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clips:
any experience with the power chip?
 considering it very seriously to use on the td5 90, heard some good reviews (2 sources), non bad yet.
 anyone got any feed back be it for the td5 or otherwise.

(want to leave the origional ecu alone, so like the piggy back system of dastek)

cheers

Hightower:
Got one on mine.  No problems so far.

Makes the car much more driveable.  There are hills where I would've had to change down to 3rd to get up, but now can stay in 4th and not worry.
I also seem to have regained some performance that I lost when I put the bigger tyres on.
Fast mine isn't.  More pleasant to drive it certainly is.

Porny:
The Dastek box...

Does the same as every other box, all it does is confuse the signal from the ECU slightly, so it add extra fuel at the end of the normal injection.

This is far from ideal, as it does mess up the injector timing...

I've heard reports of cars (with other interupter boxes too) suddenly going in to limp home mode... which means you have to turn the ignition on and off to hopefully reset.

Or, at times the engine mil light coming on for no reason, I've even heard of engines cutting out.

Also worth checking EGT... which is difficult without fitting a thermocouple in the exhaust... as some boxes allow this to get too high.


Your warranty.... Land Rover know that people use these boxes, and may check any info stored in the ECU if an engine fails suddenly.

The view of Land Rover engineers is not to use them... some of them are very bad!!!

Heavy smoking can also occur at times....

I'd personally go to somewhere like JE Engineering and get the ECU reflashed (Allisport will also soon be offering this AFAIK)...

This does mean you'll invalidate the warranty on the engine itself, but not on the whole car.
JE (for example) have not had one reported engine faliure from using their tunes.

How many miles has your TD5 done??? more than 1000 miles??

TD5's also respond well to a slight increase in boost pressure (16 or 17psi is good) - and will not hit overboost.
But... you can't usually do this with a Dastek box or similar as the MIL light comes on quite frequently!!

Also, I'm very dubious of the power figures claimed!!!

IMHO, whilst the plug in boxes work - to a fashion - they're not ideal.


Ian

clips:

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How many miles has your TD5 done??? more than 1000 miles??


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about 18k.

 thanks for your thoughts.

i like the idea of increasing the low down torque as the td5 does seem a little weak at low revs, despite the anti stall.
 i have heard of problems with the jerremy fern chip, will look into the JE, just didnt like the idea of changing the actual make up of the vechicle witout the ability to remove it

littlepow:
What about upgrading the intercooler and air filter, maybe even a sport exhaust system? Less electronic magic to fail.

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