i bought an EGR delete from here on a group buy, all well and good.

I took the EGR off, placed the blanking plate on top of the old egr pipe with two bolts, then bolted up the actual egr delete pipe.

All was fine until around a month or so later and i realised she was making a bit of a wooshing noise on acceleration, getting worse and worse when progressing.

lifted the bonnet and i noticed soot everywhere! brilliant! the corrugated section of the egr pipe had a huge hole in the side.

so i spent last night finding where the egr pipe comes off the manifold, and putting the blanking plate there. I also noted that the pipe that comes from the manifold to the bottom of the egr cooler had two pretty major splits that looked like theyd been there a while. So long story short i'd been loosing a lot of precious turbo spinning exhaust gasses to the atmosphere for probably some time before i even fitted the EGR delete.

Tip - when fitting the egr blank dont do what i did and blank off at the top of the pipe, get the car up in the air, take the old egr pipe off from the underneith and blank it at the manifold. Takes a tad longer but its so worth it!

This is on a BLT engine isn't it?

Yes indeed mate

Tooo late for me! I did the exact same on my asz. Although mine only lasted about an hours journey before sounding like a tractor lol. Check it hasn't melted your vac pipes above as it did on mine

I'm getting this too - so the blanking plate just fits straight onto the manifold on the ASZ as well?

Edited 28 April, 201313 yr by travs

Yes

Yes it is a bit awkward to get to but its quite straight forward

So I understand the blanking plate goes on the manifold at the bottom of the EGR pipe, but what goes on the top of the EGR pipe (the bit that used to be connected to the EGR itself)? Is it OK just to leave it open, or get another blanking plate to put on it?

That's off. Chuck it in the bin. It used to connect the exhaust manifold to the egr. Lazy way is to disconnect at the top and blank off. This way discussed is to take the pipe off the car and blank where it used to connect to the manifold. With the EGR delete, there's nowhere for it to connect to and you've just blanked off the other end. Therefore, it is entirely redundant.

At least your intercoolers are clean? .......

When mine snapped it melted my brake fluid cap....very nearly a serious fire lol!

Be careful guys, blank at the turbo!

Biiiiig split in the accordion section. Please let this be the end off troubles...

That's off. Chuck it in the bin. It used to connect the exhaust manifold to the egr. Lazy way is to disconnect at the top and blank off. This way discussed is to take the pipe off the car and blank where it used to connect to the manifold. With the EGR delete, there's nowhere for it to connect to and you've just blanked off the other end. Therefore, it is entirely redundant.

Fair enough. What do you do with any coolant hoses that would have gone to that pipe? Block them up with something like the bungs you can get from Auto Silicone Hoses?

I guess you'd need to join them mate? It's probably an in and out hose as part of the loop!

does blanking the EGR cause engine management lights or anything or can you simply do it without plugging into a pc ?

Fair enough. What do you do with any coolant hoses that would have gone to that pipe? Block them up with something like the bungs you can get from Auto Silicone Hoses?

I guess you'd need to join them mate? It's probably an in and out hose as part of the loop!

There aren't any coolant hoses to the pipe I'm talking about - the one that feeds exhaust gases to the egr...see here:

http://www.briskoda....-of-egr-delete/

I had exactly the same split - sounded ridiculous as a massive exhaust blow. Car also ran like a non-turbo. Hoping it hasn't done anything to the turbo although if its pre-turbo I'm guessing it hasn't?

Car feels a tad sharper - don't know whether this is down to the EGR delete or the fact that I suspsect that the pipe may have had a bit of a split in it previously and therefore I may have been losing a little exhaust gas.

Edited 29 April, 201313 yr by travs

I guess you'd need to join them mate? It's probably an in and out hose as part of the loop!

Is that where the Darkside pipe comes in (this one)? Completely replacing the EGR cooler?

This must be you guys with your BLT wizardry. None of that on the ASZ engine, I don't know anything about the EGR cooler or coolant hose surrounding it, there's just the exhaust feeder pipe, and the inlet from the intercooler. In which case I can't help you on that one I'm afraid. You'll have to look for a how-to on the BLT engine and see how it differs I guess; sorry about that.

I had this noise after couple days with egr delete. Read this thread and just been out and removed pipe and blanked off at manifold. Still get a noise but doesnt seem as loud what are chances it could be something else?

Well it could still be this blanking plate. Can't remember but I have a feeling that mine was not entirely flat. Try taking it off and turning it over to see if it mates up to the exhaust manifold better perhaps? Also, did you have a gasket supplied to fit between the EGR delete and the inlet manifold? If not, you may be leaking there. I know some people haven't before...

Yeah all gaskets on I will double check all nuts and bolts and clean connectors if i get chance today. Thanks for input

No probs - Do continue to feedback mate - nothing like coming across a thread that is similar but doesn't reach a conclusion. Well apart from shooting yourself in the eyes perhaps.