The backs of my hands and my wrists are chafed raw... I found the clamps loosened off easily enough, just with a long screwdriver (perhaps they were a little too loose before starting! 
). I also put a SMALL smear of rubber grease on the inside of the hose and the outside pipe edge to simplify slide-on (I was ambivalent about doing this, until I noticed there was already a bit of oil around the hoses & the old pipe stubs anyhow - time will tell if this was a bad call...). In any event, it was still tough - the pipes are LARGER on the new unit - which is good, but challenging at installation. The LHS hose (furthest from air cleaner box) was much easier than the RHS (nearest air cleaner) - I took off the air cleaner box lid to help a bit (and even thought about removing the box itself - every millimetre counts!). Basically, it was a matter of slow-steady perseverance until the suckers finally went on. I also re-positioned/rotated the clamps slightly (note comment above about the "teeth") so that on re-fitting the clamp screw was straight up-and-down - this meant clamp tightening was simple, via a long screwdriver - I made sure they were good & tight, past the ridge on the pipe. Hopefully, the larger pipe will mean that the hose blow-off reported by others will not occur on these new BAS units.
Reply With QuoteI put the Bells 170 BHP remap, the Bells intercooler and silicone hoses into our 2013 Defender twin cab 130 about 2 months ago. 58000 kms on the clock. The remap went in easy as. The Intercooler nearly fitted perfectly except having to elongate the top mounting hole on the intercooler on the passenger side to get it to fit. The silicone hoses were a doozy to fit! Very tight to get onto the spigots due to not being able to get access to get your hands in there without removing airbox, hosing etc.
The remap is awesome. The defender is nearly always at GVM when we go camping and our camper trailer would be very close to it's 2 ton gross weight. The power from the engine is heaps better. We tow our camper up to Logue Brook Dam quite often here in WA and with the stock engine going up the hill to the dam we would get back to 2nd gear by the top, doing about 30 km/h. With the remap we could pull 5th most of the way up and went down to 4th towards the top and the Defender pulled 4th easily, could even accelerate.
Now to the Intercooler. What I have noticed with the remap is that when you are giving the engine a bit of hiding up hills and overtaking the coolant temperature starts to rise. We cannot notice it on the Defenders standard coolant temperature gauge but we have a Scangauge II connected permanently and the highest temp I have seen is 104 degrees Celsius. You can watch the coolant temp steadily climb the longer you give the engine a hiding.
Has Bells Hi Flow Intercooler helped keep the temps down? I am unsure. I never ran the 170 remap with the original intercooler. I can't say either if the engine temp climbing also is cause EGT's to rise as I am not measuring those temperatures. With the standard intercooler would I being seeing even higher temps. Unsure??
As I side note, the engine also went into limp mode and threw up 3 codes, and died when we pulled over coming back from Jurien Bay last week. Everything seemed fine up to this occuring and we weren't flogging it. Just sitting on 100 kph fully loaded with the camper. We also tow in 6th on flat ground and slight short uphills and have done for yonks so the engine revs weren't high. Will keep you posted if blow 6th up! The engine wouldn't start, until I cleared the codes. Unfortunately I didn't check what the codes were before I cleared them. Dumb ass! We have never had the engine go into limp mode before. Hasn't done it since. Will see what happens and I'll take notice of the codes next time and check what they are before I clear them. Fingers crossed they don't return.
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