See post #3 in the linked thread for the low down from jrichker.To each his own
I will not be running an EGR valve on mine
Any EGR at anytime is a power loss
Your info is simply not accurate.
“The EGR shuts off at Wide Open Throttle (WOT), so it has minimal effect on performance.”
Or there are other places that say the same.
“The EGR valve is normally closed. There is no EGR flow when the engine is cold, at idle, or during hard acceleration. The EGR flow is at its peak during steady cruising under moderate load.”
How Exhaust Gas Recirculation (EGR) system works
What is an Exhaust Gas Recirculation (EGR) system in a car and how it work works. How the EGR system flow is monitored
www.samarins.com
Now if you want to take it off for some weight and tune without it for a max race effort, that’s understandable. I think everything missing that was throwing codes and irritating the stock computer on my car when I saved it from the track, both smog and EGR, weighs about 8 lbs, not including the cats.