on December 30, 2008, 06:28:55 PM
People wreck new cars all the time. Seen it happen right outside a dealership a couple times now - someone's paying attention to their new car / buttons and not driving.
Title: Re: H32A
Post by: JDMCRX on January 01, 2009, 06:39:34 PM
Well that truck wrecked is still worth well ovver 10g's

Its not like a 2002 gv you can get for like thousand and strip it.
Title: Re: H32A
Post by: MBB77 on January 04, 2009, 02:11:47 AM
do you think it is posible to use the orginal 2.5L manual transmetion with that engine?
can you post GV with 4.3L photoes and videos?
Title: Re: H32A
Post by: MBB77 on February 01, 2009, 04:52:41 AM
are there any news?
Title: Re: H32A
Post by: Jeremiah on February 01, 2009, 11:29:21 PM
Well that truck wrecked is still worth well ovver 10g's

Not with a bent frame.
Title: Re: H32A
Post by: MBB77 on April 04, 2009, 03:03:26 AM
is it ok if i used V8 engine but with small cc
Title: Re: H32A
Post by: MBB77 on April 26, 2009, 01:28:28 AM
does 3.2L comes manual?
Title: Re: H32A
Post by: Davyboy on April 26, 2009, 12:06:00 PM
I don't believe the 3.2L comes with manual transmission.  As far as the axles holding up to the 3.2L goes, when I was at the auto show, I saw the 2009 with the 3.2L.  I don't believe its front axles were any beefier than my 1999 manual transmission GV.  In fact, I wonder if they're even as strong.  The rear isn't even solid axle, and the rear shafts were very small also..  Suzuki might as well drop the 2-speed transfer case.  These trucks have no ground clearance, no skid plates, poor exhaust pipe routing, small axle shafts, and the list goes on.  To make matters worse, the 3.2L takes up more room, and the nose had to be pushed out further.  Approach and departure angles suck.  Why bother with the 4wd low?  Just put out another cookie-cutter all-wheel drive cute ute if you're not gonna do it right.
Title: Re: H32A
Post by: olija on April 26, 2009, 01:03:42 PM
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These trucks have no ground clearance, no skid plates, poor exhaust pipe routing, small axle shafts, and the list goes on.  To make matters worse, the 3.2L takes up more room, and the nose had to be pushed out further.  Approach and departure angles suck.  Why bother with the 4wd low?  Just put out another cookie-cutter all-wheel drive cute ute if you're not gonna do it right.

I'm pretty sure that is what they said about the Samurai, Sidekick, and Vitara when they were all introduced.

I don't think these 3rd gen Vitaras will ever see the types of wheeling our old Zukes can handle with a few mods though. Besides the "one guy" with too much money who wants to try something a little different who jacks one of them up, locks it front and rear, and makes his own skid plates and body armour, I don't think they have a huge fan base and I don't see them ever taking off in the off roading realm. There are much better choices out there.
Title: Re: H32A
Post by: sir lance on April 27, 2009, 09:51:18 AM
give it time, someone will be putting a solid axle under them, i remember when i first built my sidekick people would say the same thing, or "just buy a sammy its way better" but now look, good sammys are hard to find so people turn to sidekicks, and no one even looked at gv's and xl's, now sidekicks are becoming the norm and slowly we are lifting the gv's and xl's

its all a evolutionary proses......lol 



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These trucks have no ground clearance, no skid plates, poor exhaust pipe routing, small axle shafts, and the list goes on.  To make matters worse, the 3.2L takes up more room, and the nose had to be pushed out further.  Approach and departure angles suck.  Why bother with the 4wd low?  Just put out another cookie-cutter all-wheel drive cute ute if you're not gonna do it right.

I'm pretty sure that is what they said about the Samurai, Sidekick, and Vitara when they were all introduced.

I don't think these 3rd gen Vitaras will ever see the types of wheeling our old Zukes can handle with a few mods though. Besides the "one guy" with too much money who wants to try something a little different who jacks one of them up, locks it front and rear, and makes his own skid plates and body armour, I don't think they have a huge fan base and I don't see them ever taking off in the off roading realm. There are much better choices out there.