Thread: DP Chips? Yes or No?

Best post in the disco forum. This forum is for Series 3 land rovers - built from 1971-1984.

welcome aboard mate.......

not quite the right section but hang around long enough and we will bring you up to speed on landies, one of the mods may move your thread to the D3 area

cannot help you with a D3 however i have driven a D2 with a DP chip, the reckons it wa great as he could choose the settings depending on his needs

There has been a lot of discussion on disco3.co.uk about boxes and the consensus appears to be that a re-map is better as the box only overfuels but the re-maps work with bith timing and fuel pressure. With older engines they work fine but engines like the TDV6 you can get much better results with a re-map.

With current technology, the re-flash method (ie they "remap" the program that resides in your car's ECU) is better than the plug-in boxes. There's no theoretical reason why a box needs to be inferior, it's simply a lot cheaper (and easier) to vary 30 ~ 100 parameters in software, than to re-fabricate I/O and dedicated circuits in a plug-in box.

Because of that, you'll likely find that there is a greater difference in the performance of various plug-in boxes, than there is with remaps, so there is the possibility of getting some really crappy box designs

However, you might find it difficult to find someone in the North West that can remap the car, so I can understand the attraction of a plug-in box. I exchanged quite a few emails with a Queensland mob who were distributing the DP box, they seemed fairly knowledgeable about the product.

Alternatively, next time you're in Perth, Southern's can organise a remap for you - takes about 3 days, and you get a warranty. Barbagallo's probably do something similar.

Cheers,

Gordon

That’s for that information Gordon, very helpful of you, I am very happy with the overall performance of the TDV6 but non Land Rover people were in my ear that the Landy was not set up correctly for the North West, I think I will just put some Hiclones in for now and see how it performs.

Cheers.