Thread: Has my Defender been chipped ?

I was just wondering if there was any way of telling if my Defender 2.4L puma has been chipped or remapped by the previous owner.

The reason I ask is, I have read that they have a maximum speed of 145kph , I in a private road of cores have hit 155kph and she still had legs . I was playing with a new land cruiser L70 series with the V8 diesel , although he told me from a standstill he had me no problems , once on a roll and 3rd gear he said he had to work the cruiser harder .

I know it has 430Nm and weighs almost 2.4 tons , this may be the reason . The defender was all over it once we moved off , Uphill in 6th gear he had no hope of catching me .

It seem to pull from the lights and push you in the seat and I don’t rev it past 3500rpm, which brings me to the next question what is the rev limit on the puma 2.4 engine ?

I havent noticed the EGR on shut down , but il take more notice tomorrow. The speed was taken from my GPS as I have 265/75R-16's on mine.

Just to confirm today I tried a 40kmph to 110kph in 6th today it dug deep until around 75kph but then picked up its skirt and legged it .

Just as you come off the Wisemans Ferry heading towards Sydney if anyone knows that part its full of steep 25kph to 35kph corners 3rd gear all the way with heaps of pull could even go into 4th but may be pussing it.

It’ll climb the Mooney Moony bridge hill heading to Sydney in 6th sitting on 110kph comfy and I’m able to overtake uphill winding it up to 130kph no probs . So it must have something done to it.

I just removed the cat and center muffler so this may also be helping, it hasn’t done a great deal as it was always very pokey since I bought it .