What is the thing that goes in between the carburetor and the engine? I'm not talking about a gasket it's the part that the egr mounts to. A regular carb mount gasket from autozone is too small. I don't have a cat on my exhaust so do I even need the egr?
Carb egr systems don't work half the time anyway and with any mods, they almost never work as designed. Earlier cars use a pcv type spacer that you could replace it with if you wanted to get rid of it... but I didn't say that of course...:16suspect The cat and the EGR are only related in the sense that some backpressure is necessary for the EGR system to work as designed. Removing one usually will not adversly affect the other unless the car barely passes emissions. If you have to pass a tailpipe test, the converters will usually suffice if you get a 3-way converter. If you have to pass a visual test, you have to leave it on. And Paul is on the money with the fed. Keywords to remember are "off road use". disclaimer
there are a couple spacers on flebay with out the egr, or you can just run what you have and leave the egr un pluged. go to orileys or napa and ask for the carb to spacer gasket and the spacer to manifold gasket.
As you just found out, I am sorry to say that most parts counter monkeys do not read the whole part description. No matter how easy I try to make it for them. As mentioned earlier there are 2 gaskets, carb to spacer, and spacer to manifold. on some cars they are the same part but on yours it must be different. And they may not stock the one you need but may have one that will work. I would bring in your old gaskets or atleast the spacer. that way you can check what they have listed before yo uleave or ask to go through the gaskets to find one that will work if they don't stock the part that is listed to fit. <--- 10 year Part counter guy, and now in Electronic catalog Department.
The 302 has an exhaust port (from the cross-over) that comes up to the egr spacer. You need to plug this port or the exhaust gasses will ruin your spacer. I drilled and tapped the port for a pipe plug and used a flush fitting pipe plug on my off-road 302. BTW- it is a federal offense to remove or disable any emmission device for a street driven car that carries a big fine and possible jail time.
