If you're planning to do this sort of thing in your Vitara :

You need to think about your breathers! So... the company I run "Bits4Vits" sells a kit to do this -

So, with a Punch-Hunt event coming up this Sunday, I thought it was best to get mine sorted... quick!

This is the way I did mine, and should be taken as a guide only, not everyone wants to drill a hole in their wing! ;)

Starting at the back this is the standard breather tube that runs from the back axle up into the void behind the rear lights on the passenger / near side of the Vitara.

It runs to this right-angled connection and mount behind the fueltank (mine's lifted 3" if you think the picture looks odd!) and above the rear axle. So I took this off...

There's the long pipe that used to run up into the rear lights.

So I made the bit that dangles down longer to cope with the increased articulation of the back axle (I've got +50mm shocks with +50mm spacers and a +50mm Heim Joint Spacer).

And turned the path of the breather pipe to run down the driver's side of the chassis - simply because I wanted to follow the line of the brake pipes as there is then plenty of places to tie-wrap the breather tubes too! ;)

So there's the black breather tube running along the chassis rail...

The front axle is merely another extension tube pushed into the existing breather (I've shortened mine simply to make it neater) and running up the side of the engine...

The gearbox and transfer-box breathers join here where the big yellow arrow is, and you can see how "low" the standard breather is, a couple of inches up and to the right... so I popped the breathers off the T-piece and stuck some more of the plastic tube into the ends of them...

And then ran them all up to the connector block which has been screwed to the bulkhead (self-tapping screws and a suitably sized drill bit are supplied in the kit!). So these tubes are:

Left side - runs all the way back the rear axle

Bottom-left - the front axle

Bottom-middle - the gearbox

Bottom-right - the transfer box

Right side - to the Snorkel (or highest point possible)

I've run mine up the Safari Snorkel and into the very top of the head of the snorkel...

So I've drilled a hole at the bottom of the snorkel...

And made the existing side hole on the head of the snorkel just a little bit bigger so that the breather tube is a tight fit into it...

And there's the tube right at the top!

Nice easy job, took me an hour and a half, and that was with popping out for some jubillee clips for the front and rear axles...

MANY THANKS go to Simon Touron of www.shropshire-suzuki.co.uk , who designed and assembles these kits for me... take a bow that man! ;)

And if you want a kit, you can get one in the Bits4Vits shop -