Thread: Egt gauge is in.

Originally Posted by flagg

Wow. What is piston melting temp for a td5? If you do move the probe pre turbo it would be interesting to see the temp diff.. (but don't melt anything doing it!)

Took it for another drive today after getting the settings right on the egt gauge and here are the temp figures. I'm adding 200c as suggested. Cruising @ 100 ks relatively flat hwy 400-450c. Climbing long steep Hill 100ks 650- 700c.

So I figure that's not too bad.

Originally Posted by Disco Muppet

There's a good post by blcknight.aus about Td5s and EGTs.

650 = fine
700 = theoretically fine but bad for fuel economy
750 = you're starting to push it
800 and up = bad, I think Dave's words were something along the lines of "your mechanic will start to use words like 'butcher' and 'inept' and 'why did you fit a pyro if you weren't going to pay attention to it'

I'm wrapped I've got one to monitor egts now. Bloody good investment. I'll be watching it and driving accordingly.
Cheers
Mick