Thread: Fixed me Black smoke and other things

Ive ordered the BAS Egr kit and silicone hose. Also ordered from britcar the VVT actator service kit, as im going to bite the bullet and fix this as smoke and no low power is not cool, The "engine system fault" only comes on occasionally but it will beat replacing the turbo.

Good luck mate , Gazm3, where you getting the hose from ?BAS? how much ????
Further to this BAS EGT blocking thing , one mechanic swears that both mine and me mates 2006 with the kits fitted go as well as his 2009 with a remap !!!!!
When you see the amount of restriction/build up in the Y-piece and then add removing the butterfly , it must breathe a ****load easier !!!!

400phongas, how are your brakes performing? Any noticeable difference from OEM?

The Brakes , slotted rotors and Kevlar pads do feel alot better , a bit more progressive, not alot of diffrence in Normal Driving , its when you really jam on the Brakes you can feel the diffrence , it seems the ABS comes in ealier as well , Dont know if thats a good or bad thing yet !!!!

As far as fuel consumption went , a fair bit better than I thought !
at a constant (cruise controlled) 115KPH did 622k for 61.5 Litres by the GPS and tank refill ,Dash Gauge said 9.6 K/100L.(so 10.1 k/litrre)
Upping it to 120KPH got 72 litres for 588kph , gauge said 11.7 L/100 but refill said
12.24 l/100K or 8.16 K/L .For that , I was passing a ****load of Triple and Quad Road trains at upto 140KPH when overtaking .So overall much better than I used to , but it will still chew it up when you push it , as to be expected !!!

Originally Posted by 400HPONGAS

Good luck mate , Gazm3, where you getting the hose from ?BAS? how much ????
Further to this BAS EGT blocking thing , one mechanic swears that both mine and me mates 2006 with the kits fitted go as well as his 2009 with a remap !!!!!
When you see the amount of restriction/build up in the Y-piece and then add removing the butterfly , it must breathe a ****load easier !!!!

yeah from BAS. they are 88uk pounds so not too bad.

Im going to do the following just to freshen up.
* Actuator service kit (LR023086) to free up the VVTurbo actuator (rather than the $5kAUD land rover want to replace turbo)
* Replace the IC hose
* EGR blanking system from BAS.

Also was thinking of replacing the MAP sensor while im collecting parts from the UK.

Anything else I should consider while im spending??

The disco3 is a cracker of a 4wd when its working well. Hope this fixes things and gives me lots of enjoyable motoring. There is nothing worse than a black smoke trail, which is more like coming from a diesel gemini.

Im spewing its not relyable cos was planning the trip to birdsville races, but it looks like its next year. Nevermind.

was also considering when ordering

A quick reply for those who wanted to Know where I got the slotted rotors from
try
Other // RapidRS.com.au
Seems the best price on quality "SLOTTED" rotors

fitted the EGR blank off kit and intercooler pipe the other day. I can see why they remove it, it was like a pack a day smokers lungs when they reach 70yo. Its a pretty fiddly job to put the plates on. If you dont have some decent very long pointy nosed pliers u can forget it. I dropped one of the plates down the passanger side and it took me some time to find it.

Car went very well afterwards, pulled very cleanly, but after an hour or so of driving the actuator again faulted P132B, and back came the smoke and reduced power from 1500-2300rpm.
My actuator kit came today from Britparts (a very reasonable by land rover standards 25uk pounds delivered) so its booked in this Wednesday to have it replaced. Hope the labour bill aint too nasty, but more importantly I hope to hell that it fixes this annoying issue.