MORE POWER!!

This is one area where nearly everyone wants to improve on - the endless search for more power !! More HP in your Daihatsu Feroza / Daihatsu Rocky / Daihatsu Sportrak  is pretty easy to do - especially if you can turn a spanner a bit yourself - The secret to getting more performance out of the engine is to improve the efficiency of the air getting in & the air getting out. ( ie: helping the engine to ' breathe ' better. )

The suspension on the Daihatsu Feroza / Daihatsu Rocky is probably best described as solid & reliable - it is not technically innovative & doesn't have huge wheel travel, but is built to take a beating & is easily modified to a certain extent. The main areas most 4wder's are trying to improve on is Ground Clearance & Wheel Travel & in this section you will find ideas on how to improve both on your Feroza.

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This is a home made snorkel using 70mm pvc plumbers pipe.

The unique shackle design hinges and rotates to allow leaf springs to flex and compress without additional spring stress. TeraFlex Revolver Shackles are self-supporting and fold against themselves on level ground.

Because the shackles are a bolt-on kit, they can be installed easily with aftermarket suspension systems.

Having made excuses on lack of supercharger progress because of the winch, thought I would include a Daihatsu Feroza / Daihatsu Rocky / Daihatsu Sportrak winch progress photo.

Included are some photos of the Aftermarket Headers you can buy from MRT Performance and Genie Headers.  If you own a Daihatsu Feroza / Daihatsu Rocky / Daihatsu Sportrak you are well aware that the stock OEM exhaust manifold has a tendency to crack -- eventually they will all crack.  So instead of replacing the thing that broke with another thing that will break, consider spending a couple extra bucks and getting a header / extractor system.  At the time of this article was written stock exhaust manifold were $175 USD while MRT Performance were $220 USD and Genie Headers were $288 USD (Refer to manufacturer for pricing; these prices do not include shipping).

Why do the original exhaust manifolds break?

Daihatsu Feroza / Daihatsu Rocky / Daihatsu Sportrak exhaust manifolds break due to all the stress that is on them since there is no flex joint in the system from the engine all the way back to the tip of the tail pipe.  As a result the exhaust manifold bears all that weight.  Some might consider this a design flaw :)

As a result of extra electrical loads the standard battery was looking decidedly undersized so an "upgrade" was investigated. As the diesel model uses a larger battery as standard there seemed hope - and on further investigation this is some unused space.

Rather than doing it the easy way I decided to fit the largest battery "easily" possible.

As I bought my Daihatsu Feroza (aka Daihatsu Rocky / Daihatsu Sportrak) second hand it came with the usual array of "odd" noises.  After new suspension bushes/bearings etc etc I was left with two separate noises that turned out to be the same thing.  Having a bit of a thing about metal on metal noises meant that I had to track them down...

Tools needed: None for initial test, Jack, Axle stand ( or similar ) and Wheel Brace for visual inspection ( please don't work under a car solely supported by a jack ! )