Exhaust or intercooler???

[Hodge]

Awesome thanks! Yeah I reckon that's the pipes I'll go for. A few have said that the Beaudesert are a really good match for the CRD.

Just out of curiosity, what sort of EGT numbers are you getting? Cruising/towing/hills etc? Was there much of a difference after the exhaust fitted?


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Full factory form I was getting high EGT's. So thats no exhaust, no intercooler, no dawes/needle. This seems to be the norm on the CRD. It's been a few years since Ive owned my 3L. But from memory cruising was around 250-300C. But under load EGT's easily went to 500-600C. Even simple things like booting it to overtake sent the temperatures right up there.
Those temperatures were definitely tamed by intercooler and dawes/needle vavles being set. I hardly ever went over 450 after wards.
I also never towed so don't know how it wold have behaved with a loaded trailer.
The biggest difference to my EGT's were made by the dawes/needle valvees, because the boost was no longer controlled by the ECU and it was no longer a yoyo up and down all over the place. Boost had a linear curve evenly distributed which helped EGT's immensely. Car loved it !

If and when you upgrade the factory intercooler, because mark my words it will leak at some stage... I recommend the DieselSmart exchange unit. Here is my factory and DieselSmart side by side... Good bit of gear. When I got mine it was around $450 exchange...