Thread: Modified 300tdi v standard td5 power?

Chip your Td5.
Will eat any 300tdi.

X2 As a 300TDi and a TD5 owner I know which is faster, chipped or unchipped! And it aint got 4 cyls.
Cheers Scott

Anyone who is unbiased will tell you that a TD5 is a much better engine than the Tdi.

The TD5 not only has better performance, it also has a much stronger bottom end and better filtration.

Many people cling to the idea that the tdi is better because they do not like electronics.

As Bush65 has said in the past (quite correctly), the TD5 is the best diesel engine that LR ever made (it was also the last one they made).

EDIT: Part of the reason the TD5 is so good is BMW helped improve the design.

(p.s. - flame me all you want, but it doesn't change simple fact).

ive got a 300tdi with watercooled turbo, big intercooler and 3 inch exhaust tuned and my fathers td5 leaves it for dead, tdi for simplicity but td5 flies up the hills

You forgot to add "Flame suit on" Ben

Yes, the tdi is simple. No electrics. It's a dead dog of a motor too, someone on here reckons his Tdi will give my Td5 a run for its money....Bull**** mate
Td5 has far superior performance, but has more niggly faults. Both will probably have a chomp on a headgasket at some point in their life, occasionally they'll pig out and chew a head too. Not that common really.
If you're towing, you want a Td5. Chipped, with an EGT gauge and maybe an intercooler upgrade, and an extra trans cooler if it's an auto and you won't look back.
Td5 for your purposes
Or sell it and buy a 4BD1T
But I'm a Td5 fanboy

Thanx guys I think I will keep the td5 as it will be used for towing more than off roading.

I am convinced you can make a tdi go as fast as the average td5 with the average go faster mods.

I just have no idea how long the tdi will go for in that state.

The 300Tdi injection pump can provide about 700nm worth of fuel.

I know i'd rather buy parts for a 300TDi than a TD5, esp. injectors, heads etc., a 300TDi is so much easier to work on with so many less pats to fail, no oil in computer (only Land Rover could do that), flimsy harmonic balancer, dual mass flywheels.
No thanks even the Autos have a computer, in low range 1st. gear up Mongamulla, no difference, I didn't buy a Disco to tow a 2 tonne mobile home (or boat) off-road, my 94 300TDi disco will tow my 750Kg. CT wherever I want to go at good speed and excellent fuel economy and if I ever have to replace injectors on my 300TDi I don't need a second mortgage to do so, to each his own, IMO the 300TDi is tops, for the reasons stated here, Regards Frank.