O/T EGR Valves
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After wasting two evenings changing the turbo elbow gasket on my 200sx I found the take off for what I asume is the egr valve on the manifold is also blowing, out of curiosity have been looking at stainless manifolds and have noticed there is no take off for the valve on these, is it necessary to have one?
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Shane

not really no. more there to lower the emission's but as I found on my vectra I just blanked mine off and no difference was noticed driving or on MOT.

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I've been running for a while with one on my passat not connected up as it was faulty, and all seems ok with out it mate.

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on the 200 jsut bung the manifold up, its a waste of space :)

always best to blank EGR's where possible, as there nothing but trouble. only issue is on some modern cars if the MAF sensor doesnt detect a drop in intake consumtion when it requests the EGR to open it throws a fault code :(

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Denis O'Brien.

The thing is, on modern cars, they will go to limp mode if disconnected. I've deattached it on my 99 530D and this is about the last it's possible to from BMW.

Edited by Vegard on 5th Oct, 2010.

Best to put a blanking plate an leave the valve electronically connected to keep the ecu happy :)

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To get to the union is going to be a mission as there is fu*k all room to swing a spanner on the thing to remove it and bung it. Gun GUM? pmsl!!
Shane