Thread: Please explain??

I could probably knock up half a dozen of them in and hour or so.......and for considerable less than $139.00

While you're at it, perhaps someone can explain why they want $239 for a snatch block ....

I always thought gold was too soft for this application ..

Originally Posted by RobHay

I could probably knock up half a dozen of them in and hour or so.......and for considerable less than $139.00

so could I, but it was easier to post the link then try and explain what something I dont understand was.I wouldnt want to look like a tool, would I?

As it says, it blanks off the exhaust gas recirculation. The system is done for emissions. Blanking it off simply means that you get more clean air inducted into the engine and it is colder.

Originally Posted by PeterM

As it says, it blanks off the exhaust gas recirculation. The system is done for emissions. Blanking it off simply means that you get more clean air inducted into the engine and it is colder.

so its illegal, but it gives you a cleaner engine inside?

Originally Posted by crump

so its illegal, but it gives you a cleaner engine inside?

Well, I'm pretty certain it would render the vehicle unroadworthy, and there may even be specific laws against it. I don't know that cleaner inside would be how I'd put it - the main effect is to increase the oxygen content of the air being taken in, and reduce it's temperature (which means more air and hence more oxygen, the overall effect being to increase the available power, but at the expense of a higher combustion temperature, resulting in increased nitrogen oxides in the exhaust, which would bring them over the design levels - although since it was designed for European limits, I'm not sure how it goes for the applicable Australian limits, which were quite a bit less stringent when the TD5 was approved for sale here. But regardless of this, altering the EGR system is almost certainly illegal - there is no regular testing regime, so the system relies on banning alterations. But since there is no testing regime, your chances of getting caught are virtually zero - unless you get pulled over for something else and they decide to see what else they can find wrong!

John

Originally Posted by JDNSW

Well, I'm pretty certain it would render the vehicle unroadworthy, and there may even be specific laws against it. I don't know that cleaner inside would be how I'd put it - the main effect is to increase the oxygen content of the air being taken in, and reduce it's temperature (which means more air and hence more oxygen, the overall effect being to increase the available power, but at the expense of a higher combustion temperature, resulting in increased nitrogen oxides in the exhaust, which would bring them over the design levels - although since it was designed for European limits, I'm not sure how it goes for the applicable Australian limits, which were quite a bit less stringent when the TD5 was approved for sale here. But regardless of this, altering the EGR system is almost certainly illegal - there is no regular testing regime, so the system relies on banning alterations. But since there is no testing regime, your chances of getting caught are virtually zero - unless you get pulled over for something else and they decide to see what else they can find wrong!

John

soooo? Does it increase EGT's? And because its you John, and I know you really know your stuff, if it wasnt illegal would you fit one?

It looks like something this bloke would use just before a night in the bedroom.