Can we make our Suzuki Cappuccino faster than a Mazda MX-5? | Yuki Ep.2 

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If you are wo dering about the V10 MX-5, we filmed an update last week that will be coming out in the near future 👍 as I said in our garage round-up last year, the car itself has been restored to be factory fresh (which you will see soon), and there's a new update on the engine which has proved very tricky. Coming soon!

I did a little bit, literally a little bit, of dry ice cleaning myself. That thing is dangerous. You should protect your eyes even if you're not the one doing the cleaning but just standing relatively close. Yes, it's not sand but dry ice (frozen CO2) so it will tend to disintegrate when it hits the surface to clean, but not completely in that moment and, anyway, the particles that come flying can reach you and they hurt. It was my partner at work who mostly did that job and my job was mostly making sure the machine didn't run out of ice, so I was just a couple of meters away. I had my mask, a welder's apron, boots, you name it. However, the apron (some kind of leather or something similar) was a bit too small for me, so although I was wearing some nice working trousers, there was a gap between the lower part of the apron and my boots, so all that came flying back to that part of my legs, well, it was not funny, nothing serious but not funny. If I had my eyes not protected, that would be actually serious. I'm not the kind of guy who's always "hey, safety first", but here...

You won't see significant changes unless you actually up the boost though a boost controller. Talking as a F6A engine owner myself. All the ECU is doing is to prepare the engine for more boost. 1 bar should be safe for starters.

Im in a Facebook group with the owner of Keisport US that designed, built, and sells the ECU you purchased and he was absolutely gobsmacked to see his product in your video! I've had one on order for about a month now, and Im so stoked to see your results for my '94 Cappie!

That welding is the opposite of fine. Its plates slapped over rusty holes. Sealing the rot in making it worse. If you only care about having the car a couple years and then sending it off to scrap it's okay. But eventually it'll fall to bits from the inside out. Unless it's all cut out and repaired correctly.

Wait a second, what happened to the V10 MX5?

Would've been nice to see a before and after Dyno run

Just a quick question. You have putted all those lovely parts on a car that has so much rust on it without first tackling any of it ? Seems like you are upgrading a little to fast if you ask me. I would personally first fix all or at least the worst rust patches and then do any modifications, but hey that’s just me. Lovely work though. Looking forward for more content 😉

It’s notable that such a small car can be the cause of such great excitement 🙂

For those wheels, yokahama a809s (I think that's right) are grippy... They also do semi slick in that size. From mini driver

Can't wait to see this little Cappucino without rust and ready to drive! I'll watch every single episode just to see this little car coming back to the roads!😆🚙

I always remember my Dad's advice when buying a car at 17, which is 40 years ago. Always, always, always get the car mechanically and structurally sounds before spending money on wheels, stereo, exhaust, etc....Oh! and the classic for a teenager 'don't buy a car for the stereo'......

What happened to the V10 MX5?

Really excited for this series

cant wait to see the rest of this series

Loving this series!

These cappuccinos are getting cooler as time goes on. Love the noises it's making now. Should be a blast to drive regardless of how slow it is

SAFETY GLASSES!! c'mon guys. working overhead, rust everywhere...

Definitely following this one! 👏🏻

Cool little GoGo buggy. I kind of wish you'd had put it on a dyno and then done all those modifications to it and and then put it on a dyno it again

Awesome! Thanks everyone, what a great build!

Got one coming in to my garage. Has a custom stainless steel straight pipe, cherry bc coilovers, custom drive shafts and prop shaft. Few days ago a new turbo, wastegate, inlet and exhaust manifolds. Nippy little thing

The timings out - "have you tried turning it off n on again"

A family member has had one of these from new, summer car only and his rusted just the same he's sorted all the rust and fitted coil overs, he's interested to see what the ECU does to engine performance, they are amazing fun cars to drive, looking forward to the rest of this series.

super entertaining as always watching mike with a build now rotary swap this thing man haha

Fun fact: Yuki (雪) in Japanese means "snow"

The music from 5:55 onwards sounds like it's right out of one of the Gran Turismo games, fits the video very well I like these little Kei-class sports cars - this Suzuki Cappuccino, and the Honda Beat are my favourites. Some very quirky cars come from designing to the constraints of the Kei-class regulations, and it's a shame more of them don't get sold abroad - small, lightweight cars can be a lot of fun to drive, don't take up much room, and can be very fuel-efficient - yet so many people are driving chunky SUVs the size of Panzer tanks.

