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Old 06-24-2020, 07:17 PM   #545 (permalink)
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Brazilian Yaris, basically a rebadged Vios




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Coincidentally, this weekend I visited the brother I mentioned at #525. His Samurai is in a body shop (for weeks now) getting repainted. The repair done when he rolled it rotted out above the rain gutter.

He talked about wanting to re-engine it with a V-4 made with small-block Chevy parts. ???
Wouldn't a V6 make sense? And it would be easier than working around a makeshift V4. If he really wanted another 4-cyl to adapt to the Samurai, a Chevy Aveo/Sonic engine would be most likely the easiest way to go. On a sidenote, Volkswagen engine swaps into Suzukis are not unheard of in Brazil.
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