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Don't chip a car until you know it's running perfectly first. If it's not doing what you expected, diagnose it. Get some data from the car. Is the boost figure what you expected? Is the MAF reading what you expected? Also, use your own senses. There's thick black smoke coming out of the exhaust. It's over fueling. Is an injector blocked? Is the turbo not spooling properly? Is the intercooler blocked or leaking? A custom tune is always superior to a simple, generic flash tune.
great advice..... similar money and time but MUCH easier to keep it all in the correct order of the process. That air filter and subsequent intake/MAF inspection should have been picked up very early on
Not sure if it was in the edit and actually it was done after. But yeah your 100% right, not running the car on the Dyno as is and then troubleshooting the evident issues it clearly has was a surprise.
My dad bought one of those OBD2 port power booster things, he swore it gave the car at least 50HP, I took it apart, it's literally just a blinking LED, it's not even using the communciation pins, it's just using the port for power.
it just goes to show how much ££ u can make on scamming ..... there are many gullible people. I don't even trust piggy back from reputable names .... I've been using Haltech Sprint 500 or MoTEC m400 standalone on my 90s hot hatch
I worked at one of those quick oil change places after high school, and a lovely senior lady came in who had been driving her husbands Jeep 4.0 after he had passed maybe 5 years previously, and probably the first service since. The air filter was just the metal screen with the rubber gasket around the edge, there was no filter left. This was on the west coast of Oregon with the sand and the salt, and that silly jeep still ran like a top, too.
That 2.4 5 cylinder lump is a bit of a beast, but they are known to crack the heads. I had a 2010 159 ti sportwagon 2.0 diesel ( a revised 1.9 with 170bhp and 350nm of torque as stock) and it just loved a motorway. It made long journeys a really relaxed affair, as it would be just shy of 2000rpm at 70mph. Decent fuel economy as well.
Running a 2007 325d with a Superchips map, gets 48mpg/5.9l/100km on a run, roughly 260bhp and I did over 700 miles in it, in one go, twice recently. Great motorway cruiser, bag loads of torque and decent grunt from 1200rpm. Pretty hard to fault the M57! A 159 wagon with the 2.0tdi engine was a car I was looking at getting when the 325d came up.
Actually if you do DPF, EGR and swirl delete, 2.4 is super reliable engine. 2.0jtdm isnt that great either, its so uncommon engine there are actually problems with servicing it.
@@nekite1 Thats nice for sure. There are cars that needs only basic service like oil change. And then there are cars that need drive shafts, which are nightmare to buy, they are not available everywhere, there are also same problems with dpf like on 2.4. Also there are a lot more problems with swirl because of plastic intake etc. But if 2.0 works, its awesome engine.
I also drive an 07 Brera (see my profile picture) same engine as this one, and I can confidently say my Air Filter was sooooo much worse than that, the entire and I literally mean the entire thing was rotten and flaking away to the touch, I bought it in 2018 so I have no doubts it was the original filter from 2007, the engine bay was also covered in sand, the previous owner has alot to answer for!
That compressor impeller in that turbo probably doesnt look very nice after eating half an air filter, that tune is way of and need more air for sure, anyway a fun project car :)
I had a MY2007 Alfa 159 SW with that magnificent 5-cyl diesel engine, I even got the same "twizzling" gear knob problem a couple times 😅The knob thing is easy to fix, it's just a screw beneath the gear knob's top cover. During my last year of ownership -the 16th!- I also had the engine smoking like mad (like the Brera here): it was somehow not getting enough air. I sold it before I ever got to the bottom of it. Absolutely loved that car and that engine.
I grew up in a mechanic shop doing custom and race stuff. We all have a carpenter hammer somewhere. We also will use anything as a hammer when it in reach and there is always a cheater pipe somewhere. Might not be right but it happens in the real world.
black smoke is just unburnt fuel, turbo could be knackered or a split in a boost pipe would be my guess, dpf is probably overdue a clean. a good tune shouldn't really have any black smoke, or atleast be very minimal.
I bought a Brera the other week - thankfully in a much better condition than this one! It’s a superb car and I absolutely adore it. Thanks for this video though. It’s very informative for how I should run it and what problems to look out for in the future ❤
When you change a EGR valve I suggest to remove a throttle body and clean canals in intake manifold where opening for EGR is. It will spin the mixture of exhaust gases and air and engine will spool faster and at lower RPMs. I suggest after seeing the air filter that you check turbo blades. I bet they are damaged. Here is a lot work to do to bring car back because it was neglected quite bad.
When I had my GT 1.9JTD on Alfa cruises I was keeping up with the 3.2V6 GTs in fact the only thing that kept me back was the V6 had longer legs between gear changes. Alfa offered to tune it up when I bought it from them, but after the cruise I went against it as it wasn't needed. Food for thought👍
@@terot8341 all the videos I’ve seen from channels I trust, like MightyCarMods, did dyno tests and found no gain. I personally trust them more than the filter manufacturers.
One more thing I would suggest is a Terraclean , it would give my old RR P38 diesel a new boost every time. Flush the whole system not just the bits you can unbolt 👍👍😎
Love calling out the pedantry from tool snobs. There is a right tool for every job. But sometimes its the person holding the hammer instead of the hammer.