New subscriber here. I cannot believe I never came across this channel before!? Can't wait for the next video in this series!😊

Super fun project car!! Cool!!

besides the fact that podfilters spark plugs and catback exhaust are not power gain parts. you need to get a custom map on that ecu. every engine is different, every tune needs a tidy up.

My cappucino just shipped. I cant wait to get it and drive.

So since drivetribe hasn't fitted the turbo when they should have, the turbo will blow in a short amount of time, but that's ok, I imagine this car will be sold on before that actually happens on camera

Fantastic to see it's an actual UK cappacino and not an important that's still going strong at 29 years old , it's rust why unfortunately a lot of UK cappacino s have been scrapped sadly.

Hereabouts in New England the term "Beater" generally describes a car used as transportation of last resort, or for use in inclement driving conditions. Here, that's most days.

you should make footage of how the car sounds like with each upgrade. previous episode and new episode engine sound/exhaust noise! :)

Can't help feeling you're going about things the wrong way. It would be far more sensible to get the rust problems sorted - and if possible, completely gone and done with - before adding all the mods.

I feel like there could’ve been a little bit more to increase power so just like getting a bigger, turbo and bigger intercooler I know the car is very compact, but maybe you guys can squeeze a bigger turbo on there to increase power but as for Dyno predictions, it probably be around 80 to 90 hp is my mark

Great to see you're changing your country for the better

Here in Australia, where we love Suzukis, the Cappuccino was considered a joke. Love your work 👍

I bought a deristricted one from a dealer in tooting.....brilliant!!

Nice content! Unexpected that A Kei Car appeared here, especially a Suzuki Cappuccino 😂 And Another Project car being made! ❤

I remember seeing one of this built to a track car in 2006 or 2007 in sweden. it had the mazda turbo 13b rotary engine in it.

The extra boosty noises is pretty much entirely down to the HKS filter, I've fitted the same filter to my standard car and it sounds exactly the same

I would also be giving the engine a quick oil flush and a new oil and filter ist .it's a proven fact that even something as simply changing the engine oil can reduce friction thus releasing a tad more horse power .

That blue EF Civic behind it 😍

oooh i've been waiting for this

Now this is gonna be interesting

TY 🙏🙏

Beater has s different meaning hear in the US. It's a car that you daily drive, don't care about parking dings, usually an older car that you abuse while keeping your nice car nicer.

The name the looks, what an awesome machine this is 😂👌

I'm so glad I live in a place with no snow and no salted roads

I'd heard of dry ice blasting but I never saw it done on the car before. The footage kind of looks like a vacuum running in reverse or something like that. 😂 😂

Working under a rust car with air tools and no eye protection. Holy corneal tear, Batman.

Full aftermarket exhaust absolutely is needed. That front stock section doesn’t maximise its full potential.

remember 63hp is at the wheels, not crank. with the ecu and exhaust you will be getting 75-80 max depending on how healthy the rest of the engine is. Hate to break it to you but for a 100hp + you will need bigger intercooler, turbo, more boost at the very least. will still make a nice difference in power non the less.

Love these little cars, the rust stopped me taking the plunge.

"I wonder if they'll ever use eye protection" I ask myself while rust falls into their eye sockets

I wouldn't touch one of these with a bargepole. 3 friends now have had them, 3 have been heartbroken and about bankrupted. They rust like nothing else every made. And i'm including Lancias, 1970's BL stuff and Land Rovers in that.... what you can see is often bad, what you can't is always, ALWAYS a thousand times worse on them. If that floor is that bad and only been getting patched up, that things going to be terrifying under the panels, which will now be all that is holding it together.

