My new 6 cylinder humm

MrFoxman360

Just a video that I made and put on my youtube channel.

Made a new de-cat, straight pipe exhaust from my Landcruiser Amazon, the kind of messing that people around here are interested in

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7krZSZHh7D4

I do very small milage with it, so i'm not to worried about the marginal increase in MPG (not that its great anyway) Removing the cat does not effect emmissions on an older diesel engine and does allow it to breath easier plus I like the sound more now. With a more modern diesel, that has oxygen sensors, a DPF or a common rail injection system, fitting a straight pipe may actually reduce power and also put emissions all over the place.

After fitting a few anti roll bar bushings it sailed through the DOE test no problem

101sean

You can take everything off a turbo diesel and provided you can fool the ecu to make it run it will pass an NCT/DOE, it's done purely on smoke opacity. I'm sure the EU fun police will put a stop to it eventually though :rolleyes:

Cats, egrs, adblue and dpfs make diesel engines EU3/4/5 compliant but there's currently no way of test centres measuring what they remove (soot and NO mostly).

Know a couple of Td5 Defenders with no silencers at all, sound very nice with a turbo whistle that can be heard miles away

My own 110 has a no egr or middle silencer and sounds good from the outside but is a bit boomy inside at 50ish.

101sean

Good video btw, nice sound at the end, not as good as a V8 but nice all the same

Cheensbo

Great video, fair play,

"the mig welder would rot your sack"


Sounds very well at the end, :cool:

Hardly fancy making one for my surf?

Thelostcountry

She must be a fair machine to pull? locomotive comes to mind ;-)

the comfort must be unreal too.

MrFoxman360

It is a fantastic machine for towing, infact I have not seen any jeep that is better. It has oodles of power and is heavy, so even when towing a fully loaded trailer you feel very in command and control. Towing is all it actually gets used for really.

The Amazon is actually rated to tow a little over 4 tons, which is more than my trailer is rated to carry and more than my licence will allow.

It is superbly comfortable too, and its automatic which is lovely. Even with the louder exhaust, it is still just as quite inside as it ever was.

101sean

I was surprised yesterday to find that the current Landcruisers available here are only rated to 3t. Had a guy ring me whose new business involves towing, was going to buy a LC, is now looking at Discoverys instead which are rated to 3.5t.

It's a shame you don't get big engined 4x4s in Europe these days.

Thelostcountry

101sean wrote: »

I was surprised yesterday to find that the current Landcruisers available here are only rated to 3t. Had a guy ring me whose new business involves towing, was going to buy a LC, is now looking at Discoverys instead which are rated to 3.5t.

It's a shame you don't get big engined 4x4s in Europe these days.

mmm:rolleyes: would have thought the LC would be in at 3.5T

Saying that, I have seen some LC on the road definetly towing over the 3t!!

What was the old reliable one rated at around 97-02? before the D4D **** came out.

101sean

Don't know, 3.5t probably. The guy who rang me is based around Dublin and wanted to be totally above board with no complications if things went pear shaped.

TrailerBob

The 90 series cruiser (98-02) is actually rated for 2800kg officially, but the common perception is 3500kg. I have towed more, and its well able for it, but as you say, the insurance company's legal team would be all over it like friction rash on a cyclists thighs.