The best performance upgrades for your TD5 Land Rover Defender

[@ohsoright2503]

Liberty Landys! Great information posted on our group... Thanks🎉

[@Markfinbow-fw3nn]

A great episode. Thank you

[@zentecgarage]

Good info, good video, just got myself a TD5,

[@mowerman60]

I put a larger BAS remaps intercooler ansd silicon hoses on my 2014 2.2 defender.I have cut the both mufflers out,but left the cat in place. I think it goes a bit better and runs slightly cooler. I am in NZ,so no wank DPF here either and unless you have clouds of black smoke pouring out the back,they dont care at the WOF.

[@OverlandingPhotographer]

We stopped installing/recommending Allisport rads/intercoolers more than a year ago after multiple weld failures and leaking issues.

[@atahsili]

Which Turbo would you recommend? Thank you for the video

[@gardenogauge]

Boost boxes are terrible things. They blind the ECU and break the closed loop control for the fuelling. Also they are literally a £0.03p zener diode, £100 is criminal 😂

[@JimBiddle.]

Is Britpart still Shitpart, or has their quality improved, lately?

[@xorable4234]

T-shirt is cool are these available to buy?

[@LRLiveUK]

Think we might offer these soon with maybe some hoodies too. Watch this space!

[@453421abcdefg12345]

Does removing the EGR valve make the TD5 fail the MOT emission test ? Or can this be got over ?

[@MrNineCherries]

I was wondering that too. Hopefully someone can chime in and let us know.

[@Fisssh94]

I’ve had mine blanked, it’s sailed through the MOT.

[@UpLiftTableTop]

By the book it is a FAIL, whether a tester is picky or not familiar with a certain engine enough to spot it missing. In the manual it would fail with 'Emission control equipment fitted by the manufacturer: missing, obviously modified or obviously defective'

[@LRLiveUK]

I wonder if they can't release the bonnet, it gets a free pass - like when child seats are fitted for seat belts!!!???

[@UpLiftTableTop]

@@LRLiveUK if you cant open a bonnet the Tester will either abandon or refuse to carry out the Test, Due to preventing access to a testable item

[@HeliRy]

A sure fire way to destroy your engine, is to do all that without a remap of the ECU. And you never EVER install something that is going to put blinders on the ECU and stop it from doing it’s job. If it’s going into limp mode, it’s because something is very wrong and it’s trying to stop the engine from eating itself. There is a reason every single Defender performance shop has a remap as a stage one upgrade, and intercooler and/or EGR delete as a stage two. Skip a stage… and you’re going to turn your Defender into a very pretty lawn ornament.

[@LRLiveUK]

Quite a few comments backing you up on this. I think I'd agree. Will look into it if we decide to do any work on our Td5.

[@HeliRy]

@@LRLiveUK Sweet. Kind of sucks that with most of today’s vehicles, even the “older” ones like a Td5, we can’t just go bolting on things like we could with something more analog. Well technically we can… but it’s not a good idea lol. If it were a 200 or 300 Tdi, then yeah sure. But cars with an ECU can be so twitchy when we want to modify anything under the hood.

[@jordanc07]

Your totally backwards with what you have said.. the first thing you should be doing is fitting the big cooler as it will do no harm what so ever and you can tell your mapper that it has a big cooler on it 😂

[@geoffplywood6112]

I suppose you're risking contaminating your shiny new intercooler with crud from old turbo and EGR valve as mentioned in the vid. Maybe ideal to get it all done at the same garage visit?

[@tomthompson7400]

Save your money and invest in ACF50 , you can thank me later ,,, I make a lot of cash from welding land rovers ,,, nothing rusts like a land rover.