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Thanks Mike and everyone else who responded to my pleas for help, I sure understand the workings of this vehicle a hell of a lot better than I did a week ago. It was such a treat today to take it for an extended run on the highway (first day back to work) it feels great to run through the gears and have steady acceleration and no dogging at

3000 rpm which seemed to be about all it would rev before. Yesterday I took out the EGR valve and after looking at it for a bit realised that I was missing a hole somewhere, the exhaust inlet was coked over smooth, I priced a new EGR and found that it was a $150 Cdn hit. I went home and decided to try and clean it out and it seems to be working fine now. The TVS switch I couldn't find at the parts places is used in Ford vehicles also so I did manage to find a new switch. The vehicle use to sound like it was running hot before and now I just get the normal contraction noises that I would expect when I shut it down, that leads me to believe that the EGR is doing what it should.

I have 6 days off coming up and I plan to go to the local Pick Your Part and get myself an HEI GM distributor and beef up the ignition system. I know that some folks say the TFI Ford is a slightly better mod but hell the vehicle has 297,000 Km's on it. I also decided to go the GM route as I can find more pages with info on the mod and GM parts are very easy to find. I will take some pics of the project and let you know how I make out.

Thanks again.