New to all things French!(Vehicle wise anyway)

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Well I am a new comer to french motoring, although I guess it was only a matter of time when you have a french girlfriend...

Anyway I have tinkered around with a few jap cars in my time including engine rebuild/ conversions , suspension, exhaust fabrication etc. But now I have a Peugeot 405 1.9td that is going to be the focus of my attention for a little while.

Although it is not currently fast, I thought I would sign up here to see what others have done to the 1.9TD to make it a bit more fun. (TBH I bought it to get me to work while recovering from a motorbike accident)

On the list so far is
Remove muffler or replace exhaust with 2.5" system
Cold air box on left hand side of engine bay with 3" intake system
Oil catchcan in existing airbox location
Fiddling with fuel pump/ on boost fueling
Increasing the boost

Well thats what is planned anyway. If previous cars are anything to go by it may take a while but it will get done.

Thats me anyway (Let me in?)

[cammmy]

Turbo diesel tinkering is ALWAYS welcome on Fast Frogs

[Bennny]

Howdy

[far4ngn]

Yeah, come on in

[awatt]

Welcome.

The oil catch can sounds like a really good idea.

[Bennny]

Welcome.

The oil catch can sounds like a really good idea. May pay to put it on the floor under the car though

[Lincooln]

if it has EGR remove that too and clean the intake manifold of all the sludge that would have built up.

Love diesels.

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Well ripped off the muffler the other day...
While increase is performance is quite something, the unwanted attention from the police is not as welcome.

Boost is coming on much sooner (feels like the car is ready to go and moving all through the rev range) and acceleration is much quicker.

As a compromise between performance and noise have just purchased a M&H muffler which should dampen the noise a little but still retain the performance (or most of it anyway)

Although I am starting to love the sound of the turbo spooling that you can hear through the exhaust now!

Have made up the pattern for the CAI out of cardboard, waiting for the filter and piping to arrive before cutting up the sheeting and folding to shape.

[2052NV]

Well ripped off the muffler the other day...
While increase is performance is quite something, the unwanted attention from the police is not as welcome.

Boost is coming on much sooner (feels like the car is ready to go and moving all through the rev range) and acceleration is much quicker.

As a compromise between performance and noise have just purchased a M&H muffler which should dampen the noise a little but still retain the performance (or most of it anyway)

Although I am starting to love the sound of the turbo spooling that you can hear through the exhaust now!

Have made up the pattern for the CAI out of cardboard, waiting for the filter and piping to arrive before cutting up the sheeting and folding to shape.

epic tuning!

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Anyway here is the car as it stands.

Managed to weld up the exhaust, but it has quietened it down too well and has killed off a bit of the performance gain that I got running no muffler.
May look to replacing the muffler with a resonator instead to see what effect that has. Or alternative is to replace exhaust from the collector back with a larger pipe 3" pipe , depending on the cost of bends and pipe.

[k-trips]

I missed this thread - dam - I fuckin LOVE diesels..

Am going to remove rear muffler on my BX sometime soon - looking forward to the power increase TBH..

How much louder are we talking? Did you remove both mufflers or just the rear one?

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My 405 only had one muffler, a big chunky one about 500 by 350.
As to how much louder...um about 10 times louder. But you dont hear anything with the stock muffler on so thats not much of a comparison.

It sounds like your local bus/ 8 wheeler truck with the muffler off would be the best comparison I could give.

[k-trips]

I'll do a comparison - my BX has 2 mufflers - one big and one small. Will peel off the big one and see how it sounds..

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Ok, I have worked out that I can get 3" tubing for $9 a metre from a local yard.
With a reducer and a couple of bends, that still works out cheap enough that I dont mind doing it.

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Intake all mocked up, just need to finish the box/shield which will be tight because of the engine pully.

Plus there is now room for an extra window washer vessel in the engine bay where the old airfilter box was located.
Which will be useful for an intercooler sprayer when the boost is increased.