TPI Questions

[Jeffrey R Muehl]

I was hoping someone would jump in here.

Do you have any evidence of the engine knocking without EGR?

I have the same question - do I want it or not?  I'm also not concern with
economy, only power.





>I'm lost, for a performance engine, do you want egr or not ?  When I built
my tpi 350, I pulled the egr valve and stuck >a blanking plate over the
hole instead, oh, I also put the little metal plates in the manifold
gaskets where the egr is >meant to breathe through.  Was this a mistake (I
don't care about economy, only power)?>>
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>Dan     dzorde at geocities.com
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>The EGR valve is still present and connected, but doesn't actually do
>anything since there isn't a supply of exhaust gas to the valve.
>
>Grounding the EGR feedback wire will set off the SES light (it simulates
>the EGR being stuck in the open position)
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>Leaving it disconnected will also occasionally set off the SES light
(there >are a few cases where the ECM will command the EGR to actuate, then
look to >see what happened.)  Fortunately, temps down here are high enough
that this >doesn't happen often.  (been about 4 months since the last time
the code >went off) It will also clear itself within a few minutes of
driving.
>
>Someday I'll have an EGR flange welded to one of the exhaust headers to
>supply external EGR.. but it's a low priority.