Thread: fastest discoverys

someone is dreaming

I can say in all honesty that if you have a Tdi properly set up, it doesn't at all feel lethargic. After new injectors and having the pump removed, bolted to a pump dyno, correct plunger movement, and precisely calibrated by Bosch technicians, it's like day and night.

The Bosch agent I use got my old 200Tdi running smoother, quieter, more efficiently and it pulled like a 14 year old. I was amazed at how much quieter it was sitting in the car at idle.

It's also how you drive it.

A mate of mine drove mine yesterday and said it was a slug but when I got to his place (in his Fprd Courier 2wd crap box ) we went down the street and he reconed it feels like it goes 10 times harder when I drive it and I was driving quietly and he reconned he was holding it flat to get it up to speed.

I cant explain it as mine auto and all you can do is put your foot on the go pedal and hope for the best but he was adimant that there was a difference.

I also find that mine isnt a slug and the pump is about as standard as you can get it so I cant wait to get it tuned

Cheaper to run so we hold our foot down and know we get better fuel economy than the V8's

Originally Posted by DiscoDan

Cheaper to run so we hold our foot down and know we get better fuel economy than the V8's

Plus were not scoping out the next servo location

Originally Posted by ahebron

Over here in NZ I am finding that the fastest Discoverys are diesels. Often a TDi is to be seen flying past at the legal limit V8s on the motorways.
And I thought the diesels are the slower cousins.

This happens a lot over here too, usually when the V8 is at the servo getting fuel

On the ball Disco Dan, especially when petrol was nudging $2.00 a litre over here.

Originally Posted by mcrover

It's also how you drive it.

A mate of mine drove mine yesterday and said it was a slug but when I got to his place (in his Fprd Courier 2wd crap box ) we went down the street and he reconed it feels like it goes 10 times harder when I drive it and I was driving quietly and he reconned he was holding it flat to get it up to speed.

I cant explain it as mine auto and all you can do is put your foot on the go pedal and hope for the best but he was adimant that there was a difference.

I also find that mine isnt a slug and the pump is about as standard as you can get it so I cant wait to get it tuned

A lot of people new to Discoverys don't realise how long the pedal travel is, and think that they're "flooring it" just because they've had to push it a fair way.

It took me a long time to realise that with the autos, less throttle is more. It drives so much better pulling higher gears with lower revs where the torque is, not by flooring it.