Rhinoman;
Trackers come with 15" rims standard, and the GVs come with 16" rims as you stated. Why?.., I don't know why. My reference to the GV was in reference to the similarities in body styles to the Chevy Tracker which used the GV body style. Vitara has different meanings, me thinks, to our Australian wheelers. When I was searching for a header for my 2L, I finally located a dealer in Australia. When I checked their web site, I found their Vitara equals the body style of our 98 and earlier model Sidekicks/GEO/Trackers. This led to my other question on the forum about "are the engines the same and would that header fit my 2002 GV body style truck... ".
These trucks are basically all the same... with only slight differences between the years of manufacture, but these small diffences appear to be where the questions and discussions come up.
It would be t-o-o-o easy if they had even more interchangable parts!
Uncivilized;
I want more front braking! They all went with the vented front rotors on the 4-doors, but (Trackers at least) retained the smaller pad. I have replaced two rotors due to warpage. At Auto Zone they cost $75 dollars each. I'm thinking if the pads were larger they would reduce the overall heat build-up (less warpage) in addition to creating "more better" front braking. I never replaced a rotor on my '91 Suzuki (with over 225K on it). All my replacements have been with the newer models with the smaller pads. That was the nexus of my original question.
Norm