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TD5 power upgrades
Porny:
--- Quote from: "Eeyore" ---I'd personally consider remapping over plug-in boxes for a couple of reasons.
TBH as well, if you're after flattening up the torque curve, changing the exhaust will make very little difference (seen the dyno results from J/LR). Save the cash for a better intercooler and remap.
.....and making sure the EGR works properly :wink:
Just my tuppence
Cheers
8)
Eeyore
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Or get rid of the EGR completely!!! :wink:
(not that I now have a kit that does that......). Un-needed for anything apart from european legislation.
As mentioned by Eeyore the standard LR exhaust isn't that bad at all... the early Td5 down pipe without the CAT (of sorts) is the best of the bunch and a replacement straight through pipe does make a massive difference the exhaust note!! (and a 'marginal' improvement in peformance).
Plug in boxes.... does the Dastek unit know when the engine develops a fault?? If engine goes into limp home mode for example isn't the plug in box still trying to add more fuel? :?
--- Quote ---Having said that, I'd like to try a chipped/over-driven 110 to see how it compares to mine.
So, if there's anyone near me with one
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Bush Tucker Man - the offer still stands if you want to try a remap in yours... my girlfriends parents isn't 'that' far from yours (about 50 miles each way) - so if you wanted to have drive over I could put a remapped ECU into your 110 if you wanted to have a go??? (up there on the 24/25th March)
Better off always trying it in your own car :wink:
I'd never sell a remap for any claim in increased top end speed... a remap makes a massive difference to mid range torque and pull away. Tipping in (or a stab on the throttle) will actually make you accelerate (i.e. push you back into your seat) rather than just a gradual increase in speed. A remap will massively improve the way your Td5 drives!!
One of my next things to try is what the engineers from Land Rover did (advanced diesel engineering).... they found it makes a 'massive' difference to the way the Td5 drives!!! Eeyore you may have already spoke to the same person???
But was sidelined due to cost......
Ian
Porny:
--- Quote from: "Moneypit" ---Gary at Td5 Alive does a by post service.
You post him your ECU, he remaps and returns it to you the next day.
Details on his website.
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Not hard to offer that service.... however I do have one problem with it, along with all the people who offer plug in boxes!!! :shock: ...
(Regardless of the fact that most of the people who are retailers for plug in boxes have absolutely no technical know how... i.e. Muppets!!!.... Who simply sell plug in boxes without really knowing what they are selling! - I even had one bloke trying to convince me the plug in box they sold gave the Td5 195bhp!!! with no other mods :roll: - yet couldn't even tell me how the box worked.... this was a LR parts specialist)
As a norm I will not remap any TD5 (or tune any other diesel) without first doing a 'full' diagnostic check on the car. Which means reading any fault codes (and rectifying faults) and doing a 'live' engine check.
There is absolutely no point in remapping a car that has engine faults!!!
Without doing a full check there is no way to ascertain that the engine is free from problems. An owner may simply be putting low power down to the design of the engine, rather than a fault with part of the engine!!!
A remap or plug in box will simply try to mask the fault - but not get rid of it!!! - And any performance modification will not be making its full potential.
An owner needs to drive there car with everything working 100% before they have any performance modifications done to their car!!
Ian
L90TD5:
--- Quote from: "Bush Tucker Man" ---
Having said that, I'd like to try a chipped/over-driven 110 to see how it compares to mine.
So, if there's anyone near me with one :wink:
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Bush Tucker, you generally see me going in the opposite direction for a breif moment :D If we were going in the same direction you would also see me for a breif moment!
8)
I know its a 90 and not a 110 but a tuned td5 with overdrive and other mods....makes a hell of a difference.
If you ever want to try before you buy with a performance mod, just let me know.
T
ps: Ian also did my remap. Works WITH the engine and doesnt confuse it like plug in's. Smooth power delivery, no black smoke. Perfect. However, your right in the sense that gearing is the ultimate modification. Hence the GKN. No point in all power and no legs ey?
Jake:
--- Quote from: "Porny" --- however I do have one problem with it, along with all the people who offer plug in boxes!!! :shock: ...
Regardless of the fact that most of the people who are retailers for plug in boxes have absolutely no technical know how... i.e. Muppets!!!.... Who simply sell plug in boxes without really knowing what they are selling!
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Ian.
Are you implying that Devon 4x4 are muppets without any technical knowhow?
Thats a bold claim and very wrong statement
:roll:
thermidorthelobster:
To be fair, he did say "most of the people".
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