thinking about blocking my egr on my 85 22re. good or bad? did it on my old 83 22r and it ran a little better and a little hotter but not very much.

 

Meh ide only do it if you have a problem requiring you to replace EGR parts...other than that it seems to be waaay to big of a pain to do it on an RE

 

pain because hard to run right or block? mine is only a few bolts and a vac line to the cold start sensor.

 

It's easy and you won't be sucking carbon in your engine. I made block off plates from some aluminum plate I had laying around and then Sea Foamed the intake after. I have to pass smog every 2 years because California wants its air clean and fresh like a spring meadow, so I made it easy to reinstall for the probe. I noticed some light pinging and went to 89 octane which took care of it. I want to find a way to filter the PCV line so the intake and valves stay clean and free of oil vapor.

 

ok gona get the plates. should i get the crossover block plate to. dont need it to block it off but would it help with heat or anything?

 

Whats the crossover plate? If you have a bench grinder and/or a Dremel, just go get a piece of reasonably thick aluminum and make the plates yourself.

 

this seems like a lot of work for no benefit. If your truck ran better with no egr than your egr was leaking or your vacuum lines were hooked up wrong. The egr only works at light cruise speeds and helps reduce the combution chamber temps. You could actually burn a valve with no egr system. The egr does not suck carbon. It recirculates exhaust and uses it as a inert gas to lower combustion chamber temps.

 

Smogman, how many valves have you seen burned from not having an egr? egr systems are an archaic way of taking away a little bit of emissions away at the expense of the engine's life span. Haven't you ever taken off an egr and seen the clotted up black egr output that drops loads of carbon into the manifold or even looked inside a 22re manifold to see what the egr does. Its like a pipe going from your butt and taking 15% of you poo and feeding it back to you. I guess you like the air injection system on the carb models too, which cools the valves down right! I took my egr off and turned my afm wheel 2 notches rich and it gets better mpg than with the egr! Emissions control in California is just another way to control people by the gov't and create jobs like the one you have while ruining cool cars. Keep riding that gov't lama and telling people what they are doing is wrong.

 

WeenieHutjr. Dude, you rock! Well said, well said.