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Engine Specific Info and Questions => Non VW Group Diesel => Topic started by: nokivasara on January 20, 2008, 11:23:47 am

Title: Lucas IP
Post by: nokivasara on January 20, 2008, 11:23:47 am

Does anyone know where to find good information about tuning Lucas IP's?
Not necessarily for more power but how to adjust fueling and idle, maybe some exploded views etc.

I´m hearing all this crap about them so I want to learn more, either to prove them wrong or to understand what´s so bad about them.

Title: Lucas IP
Post by: nokivasara on February 28, 2008, 09:13:39 am

No one seems to be familiar with these  :?
I have a Skoda Pickup that has a Lucas IP, and would like to read a bit about them..
When it fails or starts leaking, which should happen any day now according to their reputation ( :wink: ), I´ll replace it with a Bosch. And then I´ll throw in the manifolds + turbo from a AAZ...

Title: Lucas IP
Post by: smutts on February 29, 2008, 03:10:23 pm

I might have something for the Rotodiesel. 1950's vintage. :D But I like your solution better.

Title: Lucas IP
Post by: Sierra94 on April 30, 2008, 05:06:08 pm

Nokivasara:

Chech the swedish skodaforum on http://www.skodaklubben.se/forum/detalj.asp?TradID=12273&ForumID=4#topp

//Sierra94

Title: Lucas IP
Post by: anto on July 02, 2008, 06:29:14 am

Alot of peugeots in Europe came with the lucas pump....my 306 dt had one till i swapped it for a bosch.
Any questions fire away, ive tuned mine so no a little about them.

Could never find much literature with regards them however.

Title: Lucas IP
Post by: gigaz2 on July 15, 2008, 05:01:58 pm

a picture with arrows pointing to the most important settings would be super :D

Title: Lucas IP
Post by: nokivasara on August 03, 2008, 02:33:38 pm

Quote from: "anto"

Alot of peugeots in Europe came with the lucas pump....my 306 dt had one till i swapped it for a bosch.
Any questions fire away, ive tuned mine so no a little about them.

Could never find much literature with regards them however.

I found a brittish forum that had a description on how to increase fueling on it. It also makes the timing more advanced at the same time.
That made a big difference in power, the performance is better than in my previous Passat Eco-diesel before I tweaked it and it got better mileage too, probably caused by the advanced timing.

Do you happen to know how to increase the max RPM's (governor mod) on a Lucas? It cuts out the fuel really abrupt, it´s like hitting the brakes....

Title: Lucas IP
Post by: jtanguay on August 03, 2008, 11:55:32 pm

if it's anything like the bosch, the pump cover needs to be taken off to get at the governor.

Title: Lucas IP
Post by: gigaz2 on August 04, 2008, 04:31:14 am

Quote from: "nokivasara"

I found a brittish forum that had a description on how to increase fueling on it. It also makes the timing more advanced at the same time.
That made a big difference in power, the performance is better than in my previous Passat Eco-diesel before I tweaked it and it got better mileage too, probably caused by the advanced timing.

Do you happen to know how to increase the max RPM's (governor mod) on a Lucas? It cuts out the fuel really abrupt, it´s like hitting the brakes....

can you post a link to that info?

Title: Lucas IP
Post by: nokivasara on August 04, 2008, 08:22:47 am

I don´t remember what forum it was, it´s been months since I found it...Search the net for Peugeot and MG-diesel forums, I think that Ford Escort has a Lucas IP too, there ought to be some Ford Forums in the UK!

Found this, it has a pretty good explenation about the max fuel setting:
http://www.club-306.com/guides/306_turbo_tuning

It says that the max revs setting also raises the point where the rev limiter (governor?) kicks in, is that really true?