Exhaust gas recirculation should be burnt!

[gldgti]

i think its a load of baloney TBH. you put in some exhaust gas to replace the nice oxygen rich charge air that you go to all the work of comrpessing and cooling - so you reduce the efficiency of the cycle as a whole, but your instantaneous nitrous emissions are decreased a bit - whoopy doo.

i cant get over the amount of nonsense that goes on with emission control.

just make the engine as high performing and efficient as possible, then REDUCE the capacity as much as you can!

[bluey]

Love the "lets use fire" concept of mechanical repair.

This is one area where you "mechanical" types wish you had a computer, as the 1.9 TDI guys in the USA just VAG COM the exhaust gas recirculation down to practically zero.[...]

This FAQ mentioned using VAG COM to up the air supply to prevent this problem, because EGR is otherwise important for NOX and temperature control.

http://tdiclub.com/TDIFAQ/

But how do we know VW hasn't already fixed it???

[gldgti]

hmmm. i now have DATA about EGT's.

a post in my power quest thread soon boys and girls