kman wrote: I tried an EGR delete by blocking the EGR passage into the block with a heat resistant solid gasket.
Saw no difference and I dont know if it gave me a code but I eventually took it off.
Cant say if it works or not since my vehicle was resistant to any success as some of us know.
Karl, as you seem to be repeatedly running into issues with success, there are only two possibilities to my reckoning, both leading to only one conclusion. You must be the source of your failures.
Please don't think me harsh, because we have had a long history and I appreciate your intelligence more than any other here can. The main issue I have found with the super-smart is they find their own intellect more than reliable. In fact, as they enter into a project, they may get a little guidance as to which direction they want to take, but at that point, they tend to take the bit into their teeth and run like the wind!
The same is true for the vast majority of people that get my training package. Most never read the manual in its entirety. They usually stop around the part where it describes how to cut The Groove correctly. But here's something you have all heard me say before
(and how TPTB have controlled the direction of our development!) "Consider only a PART of the equation, achieve only a FRACTION of the solution."
I have seen many people fall by the wayside because of an inadequate education. Many I have contacted after some time had passed without their active presence to find they had simply "Quit" when faced with failure. Please don't let that happen to you. If you
KNOW that something has helped others, yet you have been unable to achieve a like result,
DON'T QUIT!!!
Find out why. For that to happen, you must approach those who
HAVE been successful and ask for their input.
With the EGR delete, certain considerations must be made. First and foremost is the fact that it IS allowing fluid into the intake manifold. That means it IS increasing the pressure inside that region. As your
FUEL is delivered there, then it stands to reason that it
MUST make it harder for the fuel to vaporize, thus slowing the combustion process and forcing more energy into the exhaust where it is dissipated in the form of
HEAT, rather than creating motive force to drive the piston.
Considering this, then you must have missed something. It's nothing to be ashamed of, but you are the one that can turn yourself into a screaming cauldron of power! You have to start
(as do I) by admitting not only your genius, but the natural tendencies of that genius as applied to yourself that would tend to weaken or completely dissipate your results.
Look first at your processes and examine them for completeness. If you reach a stopping point, and are convinced that you did everything RIGHT, then you can be DAMNED sure you didn't if you didn't get the expected results!
For all of you that are being thwarted, remember this
"The ONLY way to FAIL is to STOP TRYING!!!"
Now, the EGR should not be blocked. This could cause MIL's in MANY applications. I suggest (as previously posted) something to attempt would be to allow it to vent into the intake air stream, but BEFORE the throttle plate. This would allow for flow through the system so for those systems with electronic monitoring of that flow, the ECU should not be negatively affected.
Keep going guys! I LOVE THIS!!!!
Ron