The end of my Discovery.

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Originally Posted by loanrangie

Yes they are very quiet, my wife rarely hears me leave in the morning and i park not that far from our bedroom window.
You definitely hear jap diesels pull up beside you.

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Milk trucks by comparison. TDV6 noise is very satisfying and nice under power and load also.

I must admit though the 1HZ NA noise I like also. Starts after about 1/10 of a revolution and they have this pleasant gasping noise on gear changes after delivering all their 50hp

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Originally Posted by PerthDisco

Milk trucks by comparison. TDV6 noise is very satisfying and nice under power and load also.

I must admit though the 1HZ NA noise I like also. Starts after about 1/10 of a revolution and they have this pleasant gasping noise on gear changes after delivering all their 50hp

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TD5 is another good sounding diesel.

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Originally Posted by loanrangie

TD5 is another good sounding diesel.

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And i think Les needs a name change , not so lucky after all [bigrolf].

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Originally Posted by discorevy

Well it was the Auto D2a (I've only run the manual against the 3.0 D4) and it's only "Dragged" 3x tuned 2.7's (1 was mine).

The D4 3.0 reeled the TD5 in after about 15 seconds.

Another was one that had been tuned on the dyno via Dazza on here, and we did 6 runs all up ( owner couldn't believe it the first few times ) I even let it spool up and take off before me a couple of times and the TD5 was between 8-12 car lengths ahead after 400 metres.

They do have a weight advantage..

Apologies to O.P. for off topic and loss of your engine

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Yes, apologies to the O.P.

Also...I must send your warranty terms and conditions over for you to peruse...

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Originally Posted by shack

Yes, apologies to the O.P.

Also...I must send your warranty terms and conditions over for you to peruse...

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Ah yes, how remiss, they'd have to be worth at least the air that they travelled on.
I'd hate to do any damage as they have only 960 000ish kilometres between them and I'd at least like to run them in.

For those wondering, I have been upgrading hardware for a number of years and using James (shack) for TD5 tuning for the last couple on a number of peoples vehicles, including my Guinea Pigs with great results (no smoke, better than stock fuel consumption etc).

I know it's not the correct thread, I'll exit now

I know it's not the correct thread, I'll exit now.

Please continue, start a new thread if you're more comfortable with that.

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Originally Posted by discorevy

I know it's not the correct thread, I'll exit now

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Bollocks. The vehicle in question was buried a page of posts ago and the thread long de-railed. Carry on (nurse).

Don't stop, I'm quite enjoying the read.

Fwiw a number of the tunes that Craig has been running are early development tunes that worked out better than we thought they would, they are not finished, but I believe have been rock solid for possibly up to 2 years...I don't view them as finished anyway.


So that's where he's getting the sneaky "tuned 2.7 beating" performance.

That and the hardware side of his vehicles is pretty tight.

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Originally Posted by LuckyLes

Don't stop, I'm quite enjoying the read.

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Les.

If you ever felt like a sneaky risk, a well looked after 2.7 is not a bad vehicle, the big unknown of course being the crank, and exactly what causes the breakage/issues.

Why do some cranks die at 80k km, and others are still going at 600k km, I'm mainly talking 3.0l of course.

The main issue with the 2.7 seems to be failed oil pump housings, which seems entirely curable now.

I fully understand if you are done with them though.