Steinbauer or other chip

[nickoslux]

Has anyone installed a steinbauer or similar chip?
I had one on my previous 2012 and it made a big difference and never had an issue. Towed my boat today with my new 2016 SR5 and was a bit underwhelmed

[Hilux Max]

No offence but i dont understand how?

new hilux has 450nM which is more than most N70's with a chip installed had. plus the 3,5 tonne towing capacity.

????

[snakesoup]

smaller displacement engine??


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[martynvella]

Be interesting to see how long it is before there is someone on here complaining about Toyota not covering their engine in the new model with a melted piston because of the chip they had fitted (that is Toyota not covering them because of the chip).

Smaller displacement pushing about 5 tonne up hills, can only mean cylinders working harder with higher combustion temps, and people will want to push them harder with a chip. Just my view.

I really thought Toyota would have gone along the lines of a 4 litre V6 diesel, not make the engine smaller.

What is the new engine anyway, did it end up being the BMW that there was so much speculation about?

[john253a]

What mods do you have on
Bigger wheels?
Or weight added ie draws and canapé, bar work dual batt

My has over 600kg in mods and Inturn is using the torque up

Idd so the maths and look into a ratio change if running bigger wheels
But wouldn't be fitting a chip,
There is a lot hype of companies saying/ garanteing warranty, just many don't have months to fights it with nothing to drive nore the money to cover it then fight it

[Ryan1kd]

The new engine is the 1gd-ftv. Developed by Toyota. Is a fantastic engine. Instead of the usual high compression knife edge common rail Diesel engines we are used to, they've lowered the compression and developed the head for dramatically better flow and far better combustion with the new piston design. Lower compression means lower temps, also the reason they are a lot quieter. I read something about it a while ago as to why they went smaller...they had some fandango reason why the 2.8 was physically stronger than the 3.0 and how it wouldn't be so serseptable to Pistons cracking. I towed a 3.3ton trailer of rubble yesterday...and yes it felt heavy...you would feel it behind anything...but it pulled and stopped it not a problem. It's in standard form.

I don't think I'll ever get a chip on this one though....not for another 10 years when I don't care about it anymore. Toyota engine management is superior to that of a cheap chip. Reliability is directly proportional to that of the tune.

[DAZ.]

Remap works nicely once you get rid of the restrictive muffler.

[nickoslux]

Daz
Did you remove the muffler only or the lot from the joiner flange back and how much difference did it make? The pipe narrows from under the drivers seat back, has anyone put a larger diameter from there back and did it make any difference or just more noise? Beaudesert exhausts are doing a system from the flange back, has anyone got one of these?

[DAZ.]

The pipe is narrow all the way, as it is double layered with insulation to stop noise inside it from the dpf to where it narrows.

we went from DPF back with 3" with straight through muffler in stainless.

The other we cut and dumped with straight pipe in front of the diff housing.

[Duffman19]

Can anyone recommend a good place to get a steinbauer chip

[davo94]

Can anyone recommend a good place to get a steinbauer chip

Look at unichip. Same price better product. Steinbauer is old tech