Does anybody know of a place to get the 214-5004 EGR valve for the 3.1 at a lower cost than the $275 that ACDelco is asking?

 

Yes. your local junk yard. If their anything like my hillbilly junk yards erery thing will be 5 bucks.

You might need the gaskets

 

180 bucks from gmpartsdirect.com

 

Fast RS beat me to it. BUt if you need it right now, it's 199 dollars from auto zone. And it comes with gaskets!

 

HOLY **** THATS NUTS!!!

Mine was $40...

 

fly89gta,

That would be becuase you have an '89. The 3.1L engines ('90 - '92) have the digital egr vavle and cost a but load of money!

 

I need a EGR ive just been putting it off would a bad EGR cause my CAT to go? This month sux with my car i have to fix it to pass somg then smog it then pay friggin tags on it all by aug 20

 

Yes a bad egr could clog a catalytic converter. I clogged two on my "other" F-Body -- Dodge Aspen

 

Have any of you 90-92 3.1 guys looked into retrofitting a vacuum operated EGR system onto your cars? I think even your passenger side exhaust manifold is the same as on the 2.8's. What wires on the 3.1 control the EGR?

I'm so glad I have a vacuum-operated valve...

 

Therre are 4 wires on it.
Any one know why a bad cat would make my car smell like sulfer?

 

i bought mine from autozone for 125.00 but the gaskets that came with it didn't even fit, i had to use my old ones. the junkyard wanted 50.00 and it worked for a week then died. just to help....

 

White89V6, $5? Cool! Start buying stuff and putting it on Ebay!

If the cat is bad, and isn't house trained, he might be pissing on your seats. Not sure why.. might have to do with the pellet bed being broken up, and "burning" instead of working?

As far as I know on the EGR system, there's two wires going back to the computer. One energizes the EGR solenoid, and the other is the feedback from the EGR Diagnostic Switch. (The other two are either ground or power). So that is a total of 4 wires.. if I remember this weekend, I'll see if I can get the colors and functions up of the 85-89 2.8 vacuum-operated EGR system.

Unless of course someone beats me to it, I wouldn't mind, because I have this feeling I'll forget (as usual) to look it up this weekend.