Thread: What happened to your D3/D4 today?

Originally Posted by John_D4

Did your old antenna fall off with your new speed?

No, it’s base was silver… the new one is shiny black

Originally Posted by Tombie

Well. Today I took the D4 out for a run with all the new goodies.

Holy Crap! This thing hauls now.

I was so happy I treated it to a new UHF antenna

New steering wheel feels great to hand - although the left thumb grip is a little superfluous at the moment.

Today’s goodies included a few switches, the new head unit, and some other bits for the next phase.

What new speed tricks? More than new Intercooler?

Originally Posted by oldyella 76

Fitted a A.B.R. duel battery monitor to the D4 today, fits quite nicely on the flat section to the left of the instrument panel. I think they are necessary to monitor the 2 nd battery, to check that is being charged, Got one on the puma and found it very good when travelling.
Lindsay

Hi Lindsay and while you have already fitted that monitor, but just incase others read you post, I suggest they look at BM2 Bluetooth battery monitors, which displays your battery voltages on your phone.


These are dearer, about $40 for each unit, and you need to fit one to each battery you want to monitor, but they have a load of advantages conventional monitors don’t offer.


With conventional battery monitors like your, you will quickly learn that you have to continually watch it, to see what is actually going on and this poses a danger as you have to be taking your attention off the road all the time and you may need to have to be continually switching from one battery to the other, if you are trying to followup on some potential problem yo are trying to sort out.


Whereas, with the BM2s, you may have a monitor on your cranking battery, auxiliary battery and your house batteries, and you can see all battery voltages at the same time in real time, or and this is by far the biggest advantage, and a major safety factor, the BM2s data log the info in 24 hour increments.


So instead of having to continually take your eyes off the road and trying to remember all the different voltage reading, with BM2s, just wait till you get to your next stop and you can look up everything that happened during your last drive.


But if you are trying to keep aware of a problem, as one of my customers was doing, when he suspected his alternator was not working properly, you can set warning levels, where if the voltage dropped to the level, your phone will pink you, to let you know something is not right.


Lots more to them but just something to consider in future.

Originally Posted by PerthDisco

What new speed tricks? More than new Intercooler?

None.

Already has (very) free exhaust,
Remap and EGRs tuned out etc

Checked with BAS and the tune has the scope within the ECUs intelligence to utilise the cooler, higher flow characteristics.

Originally Posted by drivesafe

Hi Lindsay and while you have already fitted that monitor, but just incase others read you post, I suggest they look at BM2 Bluetooth battery monitors, which displays your battery voltages on your phone.


These are dearer, about $40 for each unit, and you need to fit one to each battery you want to monitor, but they have a load of advantages conventional monitors don’t offer.


With conventional battery monitors like your, you will quickly learn that you have to continually watch it, to see what is actually going on and this poses a danger as you have to be taking your attention off the road all the time and you may need to have to be continually switching from one battery to the other, if you are trying to followup on some potential problem yo are trying to sort out.


Whereas, with the BM2s, you may have a monitor on your cranking battery, auxiliary battery and your house batteries, and you can see all battery voltages at the same time in real time, or and this is by far the biggest advantage, and a major safety factor, the BM2s data log the info in 24 hour increments.


So instead of having to continually take your eyes off the road and trying to remember all the different voltage reading, with BM2s, just wait till you get to your next stop and you can look up everything that happened during your last drive.


But if you are trying to keep aware of a problem, as one of my customers was doing, when he suspected his alternator was not working properly, you can set warning levels, where if the voltage dropped to the level, your phone will pink you, to let you know something is not right.


Lots more to them but just something to consider in future.

Yes great units.

Originally Posted by Tombie

None.

Already has (very) free exhaust,
Remap and EGRs tuned out etc

Checked with BAS and the tune has the scope within the ECUs intelligence to utilise the cooler, higher flow characteristics.

Is the bigger exhaust worth the expense?

Originally Posted by John_D4

Is the bigger exhaust worth the expense?

Remember mines a 2.7, haven’t done a 3.0 yet.

I’ve changed dump pipe, Cat fell off , larger pipe to straight through box and back to the stock rear exhaust piping.

The pick up improved notably just with these changes and a slight reduction in fuel burn.

Helped get me back closer to standard fuel burn.

And it sounds better

Originally Posted by drivesafe

Hi Lindsay and while you have already fitted that monitor, but just incase others read you post, I suggest they look at BM2 Bluetooth battery monitors, which displays your battery voltages on your phone.


These are dearer, about $40 for each unit, and you need to fit one to each battery you want to monitor, but they have a load of advantages conventional monitors don’t offer.


With conventional battery monitors like your, you will quickly learn that you have to continually watch it, to see what is actually going on and this poses a danger as you have to be taking your attention off the road all the time and you may need to have to be continually switching from one battery to the other, if you are trying to followup on some potential problem yo are trying to sort out.


Whereas, with the BM2s, you may have a monitor on your cranking battery, auxiliary battery and your house batteries, and you can see all battery voltages at the same time in real time, or and this is by far the biggest advantage, and a major safety factor, the BM2s data log the info in 24 hour increments.


So instead of having to continually take your eyes off the road and trying to remember all the different voltage reading, with BM2s, just wait till you get to your next stop and you can look up everything that happened during your last drive.


But if you are trying to keep aware of a problem, as one of my customers was doing, when he suspected his alternator was not working properly, you can set warning levels, where if the voltage dropped to the level, your phone will pink you, to let you know something is not right.


Lots more to them but just something to consider in future.

I like the looks of this. But tell me, do I do attach the negative wire to the Earth stud as per all other 12 V accessories? Or to the negative of the battery?