Since fuel prices in the UK are starting to take the piss I've been seriously considering trading in the Lude and picking up a very tuneable diesel. I've seen a few BMW 330Ds for sale which would be a perfect candidate for a diesel build. From the research I've been doing you can quite easily map them to about 275bhp / 420lbs. Enough mid range power there to worry the scoobies round my area!
Anyone have any first hand experience with tuned diesels that can offer advice about tunability, reliability and MPG returns? Or even advice of a suitable car to go for for abour £4000-£5000?
Try to find a Skoda Octavia Diesel with the turbo or twinturbo diesel. Great car for the money
Tuned... diesel? First time ever hearing of such a thing outside of higher tier racing
Wouldn't it sort of offset the fuel costs which is the entire purpose of getting a diesel in the first place when even an LSx V8 or a subie flat-four will net you decent mpg if you keep the revs low
The EVO XI is supposed to be a diesel hybrid. Wait for that :)
Evos are outta my price range unfortunately. With my job I do quite a few motorway miles so a diesel would benefit a lot with nearly 50mpg extra urban and 30mpg urban, as opposed to 28/22 from my Prelude plus a stock BMW 330d pushes 204bhp, ever so slightly more than the Lude. A simple mapup to 250+bhp while still keeping good fuel returns seems a win win situation, just wondered if anyone had any first hand experience and could offer some advice. Its a growing trend with the more modern Turbo diesels which can be tuned into tourqey sleepers, I've started seeing quite a few mapped VWs down at the strip holding their own.
I think the biggest thing for a Diesel you can do for performance/MPGs is to get a chip and a Turbo/increase boost.
[quote=some tuning website with a bunch of crap]From a diesel perspective, anything that isn't turbocharged is a waste of time from a tuning point of view. Similarly, anything that isn't using electronically managed direct injection is a pointless tuning proposal so we are somewhat limited to modern Turbo Diesels.
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