Modify this Geo Metro
 

Trying to help out my friend Ned Flanders... He loves the efficient practicality of the Geo. However, what modifications should he consider for his Geo to help him in "power-on-demand" situations like this:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=x5EFS6WmxQQ

Nitrous oxide injection? Propane flame thrower?

Lose the dead weight (kids) and floor it. They move pretty good in the lower gears, not weighing much.

Turbocharger.
Or find a bigger geo storm engine.
Nitrous is cool is cool but it has a start sequence. Have to open the bottle, purge the gas from the line (recommended), get the engine above a certain RPM usually 3,000 to 3,600.
You don't want to leave the bottle open, nitrous could seep past the nitrous solenoid and fill the intake with nitrous then the intake on your car blows up because it's full of pure nitrous.

For "on-demand" power, maybe something like Volvo's transient supercharger fitted to its T8 hybrids.

It's the same answer as in any car- a manual. If your most powerful stock setup is 79hp, why on Earth would you hide even one of those horses behind an automatic?

Easiest thing I can think of is put a micro switch some where along the throttle linkage to turn off the A/C.
Oh my switchable cold air and thermostatic intake worked pretty good.

The solution I hit on with the Superbeetle was to leave the engine stock and resize the front tires. The [left front-driven] speedometer is ~12% optimistic.

A mechanic that road tested it was really impressed until I told him.

79 hp = 1.3 L (BIG BLOCK)

55 hp = 1.0 L (little block)


If only I had those 24 extra horses of ground shaking power from the Big Block motor...

Men would envy me, Women would want me, Children would cheer me...

I’d be the Stoplight to Stoplight king of the blacktop .... 🤴



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From the tire screech as it crashes through the garage door, I have to guess the vehicle is already modified. So Ned Flanders must have had a secret boy-racer hobby in that garage.
I found the moment of his character transformation from boring Ned... let the fan fiction begin:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osHwxpRc5n4

LS swap?
 

https://ecomodder.com/forum/attachme...1&d=1603209402


https://bangshift.com/general-news/c...tion-instinct/

Keep dreaming- I've got the 1.5 with 117 hp. Excessive, I know, but it's well worth it every time I see the smile slide off some rich guy's face when I pull up next to his midlife crisis-mobile.

I'll admit, it's not at a red light, but in a parking lot, and he's probably thinking "that thing is parking next to my Mustang???"

117 hp???? How in the world are you able to control yourself in school zones with all that power available? It is more than twice the power my superbug made on a fresh engine reman.

That's what first gear is for.

https://ecomodder.com/forum/attachme...8&d=1603315286

Even though it would most likely not make any sense from a practical perspective, shoehorning a small-block Chevrolet V8 into a Swift or a Metro sounds quite cool. Would make an awesome sleeper. Well, maybe a Vortec 4300 would be already enought :D

Does Chevy still make a 60 degrees block?

IIRC they were phased out even in China.

VW make a 15° block in 5, 6, 8 and 12 cylinders, FWIW.

What's the best Metro-modding thread? I don't have a camera* but I do have one parked out front. I need to flat and buff out the paint, and I need a left-side parking light assembly like the one in the pic.

https://ecomodder.com/forum/attachme...1&d=1603209402

The wheelwell lip is rumpled but the paint isn't scraped, so if I pull the wheelwell liner I may be able to finesse that out.

*Actually I have three but they all need the same $30 battery. :(

I'd rather see an Ecoboost 3 cyl 1L swapped into a metro.

125hp and 150lb-ft should be more than enough to have a blast in such a small car while not relegating it to straight line only.

Maybe the engine of a current-generation Chevrolet Onix would be an easier fit into the Metro. If you could get one smuggled from Mexico...