Improving performance on a 1.3 Suzuki Swift

Updated: 29 Nov 2024

As I sadly am not in a position for a new car at the moment or any time soon, I’d really like to try and improve the performance of my 1.3 2006 suzuki swift. I’ve already removed the back seats and fitted a performance exhaust and lowering springs, as well as a high spec air filter and high octane fuel, but is there anything else I can do for less than say £500 that will make a difference to acceleration?

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high-octane fuel will not change the way your car performs unless the higher octane blend has different amounts of detergents etc in it. It might save you money to stick with the octane your engine is rated for, seeing as it is mostly stock :)

five hundred pounds won’t get you much! Try messing around with the top-end like you have already been doing. A larger throttle body might be the next step. If that doesn’t make a big difference (which it probably won’t), a free modification you can do to your engine is porting and polishing the head. You MUST know what you’re doing, and do a very clean job. It will help your engine breathe better at high speed.

I read that the engine in this line of swifts has a high compression ratio (or something like that, I know jack about mechanics) so people said that the swifts benefit more from high octane fuel than most cars, as its only slightly more expensive than normal fuel where I live, I decided it was worth using, if nothing other than to be healthy for the engine. Once the car got used to the Shell V power nitro + I was putting in it, I did notice a small improvement in throttle response, plus the car generally felt happier .

Nope :)

Maybe a 1.6 engine? Should fit.. dont know how much it costs though…

£500 for an engine swap? Ambitious, to say the very least! Not the worst idea on earth though

Funnily enough I have actually thought about that, but the cost of the engine and labour, plus what the insurance company would think….. I’d be better off with a new car.