200 or 300tdi 110 for The Big Trip

When I had my 300tdi I had diesel gas fitted. What a difference! Smooth off the mark with no turbo lag. It brought the fuel down to 8-9 l/100k. Excellent top speed...not sure what it would do but found myself cruising up the highway at 120k/h and had to back off. Also towed better. Jim :D:D:o

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Originally Posted by djam1

I know the Police in the Western Deserts found that the windows fell out of the Troopies at around 30000 Km due to the body cracking up.
Nissans were much worse with body cracks.

Land Rovers are not perfect but there are parts of them that last better than the opposition.

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You'll be accused of having Land Rover blinkers on if you keep posting information on real world problems other makes of vehicles have,just like me :angel:. Pat

Fantastic! Dyno figures don't lie and I thought the LPG would have that sort of effect but still good to hear it first hand. A job for the future!

Just watch your egt, a friend of mine had it fitted to his puma. It increased his performance quite markedly but after fitting an egt guage he found his pre turbo temps were close to 900c .

I've been running diesel gas for 5 years on my Tdi and if set correctly,not over fueling the egt's are the same. Pat

OK - so I worked out egt is exhaust gas temp, but preturbo do you mean before the turbo inlet - but then it goes through the intercooler to get that denser air? What is the issue, lets say assuming it is not set correctly, - melting of turbo?

I appreciate the warning/caution - just don't know what the problem of that is.

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Originally Posted by Craigb

OK - so I worked out egt is exhaust gas temp, but preturbo do you mean before the turbo inlet - but then it goes through the intercooler to get that denser air? What is the issue, lets say assuming it is not set correctly, - melting of turbo?

I appreciate the warning/caution - just don't know what the problem of that is.

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egt is measured properly in the exhaust manifold between the engine and turbo. Aluminium melts at 650 oC. 900 degree intake air would melt your intercooler!

Some of the people fitting these systems either don't know how to do it properly or to impress the client turn it up too high which can lead to high egts if the fuelling is not set correctly. The fellow I'm referring to had it dynoed after fitting and with no adjustments to boost or anything else gained 35kw and over 100nm, it wasn't till he fitted some gauges that he realised he had a problem. Properly tuned brought it down a fair bit.

^^^thats the reason it has a bad name,a little bit of LPG gives the motor a lift so allot should really produce the beans!!,until you melt a piston. Pat