Dynamic EGR (egr on warmup) questions

robnitro

Veteran Member
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Jan 19, 2004
Location
NYC area, NY
TDI
2001 Jetta TDI GLS silver
Hi,
As the winter rolls in, I have been thinking about dynamic EGR. Recycling hotter exhaust gasses in in low loads seems like it would preserve a lot of the heat loss on a cold start.

I can do it via tune, or wire up the N18 (at 6v or so perhaps 50% cycle) to my coolant glow plug switch/thermostat. With VCDS I can plan what kind of voltage to feed the N18 for a certain flow.

One concerns I have about using EGR when cold:
-Egr gases probably condenses more when cold. I don't believe how the tuners that do it can say that this prevents clogging.

Has anyone compared short trip/stop and go trips with no egr vs dynamic egr/stock egr?
 

slamhouse

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Oct 3, 2011
Location
Stanwood, WA
TDI
2006 Jetta TDI SE
Egr has little benefit when cold as you mentioned, the cold gasses condense and contribute to soot clogging in the intake.

The person to talk to would be Keith over at green diesel engineering as he is very knowledgeable in the diesel field and can answer your question.

I do however like the dynamic idle offered by Malone tuning and wish I had this as it incredibly.speeds up warm up.
 
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