Well, here's my "progress" lol...I keep running into situations. I got the EGR unbolted from the plenum last night, but couldn't get the two bolts that attach the tube to the EGR off...so I wiggled that bastard around for close to two hours before it came out. I held a religious ceremony under the hood of my car lol. I don't think a priest uses the word "God" more times in an hour than I did! But anyways, I get the whole thing out together, managed to snap the vacuum tube from the vacuum box thing on top of the plenum, the one that attached to the EGR...yay! So by this point I'm just exstatic lol, and I put the EGR in a bench vise, and after a lot of elbow grease, I got the tube apart. Then it hit me. I had Invasion1 burn me a custom chip; I also asked for it to be EGR deleted. Dammit! Lol so my troubles and vocabulary came from me doing work that had no reason to be done. I was slightly pissed, but you know what? I figured for shits and giggles I'd clean that tube out anyways lol. Hey, if it was already pointless, why not finish it off right? I then went to bed.

Now I'm trying to figure out the best way to plug the EGR line on the crossover, and the plenum.

Check this thread out.  It shows a way to plug your hole.  http://www.tgpforums.com/index.php?topic=3598.msg23623;boardseen#new

I personally want to keep my egr-

To me, I'd love to keep all the stock equipment, but after last night, that bastard will never see the back side of a plenum again lol.

why, you wiggled the egr until the tube cracked, huh?

the vacuum tube the comes out of the four plug on the top of the plenum just snapped when I moved it lol...the only one I found that's that brittle. I'm deleting the EGR because of how much of a pain in the ass it was to get it out, and now that I realize I don't need it, I figure what's the point of another headache?

Dont know where you live, but you will need that for emissions. If not, HAVE FUN!!!

I live in Minnesota, i.e., Screw The Environment Because Of All The Snow It Gives Us...lol. Minnesota has no emissions testing.

Yeah MN says "Screw Emissions" lol.  I live in MN too and I dont have a cat on my TGP.  Was like that when I bought it.

LOL i took the cat off too...i tell you what though, no cat and no mufflers makes it sound like a Chevelle 396 just pulled up

Ok, before she gets put away for the winter, I want to address the tranny issue, or what I believe is the tranny. When I go from a dead stop, it should have lots of power, even squeal the rubber. Nope. It's slow, and a slow accel in first, then it hangs onto the high rpms before shifting into second, sometimes I manually shift it because Im afraid that it holding onto the high rpms will hurt it or worse. In second, it picks up speed, and third and fourth are fast...now, my rack is bad and the car rattles like spray paint in Brooklyn, so I don't push it much past 60. Whenever I maintain the normal speed limits, anywhere between 30 and 45, and then accelerate, it slams into the next gear, whether it's third, I don't quite know, but I believe so. Occasionally, but very rarely, it will shift nicely. Now I just had a tranny filter change and the complete T-Tech flush, brand new lower and upper motor mounts, many new parts listed on the other page.

Just so everyone is aware, as if you weren't by now lol, there are two major problems with my TGP: the engine miss, and the now mentioned tranny issue. I have the check valve on, correctly. I was recommended by an Advance Auto person today that it could be a transmission solenoid, or a torque converter, or the modulator, or....lol I think they just want money, but I'd appreciate recommendations if there are any, or anyone wh has a similar problem, or had, please let me know so I'm not alone lol. Thanks guys!

I swear man, you drop in some L36 injectors, and both your problems will be solved. Fixed both on my TGP when i replaced mine.

Ok, the thing is I just had the injectors blown out. Pulsed or whatever they call it. Shouldn't that have done it?

Grinders , I'm considered a newbie but actually I've own my car for 4 years and my car has always had this problem and have been in and out of transmission shop, and only one, has given me the best information yet. He said we have a sticking valve in our valve body which cost me $ 2500 to get unstuck the last time, now its doing it again  :icon_evil:. I bought a VCR tape from a company that has step by step proceedure on how to repair our transmissions, and during the part about the valve body, it says #1 rule don't try to attempt removal of vavles. So whats this guy do , he takes a rubber mallet and looses the valve. :icon_neutral: But soon I won't have this to worry about , I have my 5-speed on stand. Hope you do

I answered this question earlier, So I will quote...

Quote from: grinders_18 on October 27, 2006, 12:33:35 PM
Ok, the thing is I just had the injectors blown out. Pulsed or whatever they call it. Shouldn't that have done it?

Quote from: pontiac6ksteawd on October 13, 2006, 07:40:19 AM
Blowing out your injectors, if they are bad, is not going to help you I dont think. These injectors had a issue with the internal windings. And once one goes bad, it takes out all 3 of them on that bank. My suggestion of replacing the injectors with some L36's is still where I think you need to go. I had so many issues with my car, it finnally got to the point where the car wouldnt start, and I had to be towed home. I OHMed out the injectors, and sure enuf, 1 on the front bank, and 1 on the back bank were bad. Went to a junk yard, found a low mileage L36 GENII and snagged the injectors. Installed them, and it run so perfect I was amazed. Had a freind that was able to get me some brand new L36 injectors, and I installed them. Now my only problem is that since I dont drive the car much, that it just sits collecting dust. And when I took it to the track 2 weeks ago, it fouled out my plugs. So a MAJOR tune up is in order now.