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Black smoke?
Hightower:
James,
I have done this to my TD5 as well.
The main side effect is that your engine will be breathing clean air and the inlet manifold won't be getting gunged up with oily residue.
As for emissions, I don't believe that NOx is currently part of the MOT, so nothing to worry about there.
jnoshea:
Sounds good to me. Where do I get a blanking plate from, and what exactly needs to be done to the intercooler manifold and pipes?
davidlandy:
blanked off my EGR sometime ago with a home made steel plate/gasket between the valve and the manifold - it all still looks the same as it did originally.
just passsed another mot with no problems.
benefits are:
that the gunge in the inlet manifold seems to be disppearing
it used to blue-ish smoke if let on idle for ages then revved - this has stopped
it now performs beter at low revs , especially when cold.
as for the nox,co2 - dunno.
Budgie:
--- Quote from: "jnoshea" ---Sounds good to me. Where do I get a blanking plate from, and what exactly needs to be done to the intercooler manifold and pipes?
--- End quote ---
The blanking plate is LR Part No ERR4698 and the gasket is ERR7173.
I got a set of silicon hoses from Alli-Sport so that made the job easier, other than that then you could get another long rubber pipe for the intercooler and cut the metel pipe so you retain the bend in it but loose the "T" section to the EGR valve.
davidlandy:
my small egr hose and the wiring is still on there
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