Well that was fun to read! I probably should have prefaced by explaining I live in Texas. I crack my windows in the morning and repeat “I love the smell of Napalm in the morning!” It makes me laugh... then I start my truck with its new set of true dual exhaust running through (2) instead of (4) “catalytic Magna glow converters” which look like big metal straws on the inside. It then passes through the Flowmaster 44’s to produce the sound of music to my ears. Now when I realized the EGR system was recirculating emission back into the very same engine cylinders that I'm trying to keep cool (with the help of the Volant cold air intake)I thought... that must have dawned on some genius while he was standing outside ******* in the wind. Anyone who signed off on installing a system that effects both the fuel economy and performance of a vehicle is frankly an idiot. If I were apart of that meeting I would have excused myself and asked the engineer politely of course to step into my office and explained he was f$&@ing fired.
In Texas it is punishable by a fine. It is not even classified as a misdemeanor. I don’t know where you live Adieu but here in the great state of Texas they don’t put cha in a cell next to John Wayne Gacy because your EGR system was some how “accidental” disconnected.
I had a feeling this conversation would somehow go that direction even though I specifically said “I understand it’s an emissions kind, government required, inspection needed whatever. That much I know, don’t need to know anything else.” What I was after was, will it or won’t it improve gas mileage and run better? I do believe it will.
O - and if you invest, in a let’s say SVT programmer for example... I’ve heard you can tell the computer to erase its little memory of the system ever being a part of the truck in the first place, like waking from a bad dream
Thank you all, I look forward to our next informative exchange of opinion.
