Power Upgrade for 3.0 litre diesel or engine swap

[Warwick89]

What about a turbo timer? Does anyone think it's a good idea?

Waz

[P4trol]

Waste of time. You can do the same by not turning off before you have collected wallet, thongs and got out of the seat.

As part of NADs people often fit a temperature guage (pyrometer) with the probe situated just after the manifold to measure exhaust gas temperature (EGTs).

A more correct method to guage shut off time would be a temperature on the egt guage below which signifies the engine is cool enough. 200 degrees Celsius is a general figure.

The egt guage gives a good understanding on what causes high eg temperatures. Highway driving will need a little extra time to idle and cool down. Hitting your nominal maximum egt temp? Modify your driving. Subtle changes in your driving habits will allow lower egts and hopefully save your engine.

[Warwick89]

Waste of time. You can do the same by not turning off before you have collected wallet, thongs and got out of the seat.

As part of NADs people often fit a temperature guage (pyrometer) with the probe situated just after the manifold to measure exhaust gas temperature (EGTs).

A more correct method to guage shut off time would be a temperature on the egt guage below which signifies the engine is cool enough. 200 degrees Celsius is a general figure.

The egt guage gives a good understanding on what causes high eg temperatures. Highway driving will need a little extra time to idle and cool down. Hitting your nominal maximum egt temp? Modify your driving. Subtle changes in your driving habits will allow lower egts and hopefully save your engine.

I'm goingg to be doing a lot of kms in the next 12mths on and off road, having the egt gauge is already on the to do list just thought the turbo timer would come in handy after a long day behind the wheel.

Waz

[Warwick89]

Dawes valve catch?
Sorry missed this before and not quite understanding what is does

[P4trol]

Dawes valve is a 'safety valve' to manually limit boost.

Catch can is to remove oily vapours from the air being fed from inside the engine back to the intake.

There is a document somewhere from either this forum or the other one. It does a better job at explaining it all. You can skip the boring bits and pick it back up when the interest takes you there. It isn't the service manual. It compliments it.

Does anyone have the link?

[Dr Gary]

We have towed a heavy camper trailer to Birdsville, Queensland central coast etc, Also done quite a bit on tough farm roads with plenty of steep crossings and hills with camper in tow.
We have never been short on power, although we do need plenty of space if overtaking.
Only mod is an exhaust system. I suspect NADS would be good, and chips certainly add kw.