Can anyone itentify this item?

  1. Newbie Joined: Apr 2012 Posts: 4
    #1
    Hi

    I have an 02 plate vts and at the front of the engine just above the ex manifold there is a round black item with a diaphragm under the cover. It has a silver metal pipe running to it fron the right hand side of the head. The other pipe goes to another large mystery item behind the passenger fog light???!

    Any ideas?

    Thank you
  2. Saxperience Hardcore! Joined: Dec 2007 smurfland. Posts: 17346 Ex saxo owner.
    #2
    Could you get a pic please?
  3. Saxperience Post Whore Joined: Apr 2011 Posts: 9100 Amazon green VTR 16v, Inferno RS clio 182
    #3
    sounds like bits of the air pump pipework for the emissions regs on the later 16vs? Remove it if you want
  4. Super Moderator Joined: Nov 2009 Cambridge(ish), UK. Posts: 10581 BMW 5x M50d.
    #4
    Correct ^

    It's the EGR valve:

  5. Newbie Joined: Apr 2012 Posts: 4
    #5
    Superb, thanks

    Will it do any harm if I remove all this? Presumably it's the air pump behind the foglight and it's right where I want my sump guard bracket to to go.

    What about the connections onto the head?

    Cheers
  6. Super Moderator Joined: Nov 2009 Cambridge(ish), UK. Posts: 10581 BMW 5x M50d.
    #6
    RIP it all out. No problem.

    Iirc the hole in the head can be filled with a penny and some chemical metal
  7. Saxperience Forum Bum Joined: Jul 2010 South Wales Posts: 3078 ZX 16v, 205 GTI, 309 Goodwood, 405 MI16.
    #7
    egr?! but its not connected to the exhaust is it?
  8. Super Moderator Joined: Nov 2009 Cambridge(ish), UK. Posts: 10581 BMW 5x M50d.
    #8
    Everyone loves a smartarse...

    No it's not an EGR. It's technically a fresh air pump. Most refer to it as the EGR. Everyone knows what everyone else means.
  9. Infrequent Poster Joined: Oct 2012 Dorset Posts: 237 Citroen Saxo Furio 1.4l
    #9
    if its not an erg, whats the purpose of it?
  10. Newbie Joined: Apr 2012 Posts: 4
    #10
    That's great thanks. Do you know what the purpose of it actually is? It's coming out anyway but why the air pump? Emissions control I'm guessing...
  11. Super Moderator Joined: Nov 2009 Cambridge(ish), UK. Posts: 10581 BMW 5x M50d.
    #11
    Yes - emissions control and cat temperature improvements on cold start.
  12. Newbie Joined: Apr 2012 Posts: 4
    #12
    That's great thanks. Do you know what the purpose of it actually is? It's coming out anyway but why the air pump? Emissions control I'm guessing...
  13. Saxperience Post Whore Joined: Apr 2011 Posts: 9100 Amazon green VTR 16v, Inferno RS clio 182
    #13
    It pumps warmed air from above the manifold into the cylinder head I believe. It's obviously there to get the car through more stringent emissions control regulations but it's not really going to make any difference, earlier 16vs didn't have it fitted


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