Could my EGR be my problem

[moponys]

About 2 years ago I had removed my EGR tube that connects to my passenger side header and capped it off because it kept coming loose. (I think it was because of my intake spacer.) Then about a year later is when I got the car dyno tuned. When the tuner noticed the EGR was capped off, he suggested we just disable the EGR on the chip itself. I'm not exactly sure if the chip controls the function of the EGR opening/closing but will find out this Saturday when I have it re-enabled. The problems with the surging idle and dying when I put in reverse and drive didn't start until the tuner disabled it ;-(

He originally said it was because my Lunati cam and stock tq converter weren't matched up which sounds reasonable. But now I've put on a PI 3000 converter which should match my setup, and the idle problems and it dying when I put it in gear are still there. This is why I'm hoping the problems will go away by him re enabling my EGR on Saturday.

billheis,

I'll try your test too when I get my car out of the shop...

Thanks for the replies guys.

Tony