Land Rover joined the turbo club in 1986 installing a Garret AI Research T2 turbocharger on the Ninety and One Ten, and sticking a Turbo badge on the back to boast the fact. That’s when turbocharger had exotic connotation suggesting indecent bolt on power. Twenty years on, no self respecting diesel would be without one, it’s become an integral part of the engine system.
The turbo can last the lifetime o your engine if it’s looked after, or can wreck your engine if it isn’t job is simply to force extra air into the engine. That’s matched by putting more fuel in, and the result is a bigger bang more power and torque.
That also puts added stress on engine components, which is way you can’t simply bolt a turbocharger onto a non turbo engine and expect it to live. Even the original TD engines struggled to hold themselves together against the power they produced, until crankshaft and conrods were beefed up.
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