Member Since: 17 Aug 2017
Location: Christchurch
Posts: 310
Welcome Sparkysteve.
My last D2 had ACE, my D4 doesn’t. The D4 handles way better anyway.
My assumption is that the D3/4 don’t need ACE as they are fully air suspended, and the setup of the airbags more than compensates for no ACE. I don’t know, but I imagine that the system basically replicates ACE by controlling the pressure in the airbags on each side independently - that’s certain,y how it feels when driving.
The change from the D2 platform to the D3 one brought some radically different handling, making ACE obsolete IMO.King of the typo.
MY11 D4 5.0 V8, Bournville, lots of goodies!
Now departed: '85 RR Vogue, '94 D1, '95 D1, '70 SIIA, '97 D1, '04 D2a. All V8, except for the SIIA - but that drank as much petrol anyway!
28th Apr 2018 9:01 pm
Leon
Member Since: 26 Apr 2014
Location: Leamington Spa
Posts: 434
Disco_Mikey wrote:
ARBs are £1k each
Valve block is £1k
Pipes are another £1k to replace
Be thankful you don't have them
Been their, got the t-shirt.
28th Apr 2018 9:18 pm
lynalldiscovery
Member Since: 22 Dec 2009
Location: Maidstone
Posts: 7274
I still reckon the way a D2 can corner pretty much flat with its tyres howling is damned impressive, whereas the D3 is a barge
28th Apr 2018 9:37 pm
Leon
Member Since: 26 Apr 2014
Location: Leamington Spa
Posts: 434
I'm just waiting for the thread when somebody asks if you can replace the TDV6 with a 300Tdi......I know it's not considered "kind" to say no these days, but no. Just no, ok? And if it's not ok, still no.
28th Apr 2018 9:52 pm
Disco_Mikey
Member Since: 29 May 2007
Location: Dundee, Scotland
Posts: 20781
lynalldiscovery wrote:
I still reckon the way a D2 can corner pretty much flat with its tyres howling is damned impressive, whereas the D3 is a barge
I reckon my D3 (and Defender for that matter) can outhandle a D2...My D3 Build Thread
Member Since: 07 Apr 2014
Location: Here
Posts: 13286
And my RRS fitted with Dynamic Response (the modern name for ACE) can outhandle all of them...
Visiting from rrsport.co.uk
2012 RRS SDV6
2008 RRS TDV8
"When you fire that first shot, no matter how right you feel, you have no idea who's going to die! You don't know who's children are going to scream and burn. How many hearts will be broken. How many lives shattered. How much blood will spill, until everybody does what they were always going to have to do from the very beginning: SIT DOWN AND TALK!"
29th Apr 2018 9:04 am
Pete K
Member Since: 15 Jan 2016
Location: GL
Posts: 10483
The equivalent year RRS has it.
29th Apr 2018 9:39 am
Pelyma
Member Since: 06 Jan 2005
Location: Patching, Sussex
Posts: 15496
NoDo$h wrote:
I'm just waiting for the thread when somebody asks if you can replace the TDV6 with a 300Tdi......
And live axles .....DS3 TDV6 HSE - Silver with Alpaca (old one) Gone
DS3 TDV6 HSE- Silver with Alpaca (new one) Gone
D4 HSE Lux - Montalcino Red Gone
Porsche Cayenne V8 Diesel S
29th Apr 2018 10:00 am
rrhool
Member Since: 28 Aug 2014
Location: Norfolk
Posts: 4442
NoDo$h wrote:
I'm just waiting for the thread when somebody asks if you can replace the TDV6 with a 300Tdi......
Can you???
I used to have a D2 V8 SE with ACE. I thought it was good, unless you changed direction too quickly, then it could't keep up. Driving round a very big roundabout, the ACE would load up against the tilt, until you turn quickly to exit the roundabout, the ARB would be loaded in the wrong direction. Made for some interesting handling characteristics!
Still, I did enjoy the D2Richard
D3 SE 2007. Triumph 2.5Pi 1973. Ferguson TEA20 1948.
Discovery 2 4.0 ES 2001- Gone
Discovery 1 300Tdi ES '95 - Gone
Range Rover Classic '79 - Gone
29th Apr 2018 10:26 am
Disco_Mikey
Member Since: 29 May 2007
Location: Dundee, Scotland
Posts: 20781
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