*HOW TO* Blanking off E16SE EGR

[Mazz]

"The EGR valve helps your car more efficiently and completely burn fuel by recirculating a portion of your exhaust and running it through the combustion process again. This results in a cooler, more complete burn of the fuel which decreases you car's noxious emissions by prohibiting the formation of some harmful gases."

As a result, they get carbon'ed up and stop working, causing rough/lumpy idle and revving. By doing this you are by-passing the EGR valve.

They can be replaced, but are quite expensive, so after this thread (http://www.pngclub.com/forum/showthread.php?t=147367) and some googling I found you can blank them off. Vauxhall (http://i136.photobucket.com/albums/q187/davcohen/Picture.jpg) actually sell EGR blanking plates for some cars!

I tried the coca-cola (well Dr.Pepper tbh!) methold for a quick test..

Get a drink's can and consume the liquid goodness!

The EGR valve is hold on by 2 x 10mm nuts..

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y191/mrmazz/egr/CIMG5827_Medium.jpg

Remove it and make a template using the original gasket.

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y191/mrmazz/egr/CIMG5828_Medium.jpg

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y191/mrmazz/egr/CIMG5829_Medium.jpg

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y191/mrmazz/egr/CIMG5830_Medium.jpg

And re-fit! Simples :)

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y191/mrmazz/egr/CIMG5832_Medium.jpg

After doing this, the ECU was still on but revving up and idled and lot better than before, but after a long run the ECU light went off and has stayed off.

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EDIT : Leave the EGR connected/piped up too!

[Balley]

Well done mate, don't want to piss on your fire though but we have had the alloy can material melt from doing this... I normally use a piece of plating steel like a sill repair panel we seem to have lotsv of :)

[Mazz]

Yea, as i said this was just a quick test - just to see if was better, which it was!

[Danny s-p]

i like all be doing this to mine

[craig green]

Ditto the above. I did it with a piece of 3mm alloy shaped to the gasket & removed the valve entirely.

Assuming this is on an E16SE, you shouldnt suffer any fault codes as the EGR is in no way linked to any sensor/loom. Just put a screw into the vac pipe or blank it at the source.

[brainsnova]

ford transit burns through coke cans on the egr blank :d but i used 1mm alloy so probs lasts alot longer.