Evening gents, I shall be taking possession shortly of a 2011 3.0lt TDV6. I do hear however that there is some slight lag when driving so am keen to look at options to smooth that out and also to increase power as well.

I've done a search but there doesn't seem to be much on what is actually available for the 3lt in terms of remapping. Has anyone on here done so successfully or could otherwise offer any advice?

Many thanks,
Ben.

Hi Ben

Talk to Pete Bell at Bell Autos - sponsor on the sister "Disco3" forum, he's got huge experience of remapping the TDV6 engines. Top bloke.

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I would recommend driving it for a couple of months without the map to see if you then think you really need to overcome this rumoured lag on the TDv6 3.0ltr - it was a feature of the 2.7ltr but IIRC mostly cured for 2010MY upgrade to the 3.0ltr 2020 Pangea Green 1st Edition D240 New Defender 110 is here and loving it
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There's no significant lag in the 3.0 ltr - less than most turbo-diesels. AFAIK, there is only one place in Perth that will do a remap (from DMS - can't recall the name, but they're in Victoria Park), and last I checked the cost was around $2300.

There are a few chips around - not as good a solution, but cheaper and more choice available. Australian company ChipIt do a good unit, programmable and with EGT protection built in.

Cheers,

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antoniasdad wrote:

Hi Ben

Talk to Pete Bell at Bell Autos - sponsor on the sister "Disco3" forum, he's got huge experience of remapping the TDV6 engines. Top bloke.

http://bellautoservices.co.uk/

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disco4x4au wrote:

There's no significant lag in the 3.0 ltr - less than most turbo-diesels. AFAIK, there is only one place in Perth that will do a remap (from DMS - can't recall the name, but they're in Victoria Park), and last I checked the cost was around $2300.

There are a few chips around - not as good a solution, but cheaper and more choice available. Australian company ChipIt do a good unit, programmable and with EGT protection built in.

Cheers,

Gordon

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Hi

Sorry for my lack of responce on the forum latley, its show season and my time have been used up preparing and working on the many i attend throughout the year.

Tuning for the 3.0L TDV6 has been donen for 18 months now and in the last week the MY20128 speed model with no problems, however this tuning is ony available at my workshop as itsa bench program option and not OBD.

The ecus are OBD tuning protected and this does and will take quite some time to crack, untill then the only option i can offer for tuning is if i have the engine ecu here on the bench for tuning.


Pete

bennyboy wrote:

Thanks Gordon, I've heard good things about DMS. I come from fairly well modded sports cars and they have a reasonable rep there so I might do some digging and see where abouts they are in Vic Park.

I see you've modded yours, is that a plug and play chip? Has it given much of an increase vs the price?

Cheers mate,
Ben.

bellautos wrote:

Hi

Sorry for my lack of responce on the forum latley, its show season and my time have been used up preparing and working on the many i attend throughout the year.

Tuning for the 3.0L TDV6 has been donen for 18 months now and in the last week the MY20128 speed model with no problems, however this tuning is ony available at my workshop as itsa bench program option and not OBD.

The ecus are OBD tuning protected and this does and will take quite some time to crack, untill then the only option i can offer for tuning is if i have the engine ecu here on the bench for tuning.


Pete

disco4x4au wrote:

bennyboy wrote:

Thanks Gordon, I've heard good things about DMS. I come from fairly well modded sports cars and they have a reasonable rep there so I might do some digging and see where abouts they are in Vic Park.

I see you've modded yours, is that a plug and play chip? Has it given much of an increase vs the price?

Cheers mate,
Ben.

Mine (the Spider) blew a little too much smoke for my liking, and triggered an EGT warning when towing a heavy caravan, so I've removed it. Performance in the mid-band range was certainly more aggressive (quicker than a TDV8 - around 8.0sec to 100kph), fuel consumption about the same. The ChipIt one I mentioned apparently doesn't suffer from either of the above problems.

Thanks Gordon, I've got s hilux too and I know a lot of the hilux guys use chipit with fairly good results. Do u know anyone who has used it on the 3.0 tdv6 rrs?
Cheers,

Gordon

bennyboy wrote:

Thanks Gordon, I've got s hilux too and I know a lot of the hilux guys use chipit with fairly good results. Do u know anyone who has used it on the 3.0 tdv6 rrs?
Cheers,