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Old 03-11-2012, 06:01 PM   #1 (permalink)
yostumpy
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wallace - '98 landrover 300tdi defender 110 hard top
90 day: 24.56 mpg (US)
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Wallace's progress.

Ok. started to do a few small things to wallace in the quest for better mpg.
firstly. The landrover has a rad 'muff' that you can close up in cold weather. This was originally designed for the earlier landrovers, and it does work quite well. So I decided to close it up to effectively grill block. ok its not smoothall over but its ok. The prob was that next to the rad is the turbo intercooler(3/4 rad, 1/4 ic), and this was getting no cold air, so I cut out a square, and made a stiff plastic angled diverter to mount behind the grill, so all air that does get in, goes to the IC. Seems to work a treat. the heater smells hotter now, but the gauge does move up any more.


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