Thread: One for the wise and experienced...

My understanding of how the EGR works with your model is that for long driving trips, as you do, it probably has little effect. The problem I understand is worse when lots of short trips are undertaken.
With fuel I reckon you stand more of a chance of dodgy quality at some of the discount joints

Greg, I would talk to Kevin at Rovertech for a bit of advice as he has recommended it many times. I got my remap and EGR blanking done by Autocode ECU Re-Mapping | Performance Tuning | Electrical Fault Diagnostics when I first got my car. Since I'm going to keep it till it dies (or me first) I thought let's make it breath easy for it's lifespan so I went ahead. My understanding is it's done by software, so I can be removed easily.

Originally Posted by rocket rod

Greg, I would talk to Kevin at Rovertech for a bit of advice as he has recommended it many times. I got my remap and EGR blanking done by Autocode ECU Re-Mapping | Performance Tuning | Electrical Fault Diagnostics when I first got my car. Since I'm going to keep it till it dies (or me first) I thought let's make it breath easy for it's lifespan so I went ahead. My understanding is it's done by software, so I can be removed easily.

Thanks Rod, I'll talk to Kevin. With the EGR blanking, is it necessary to have the engine remapped as part of that process? I don't particularly want a remap, certainly not while the car is still under warranty. I had my RRS remapped soon after I bought it back in 2010, and was always nervous about warranty claims after that.
But a local mechanic has told me that EGR blanking is not just a mechanical thing, there needs to be some software adjustment done at the same time.

Originally Posted by simmo1

My understanding of how the EGR works with your model is that for long driving trips, as you do, it probably has little effect. The problem I understand is worse when lots of short trips are undertaken.
With fuel I reckon you stand more of a chance of dodgy quality at some of the discount joints

Thanks Simmo. I've never had fuel problems on many previous trips to the Kimberley. Mind you, carrying a long range tank, I generally only need to fuel up once at Mt Barnett, between Derby and Kununurra.

remap is not required to blank.

Greg,

Kevin did mine while replacing the turbos. In my case they were permanently removed, which makes it possible to get at the turbos without body off.

He gets Mark down the road to install an emulator. Mine was one of the first SDV6's that he managed to get the emulator to work on. People on here have great difficulty contacting Mark but Kevin has good access to him, as long as he sees him in person rather than ringing. The two companies are only about two or three hundred metres apart, which is convenient and they help each other out.

Originally Posted by rocket rod

remap is not required to blank.

Isnt the blanking done in the map ie written to the ECU ?

Originally Posted by BobD

Greg,

Kevin did mine while replacing the turbos. In my case they were permanently removed, which makes it possible to get at the turbos without body off.

He gets Mark down the road to install an emulator. Mine was one of the first SDV6's that he managed to get the emulator to work on. People on here have great difficulty contacting Mark but Kevin has good access to him, as long as he sees him in person rather than ringing. The two companies are only about two or three hundred metres apart, which is convenient and they help each other out.

Hi Bob, yeah I spoke to Kevin this morning and he recommended Mark - and said it was almost impossible to get him on the phone. I'm not in a hurry, but I'll get it done in the next couple of months. From what Kevin told me, Mark tweaks the ECU so that it thinks there's no EGR, and permanently shuts the EGR valve.