Hi all,

 

As above, i am doing this today, I have found some plastic bottle caps that will plug the holes nicely on the intercooler side, ( the ones on the air intake are done ) Would they be ok if i was to then fill em with fibre glass resin to make them hard and sturdy??

 

The open end would be facing out so no contaminant would get in.

Edited March 25, 201015 yr by 6VOLT

Why are you wanting to plug your recircs!?!?!

because they have those demon things called dump valves above em ... and they are leaking lol

Rip the DVs out and get some replacement recircs or Bailey recircs. :)

 

Dump valves/BOVs are a bad move anyway.

get rid of the dump valves then if they are leaking rather than remove your re-circs.

if you have bovs, your re-circs should have been removed anyways...

when i bought the car it had bov's and the recircs both connected. I have since just run the boost line to the bov's and left the recircs in place, but the recircs are leaking... so i am now doing what should have been done when the bov's were installed

 

Maybe a bad thread title, the recircs are being removed but the pipes are beiong blocked,

Edited March 25, 201015 yr by 6VOLT

Why are you worried about the recircs leaking if you've plumbed in the BOVs?

 

I'd still rip out the BOVs and get some good recircs. A much better solution.

because there will still be airflow going to the recirc valves.

 

I have read a few posts which describes a noise which i am getting with mine and that has been asociated to the recircs. so seeing as i have the dump valves the recircs are going.

Sounds like the person who installed them had no idea. The recircs should be removed or disconnected at least when installing BOVs.

 

I'd still rip out the BOVs and get some working recircs.

exactly lol. but i just needed to know if using the bottle caps would be ok lol

man you lot are confusing. so let me see if this is correct. who ever fitting the BOV's left the recircs on where the plug goes? and put the dump valves in place? using the recircs as the plug.

 

What you intend to do is take out the recircs because they are no longer Plugging the hole (IE leaking), and use a bottle cap, instead of going HERE and getting the proper thing?

 

Id say the recircs are still working, but they open when pressure builds behind them.

 

You have 2 choices, put the recircs back in place

Or

Leave the BOVs inplace and get some proper blanking plugs.

No dans Bovs are up on the hard pipes not down the front, so whoever installed them left the resircs in aswell.

You have 2 choices, put the recircs back in place

Or

Leave the BOVs inplace and get some proper blanking plugs.

 

thats what hes trying to do, but make his own blanking plugs basically mate:tooth:

Well folks!!!!

 

That was a laborious task of explaining lol.

 

The bovs i have are on the hard pipes and the old recircs were left in place down under the air filter. So today i removed them and have now put a kiwi boot polish lid filled with fibreglass resin and hardener to blank of the intercooler side of the pipes! They work a treat!

 

As for the pipes attached to the air filter pipe they have been blanked with a 22mm brass end cap from b&q. The original Recirc connections are going to be cut off and welded up for a proper fix.

 

Before the removal the car goosehonked a goodun, now no sound at all.

 

Thanks for the laugh any way :thumbup: