Thread: Any TD5 turbo upgrades lately

Curious to know what people's experience with Td5zilla tunes are. Have heard of a guy that had a VNT and went back to standard turbo with Td5zilla tune which he reckons performs better than the original VNT set up...which sounds hard to believe? I have a Storm Stage 2 tune on a MSB manual ECU...pretty happy with it (good mid-range, good economy, no smoke) but always looking for more...although difficult to find NNN manual ECUs, so that would be a challenge to changing my current setup easily/cheaply.

Originally Posted by feraldisco

Curious to know what people's experience with Td5zilla tunes are. Have heard of a guy that had a VNT and went back to standard turbo with Td5zilla tune which he reckons performs better than the original VNT set up...which sounds hard to believe? I have a Storm Stage 2 tune on a MSB manual ECU...pretty happy with it (good mid-range, good economy, no smoke) but always looking for more...although difficult to find NNN manual ECUs, so that would be a challenge to changing my current setup easily/cheaply.

All things being equal, a well sorted VGT and tune will be better, especially if you want stronger / earlier low/mid range.

P.M. Shack regarding your MSB ECU

Originally Posted by feraldisco

Have heard of a guy that had a VNT and went back to standard turbo with Td5zilla tune which he reckons performs better than the original VNT set up...which sounds hard to believe?

Depending on how the tune and VNT were setup, I believe that...

I have no affiliation with Td5zilla at all, but I did a job for a guy a week ago who had fitted a VNT as an upgrade from a hybrid.

He was really really disappointed with how it went, said the hybrid was better.... New tune and I think he's happy now!!

Your mate can send me the VNT if he wants.

Originally Posted by shack

Depending on how the tune and VNT were setup, I believe that...

I have no affiliation with Td5zilla at all, but I did a job for a guy a week ago who had fitted a VNT as an upgrade from a hybrid.

He was really really disappointed with how it went, said the hybrid was better.... New tune and I think he's happy now!!

Your mate can send me the VNT if he wants.

So, to clarify, he bolted on the VGT without changing the existing tune?

Originally Posted by discorevy

So, to clarify, he bolted on the VGT without changing the existing tune?

Yep..

As you are aware with the common VGT/VNT turbos available, they are plumbed straight into the boost line, which limits performance somewhat.

I would have thought it would have been better than what he said it was, but there you go.

All good now though I think.

I have mapped about 25 cars with td5zilla tunes all love them including my on my daily disco, vnts are definitely harder to setup and dial in remotely and remember quite a few td5s have underlying issues that don’t get fixed so slapping a vnt and tune won’t magically solve it which some people think

I have the TRS tune, there are better options? I need to learn more it blows black smoke under boost for a second! I'd love to not have that tune as I hate that place, they did me so wrong after and stole my modified manifold and put a warped one on it! Had to go get it then change it back myself! Thieves they are

Originally Posted by Epic_Dragon

I have the TRS tune, there are better options? I need to learn more it blows black smoke under boost for a second! I'd love to not have that tune as I hate that place, they did me so wrong after and stole my modified manifold and put a warped one on it! Had to go get it then change it back myself! Thieves they are

I think they have been superceded!

In fairness they were competitive back in the day, but that was a while ago.