Adam Savage said it best, buy the cheapest tool which gets the job done and only when you’ve broken it then replace it with a more premium variant. You’d be surprised how many of those budget tools you started out with remain usable decades later
Air filter changes are often forgotten on these 939 platform cars due to the airfilter location, when i bought my 159 1.9jtdm the airfilter was completely black and gunked up and after replacing it i felt the difference as soon as i left the shop. Its also really important to change the airfilter on these turbo diesels aswell, i have some strange noises coming from the turbo sometimes and its probably due to the intake being partially blocked off by that old filter.
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The enthusiasm of the camera Crew is truly inspiring :)
Intake manifold is definetly clogged the same way that the egr was. So if you take it off and clean it there’s a few free horsepowers :) its a big job to do tho
What's scary is my 2019 Mazda6 (with an EGR delete) makes 202hp and 494nm on its stock map (rated at 184hp and 445nm). That Brera is doing well for an old lump!
My happiness was/is my family and to make me even happier, my boys are now watching with his old man all of the original Top Gear episodes. They are now on the path of becoming petrolheads. Couldn’t be happier.
I had a 159 2.4 jtdm, also had it tuned. Looked amazing, it was a black on black on black spec. But boy did it put out some black smoke when you put your foot down, couldn't see behind you lol
I found my happiness. It’s a proper Busso GTV6 quad cam that’s never been near Autosportivo, and never will. It has had help from Alfa City along the way though 😁
Get an euro3 intake manifold without the swirl flaps and clean that before fitting, if the egr is that clogged what you think is in de manifold.. and than just block it off. Did the same on my old 159 sw and even without an dpf it passed emissions 240hp and 500nm
I just bought a 07 plate spider that has been sat for a year.The problem with lack of power will be the swirl flaps.Ive seen these engines make 270bhp.Hopefully my spider can be saved needs alot of work.
Its really clear that something is a drift with the amount of smoke its throwing out. Might be worth checking for boost leaks. You may also find that faulty swirl flaps won't help the engine to much. You could have deleted them while you was replacing the cam belt and water pump.
mike next time you fells have to loosen rotted line fittings like those, use a small mini torch. the heat will expand the outer part of the fitting without boiling the brake fluid. i do it all the time =)
Never seen an air filter that bad. K&N make great filters, but the oil on them can damage MAF sensors. The consensus would be not to run these in the diesel tuning world. They also don’t offer as much protection versus an OE equivalent one from the likes of Mahle or Hengst.
Did the dyno do a conversion to flywheel horsepower? If not, making 202 hp at the wheels is actually a significant improvement over stock, likely by 10 - 15 %, from driveline losses.
i found my happiness when my VW polo 1.0 started for the first time when i was 17 after nearly 3 weeks trying to get it to start with very limited knolage a dial up internet oh and a haynes manual. PS i used the side of a claw hammer to get the alternator bolt out as it was rusted in its hole XD (yes i did remove the nut first)
1. My son would like to have a Brera. Well, not anymore after watching the videos so far. 2. Happiness: Mike, we met at the best place of car people happiness. Traffic jam att Döttinger Höhe. 3. With my broken air mass meter my Audi A4 1.8t wouldn`t go beyond 200km/h. With it fixed it was back at faster than 240 😉
"There's a diesel model for if you're the kind of person who looks at the Mona Lisa and thinks she should have a moustache" -Clarkson on the Brera Diesel. I'm kidding, the 5 cylinder diesel is a peach in these if looked after well.
So the Brera is heavily overfueling, and your next step is plugging in some cheap powerbox that will overfuel it even more? That really makes no sense guys. This engine needs more air...
i had the same alfa only a 2.2 jts. the knob of the shifter did exactly the same noise . no problems with my egr, only my waterpump gave out at 80000km. it's a car that you have to take care of. its and alfa so yeah all you should know. i think i also had a problem with the passenger door handle those are fragile. and i think I had some electrical quarks will the window open or not today type of stuff.
should also run a can, or maybe two cans , of Liqui-Moly Intake De-carb Cleaner through the intake. that should clear a large amount of caked-on crap from the back of the valves and the intake runners...
I used to have AR159 2.4jtdm. I loved that car so much. Also 5 cylinder engine is really masterpiece. 200kw is "easily" achievable with great reliability ❤
That spec is just his senna on replay. The dark blue always looks weird contrasted to light blue. Make the contrast a dark grey or black and it would be so much better.
Come on Mike, you of all people shound know a topline figure is meaningless, show us the curves one overlayed over the other ! Looking very forward to the rest of the series
Brera 2.4 JTDm makes stock +-160 -170hp to the wheels and 200hp to the crank. The 3.2 V6 makes 208-220hp to the wheels and 260hp to the crank...... so you already made a huge improvement.
Note sure the 3.2 V6 busso ever made 260bhp from the factory. Only the 3.2 GTA got the full 250PS and others ( 166 + GT) more likely 240PS . The more common 3.0 24v had 226 bhp.
The compressor wheel on that turbo will be absolutely annihilated, probably looks like the back side of a spoon after eating all that air filter material, stones, and whatever else the induction pipe could get it's hands on. I have absolutely no doubt that this car made no more than 0.1 bar of boost 😂
