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200 into 90
graham2306:
I ummed and ahhed over the Steve Parker downpipe for ages when I did mine, and got lots of people on here saying make your own. In the end because I only do snot welding and was doing all the pipework etc on the drive outside the house I went for the Steve Parker option. I have wrapped it in exhaust bandage and coated the bulkhead with stick on heat reflective tape and it works great. Yes it was expensive for what it is, but it was cheap when you look at how long it would take me to make one and the grief I would go through.
I went to a performance car supplier in Walsall and bought up all their stock of silicon hose and stainless joiners in Land Rover size, to make the intercooler pipes and I have an airfilter I dipped from a skip that was originally for a Peugot 307. I emailed K&N the dimensions of the paper filter and they identified it and gave me the part number for the K&N version. It is mounted on the aircon mountings at the offside front of the block and has the base of the original Discovery filter on it with the oil breather feeding into it. It then breathes through a double walled silicon and wire air pipe that I got from a racing car supplier in Luton across the front of the radiator and down to the Turbo.
Tightening the fan belt was a real [!Expletive Deleted!] because I had to take all the pipe work back off to get at the bolts, getting the temperature guage to read right will never happen. I used a 2.5 petrol sender and the guage from my 2.5 deisel. They work together fine but the 200Tdi runs hotter anyway so guage reads at three quarter mark. Fitted a leccy fan from a mitsubishi FTO, which came via a mates NIssan van. Two speeds and works a treat. Bought a 50p wilkinsons lunch box to put all the relays in and keep them waterproof.
Graham
way2deep:
thanks for all the input guy's ...much appreciated ...just a quicky tho what's the bhp or torque difference between the 90 2.5 turbo diesel and the disco 2.5 td
way2deep:
bump .
muckmoses:
Land Rover Turbo D produced 88BHP & I think 11lb/ft of torque.
200TDi 107(Defender)/111 (Disco)bhp & 195lb/ft of torque.
That's before you start playing with it.
300TDI was same as Disco, except some later auto's had more power.
Oh and not only did power increase dramatically so did MPG upto around 30MPG in a Defender if you drive carefully.
stefan:
I initially used plastic waste pipe to join my pipework, it failed spectacularly in a traffic jam on the M3. Most plumbers merchants should have the same diameter copper inserts, that's what I used, been fine now for 18 months.
Stef
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