I've just bought a spare EGR (ASR engine).

I'm hoping to get the internals removed and the hole welded up to provide a clean straight through (as seen previously on here).

Can anyone on here provide this service?

Thanks

Be easier to chop the flange off and weld a pipe on

Not sure what you mean exactly?

if you put a short bolt/screw thro' the exhaust blanking plate outside to in---then just fill the hole with epoxy

Not sure what you mean exactly?

something like this (image blatantly robbed of the internet)

That's an EGR delete, I don't want that a I want to keep it OEM looking and want to keep my ASV.

The problem is your asking somebody to weld Ally, which is a hard job in the first place, even harder so that it's cast ally which will be full of crap and make the job harder to do.

Why not just blank it off at the manifold? and map it out? Or turn it down via vagcom?

That's an EGR delete, I don't want that a I want to keep it OEM looking and want to keep my ASV.

it's hidden under the engine cover, so looks OEM. isn't the flap you want to remove for the ASV?

To be honest I haven't given it a huge deal of thought as I was under the impression it was a fairly common and easy thing to do?

I'll dig out the threads where users have done this and contact them direct.

I don't want to go down the delete route as you lose the ASV.

I'm going down the pipe blank and mapped out route, and was gunna do this on top to make it a proper job, as (already mentioned) I thought it was an easy job.

The problem is your asking somebody to weld Ally, which is a hard job in the first place, even harder so that it's cast ally which will be full of crap and make the job harder to do.

Didn't know this, thanks for the info.

Why not just blank it off at the manifold? and map it out? Or turn it down via vagcom?

Just to confirm, on an ASR engine it's a vagcom adjustment, rather than a map tweak like BLT?

I'm not too sure on this to be honest. I thought it could be mapped out on both. But someone else will be able to confirm this

Thought about buying one of these and still you retain the ASV?http://www.darksidedevelopments.co.uk/products/darkside-1-9-8v-pd105-2-0-16v-tdi-pd-ppd-and-cr-egr-delete-race-pipe.html this is what I will be going for eventually or is it the visual aspect you want it to look OEM that's more important?

Thought about buying one of these and still you retain the ASV?http://www.darksidedevelopments.co.uk/products/darkside-1-9-8v-pd105-2-0-16v-tdi-pd-ppd-and-cr-egr-delete-race-pipe.html this is what I will be going for eventually or is it the visual aspect you want it to look OEM that's more important?

that's for a BLT engine.

This is what I was referring to:

http://www.briskoda.net/forums/gallery/image/457-wingnut-mod-egr-delete/

Yeah I get you now. The ASV and EGR are in one unit on your engine as opposed to separate on the BLT.

Ah right I see, I thought your's was a BLT engine hence the above suggestion by myself.