They leave the front part of the exhaust, completely chocking it out, and change the rear 🤣🤣🤣

Always loved this car, wish they weren't so rare!

I love these cars. I wish i had one. It would get a busa swap

😍 blue EF civic

I don't get why people put up with salting the roads and ruining their car when there are better options.

Hard to think , that engine is smaller than in my classic Triumph Motorcycles.

Nice Camponchino

Great vid and fantastic to see Yuki again, but do you think you could return to the slightly longer form videos? like around the 20 ish minute mark, these ones just seem soo short. You take out the intro, outro and sponsor and its like 8 minutes of content.

A friend had 1 of these .wicked little cars but christ they rot

Great vid. What made you choose Yuki to take on a MX5 instead of say a Honda S2000?

The open filter gives the louder turbo flutter more than anything else.

Gears & Gasoline approves 😂😂😂

I'm assuming you'll be shipping the car to the US for a run on the Bonneville Salt Flats, looks like it'll be it's second visit at least...

Try turning it off and on again! … IT Crowd meets Drive Tribe 😂

"Look how tiny the stock air filter is" *replaces with smaller HKS filter :D

Mike I have to honest. It can’t beat the MX5.

Well i tried one prepared and yes !

I do like these Suzuki Capacinos l like any Suzuki motorcycles and cars we have a 2021 Suzuki Beleno GLX and when l rode motorcycles back in the 1970s and l only owned Suzuki motorcycles l have seen these on you tube and have never seen the underneath of the Capacino also in Australia these sold for aud$40000 back in the 1990s so they are very rare l have only seen on once and also l have never seen hiw the spark plugs replaced until now and were every thing is thanks

Bigger turbo, Inter cooler and more boost?

The BABY Dodge Viper ❤

Being from california the concept of a car having enough rust to where the standard test involves pushing a screwdriver through is insane. I would be grinding everything down to bare metal, welding it up and doing a full on base metal/clear/undercoat coating to ensure it never happened again. How does it happen every year?

So the guys on gears and gasoline bought this car from drivetribe then. They done a roadtrip identical to this and it was modified to double it's factory horsepower. They published the video yesterday

McXpress made kits for that engine, made 120hp

i have a 99 camry here in los angles...its literally zero rust

Yeaaahh Man’ RedBull hat!

I think the reason Suzuki cappuccino was slow is because it's never meant to be a performance car in the first place. It was made to be like the "scooter" of automobiles. A two-person city commuter with the added experience of wind breeze while cruising in the coastal roads before sunset. That's how I imagine it

@drivetribe .....depends which MX5

Smart roadster has a 3 cylinder, single turbo engine aswell

I realize this is probably more extensive than you wanted to go on this build but....A lot of people dont realize that a turbo charged version of this engine was purchased by a powersports company called Arctic cat and put in a snowmobile. This engine made around 120-130 hp from the factory and could be modified quite easily to make another 20 or 30 horsepower. I'm not sure you'd want to do an actual swap on this car but i'd be curious about just how easily many of the parts of that engine would fit the engine in this car. My guess is that most of the top end parts would fit, otherwise a swap would really only require changing out the crank and figuring out some plumbing. the snowmobile was on sale from maybe 2004-2009? So parts may not be plentiful but nor should they be extremely rare.

did anyone appreciate the 80's 90's Funk music?

I thought you guys were about to put the 2.0L v10 into this thing... DO IT

Great video, but I wish your editor wouldn't use so many jump cuts so we could actually SEE things.

Rust is just nature's way of adding lightness to your car.

I’m more worried about the V10 Myataaaah than anything

We need this to become a micro viper

Kei car turbo flutter is ridiculous. In the best possible way.

suzuki should make a new version of this car

@DRIVETRIBE PLEASE share contact information for the ECU builder. I want to see if they can do this for my Suzuki Turbo Forsa

For Wisconsin, that car would be in fantastic shape. Rust is a way of life here

Don't tell James May you're un-standard-ing this car. I think I'd be on James' side with this one.

Suzuki cars are so underrated😝