egr block off plate

[blackdeathtrap]

Well now im pissed i had my car running perfect no knock perfect launches everything shoulda left it alone but you know how it gos. i pulled the egr off then put my new egr block of plate on and copper gasquet made it all pretty re dis att the vac lines even put cooper silicone each side of the gasquet for good measure worked fine at forst now i went for a drive seems the plate its causing major vac leak around the top were theres no bolt. any trick with out pulling manifold and welding tower shut. i was thinkibg maybe jb welding the plate to the manifold. sone obe must have an a trick.
As the turbo buick world turns

 

[Phoneguy]

Take the original hold down and squeeze the tabs together so that they are narrow enough to line up on the block off plate and bolt it on top of the block off plate. Its ugly but it works. If you can fab a piece of metal with a slight bend in it and drill a hole it will look much nicer. Good luck.

Bryan

 

[blackdeathtrap]

Sounds like the easyest way though il just paint bracket silver and forget about it

 

[rpoL98]

 

[blackdeathtrap]

Thanks for info fixed the issue
on another note did you benifit anything from raping fuel rail

 

[rpoL98]

"raping the fuel line" LOL! is that a statutory offense? JK!!

i don't know if there was a benefit from wrapping the fuel line, like a before & after E.T., or fuel temp in the rail... just seemed like a good thing to do since i had the insulation. i figure it doesn't hurt. i did it for one of my other cars, carbureted, where i was trying to eliminate fuel boiling in the fuel bowls, it worked for that one (along with some other heat isolation fixes).

the EGR plate is just a flat piece of scrap steel, cut to fit, re-used the factory clamp (& gasket, i'm cheap), hi-temp RTV. I looked at the nice billet block-off plates, and figured that there's serious potential for a vacuum/boost leak at the top edge since there's no clamping pressure there, didn't trust that design. more likely a boost leak since that would push out against the plate, but once the seal is compromised, then you have a vacuum leak too.

 

[blackdeathtrap]

I used my billet block off and the stock holder and im now im back on the road