Navara ZD30 Vs Patrol ZD30

As far as can be discerned from the outside they are the same. As you say minus the intercooler.

As far as I know the gearbox is a lighter one as well so maybe they just wanted to de rate the motor a bit to make it easier on the gearbox.

Same motor but no intercooler means less air in cylinder, means less fuel injected, means less of a bang in combustion chamber means less strain on small motor.
Possibly the Navara goes and is designed about right for the size of the engine where as the Patrol just seems to go too damn good for the weight it is pushing and the size of the engine.
I've got customers with Navaras pushing 100 000 km and they have been not regularly serviced and are going fine and I have customers with impecably maintained service records and they still went bang.
One of lifes mystery's.
The only issue with Navaras to date is the timing chains are a bit rattly but when you pull them down and see how big they are, you can understand why they would easily stretch as they aren't very big. I have only heard of one failing to date in a patrol so that is an isolated incident.

Cheers
120scruiser

and navara's have a smaller turbo I am led to believe..but you wouldn't know it when driving one.

Many thanks for the replies.