> I wonder if somebody is confused as to what we are talking about? I have never
> seen an egr valve on a V8 that was connected to the exaust system. The only
> ones I ever have seen were mounted on the intake manifold and picked up exhaust
> gas from the heat riser ports in the center of the heads. I am not sure the
> barrel type magnum manifolds have any place for one. The older non magnum
> models probably do though. Another thought about egr if you do have one is that
> they do not seem to work if you dont have some exhaust restriction back
> pressure. I put headers and straight exhaust on a truck one time and the
> computer kept putting bad egr codes out and after replacing the valve we found
> out that no backpressure= no egr action. I do agree that they hurt performance
> but on sold engines blocking the egr leads to detonation unless you retard the
> timing which hurts performance also. I still cant find one on my R/T. Jim in
> Waco
>
> > Yeah, the 97 have one. Ive blocked mine off in the past, it actually helped
> > when I switched from stock to dual exhaust. My exhaust guy showed me the
> > difference, I didnt believe him till I did it. When I got my headers I
> > unblocked it. Havent tried it blocked with the headers yet.
> > Eric
> >
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