ECU upgrades for manual TD5

septimus · 4th October 2005, 04:53 PM

Originally posted by Captain_Rightfoot

Does anyone know if it's the Bruce Davis upgrade that MR Automotive here in Redcliffe sell?

Don't know but you can do it by mail. I sent mine from Kuranda to Bruce and had it back in a week - I am sure if you sent it express post on Monday you would have it back by Friday. Anyway, just ring him and ask him who the local agent is.

And I can support all the comments about Bruce's work. I go up and down the hill from Cairns to Kuranda each day - about 8kms of reasonably steep winding hill. Before the upgrade it was a pain - always down to third then second and takes ages to wind up then down a cog again. Now I fly up the hill! Mostly in fourth gear but drop down to third for the 40kph recommended curves. Accelerates like a demon and was great fun yesterday when I passed a troopie in the short passing lane and lost him in the distance!

The Defender drives like a car now, not a truck. I really thought long and hard before spending that much money but I don't regret it at all now. And I still get my 10.5litres per 100k. Filled today and used 64 litres having done 585 km.

**DEFENDERZOOK** · 5th October 2005, 04:59 AM

[b]<span style="color:blue">now try it with the switch on the clutch master disconnected.....

and anyone else that hasnt done this should try it......
you dont need a chip to do this......
just pop the bonnet and unplug it....</span>

**MickG** · 5th October 2005, 06:53 AM

[quote=DEFENDERZOOK][b]<span style="color:blue">now try it with the switch on the clutch master disconnected.....

and anyone else that hasnt done this should try it......
you dont need a chip to do this......
just pop the bonnet and unplug it....</span>

Is this the switch that would help throttle response also? I came across this in another post but didn't get round to trying it, where is the switch again?

**Jimmy** · 5th October 2005, 09:24 AM

dissconnect the what and it'll do what ??? what did it do??

**Captain_Rightfoot** · 5th October 2005, 11:10 AM

I admint I didn't notice a huge difference when I disconnected it. I might try it again this weekend. [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif[/img]

**Redback** · 5th October 2005, 01:21 PM

I don't know what chip/ECU upgrade that they are talking about, but when investigating chips when i was looking the Bruce Davis upgrade was the only non plug in upgrade available, he just remaps your ECU, and at $850 half the price of the others, gotta be the best way to go.

Mine goes like E'GAD 8O 8O [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif[/img]

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