Thread: EGR kits,, do not buy!!!

Originally Posted by Bush65

You seem to be one mixed up person, and you come here and pass on a lot of misinformation. You also contradict yourself in the same post.

Originally Posted by DeanoH

I don't think theres any doubt that the LR people have filled his head with a lot of seemingly credible b......t, but as he said he's open to comment. I think the info he posted has been pretty well disected and shown to be incorrect.

Attacking the man and not the ball doesn't add constructively to the debate.

Deano

You're right, my bad.

I thought of replies to all the rubbish in the original post, and also recalled what was in another of post by the same person, then just had a brain fart.

I don't know if incorrect information was given, if it was misunderstood, and finally transposed poorly in this thread - probably a combination.

But the poster claimed to have done "after doing alot of reading and asking around ..." So should have been better informed and could have checked what the Land Rover people had claimed, before making such claims here.

I still suspect the poster has thrown his/her own interpretation and garnishing to what information may have been given.

Originally Posted by stig0000

since I own a td5,, as like most people who own a td5 I have thort about the EGR removal kits,, and reading allot about people that have done it an 'say' they get better performance with a EGR kit,


after doing alot of reading and asking around, and just completing a emissions training week at landrover training in Sydney, I have asked landrover about the td5 egr kits,, and with what we learned about emissions that the kits have 100% no effect on performance,

if you don’t know how egr works Google it, but in short it helps Bern one of the 3 main gasses in the exhaust from your engine, once of which is NOz, when this gas burns it cools the oxygen around it down,, cooling your combustion chamber down, which makes the burning of the fuel more efficient(sort of like when people NOS there cars), in turn better fuel consumption, and helps in the cooling of your engine,

the only way EGR will hinder a engines performance is if its faulty, an most cases stuck open, letting the exhaust into the manifold all the time, but other than that it has no effect on performance,

So if your like most people out there that is looking at the EGR kits for performance, don’t get it unless you have a egr fault, which in that case is better to get it fixed, not taken off,

As always im open to all comments,

Originally Posted by stig0000

I am only going off info that I have studied, an been tort to be a Tec on landrovers,
And not from a tafe, land rover them self’s, so if there wrong, the people that made and tested the engine are wrong??,

Err... I don't think Landrover are going to say anything themselves along the lines of "Oh yes, EGR is bad, bypass it, we were idiots to put it on in the first place". If its on the engine they built, they would say anything to justify it... true or otherwise.

Seano

I agree with the "Don't buy" sentiment.

I didn't spend a cent on mine!

ok the [ame=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exhaust_gas_recirculation]Exhaust gas recirculation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[/ame] article on this is quite good and almost complete.

i think the original poster has gotten his wires crossed and confused between a petrol and diesel motors.

Clean32,
I didn't look past the picture of the Saab engine in that article. Its a Saab 900 8-valve carby version with the carby sittng on top of the inlet manifold. Saab hadn't used EGRs at least up until 1995 but I don't know about later models though. Not worth looking at the rest of the article after that.

Originally Posted by Graeme

Clean32,
I didn't look past the picture of the Saab engine in that article. Its a Saab 900 8-valve carby version with the carby sittng on top of the inlet manifold. Saab hadn't used EGRs at least up until 1995 but I don't know about later models though. Not worth looking at the rest of the article after that.

should have kept reading down to the diesel bit

An EGR is just like the early bomberdoors with the air pumped into the exhaust set-up,it's just

That came out all wrong,the egr is a way to cheat the polution laws like the way bomberdoors had air pumped into the exhaust manifold to dilute the exhaust.A well tuned engine will always be better and the test for polutants is at a given rpm,say 2500 without the engine loaded so it is not accurate anyway. Pat