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Vehicle & Technical => Defender => Topic started by: M4RTZ on September 28, 2007, 23:14:16

Title: chip for a 2000 x reg td5
Post by: M4RTZ on September 28, 2007, 23:14:16

what have people got or had?? best makes and cost preferably. cheers martz

Title: chip for a 2000 x reg td5
Post by: L90OOK on September 29, 2007, 07:56:14

DASTEK (http://www.devon4x4.com/shop.php?mode=productview&product=206/)  Â£400.  Simple plug in takes minutes to fit.
Also worth fitting  EGR removal (http://www.devon4x4.com/shop.php?mode=productview&product=222/) & straight through mid pipe.  :twisted:  8)

Title: chip for a 2000 x reg td5
Post by: Ser3 J on September 29, 2007, 08:53:45

PM Porny and he will be able to sort you out  8)

Title: chip for a 2000 x reg td5
Post by: thermidorthelobster on September 29, 2007, 10:16:54

Tried both Superchips and van Aaken on my TD5 Disco, and went for an Autologic remap in the end.  Found it was def the best of the 3.

Title: chip for a 2000 x reg td5
Post by: Ricky on September 29, 2007, 11:50:08

remap everytime!
generaly all the plug in's do is fool the ecu into injecting a bit more fuel

Title: chip for a 2000 x reg td5
Post by: graemeELLIOTT on September 29, 2007, 22:18:12

http://www.td5alive.com and tell Gary that Graeme from Teammud sent you

Title: chip for a 2000 x reg td5
Post by: Xtremeteam on September 30, 2007, 19:28:41

Quote from: "Ricky"

remap everytime!
generaly all the plug in's do is fool the ecu into injecting a bit more fuel

not entirely

i shall explain once i get unpacked from the wknd

Title: chip for a 2000 x reg td5
Post by: Ricky on September 30, 2007, 19:55:30

i did say generaly. Some are better than others, but i still think remaps are a better way to go
Hope you had a good weekend

Title: chip for a 2000 x reg td5
Post by: Porny on October 01, 2007, 09:01:55

Some plug in boxes are better than others, and the best of the bunch is probably the dastek unit...

To get more power out of a diesel, you put in more fuel (or more fuel and air).

A plug in box will increse fueling usually either by modifying the signal to the injectors (to increase pulse width) or fool the fuel rail pressure sensor into seeing lower pressures, so it ramps the pressure up to increase fueling (at least the ones I know of do)

On some cars, plugs'ins also alter the turbo boost pressures - but it can't do this on a Td5.... it doesn't (AFAIK) even let you wind the boost up past the boost cut on a Td5.
I think at times they also try and change SOI (Start of injection) but Mike will be able to answer more about this.

Personnaly, I'm still not a fan of plug'ins (although they do have advantages when it comes to avoiding warranty issues on new cars) and I'd still rather have a remapped ECU... at least an ECU knows when the engine goes into fault mode, and stops trying to increase the fueling... and I feel they offer better driveability... and don't bring up fault codes or even make the engine go into limp home mode (as I've known in the past).

But each to their own...

Without being a blatent plug - if you wanted to try a remap I'm not that far from you, and can sort out a slave ECU for you to try.


Ian