Emission Removal?

[carguy101]

I was wondering are there any benefits/problems if we were to remove the emission control crap like the charcoal canister ect. Will it throw any codes or anything? I know when I took all of that stuff off of my MGB it ran soooo much better.  I know it will clean up the engine bay just a little bit and a couple pounds but is it really worth it? Is there an air pump that blows air or anything? I live in a state where we don't have emissions or inspections and this will *hopefully soon* be a dedicated autox car anyways so I am not that worried about having to pass emissions that much anyways.

[BlueBMW]

I've never seen much benefit to removing emissions items. Just make sure they're functioning properly.

[carguy101]

Some cars have a egr valve which puts a gas back in the intake to reduce emissions by having less oxygen to burn, ie less power

[zmannz803]

None of that here, the engine's pcv system and throttle airbypass is totally closed(total recirc from crank case to metered intake air), and the emissions of the exhaust I believe are handled by the cat alone. They use slightly higher than normal overlap of the valves to assist in keeping combustion temps lower.

[cristimm]

I was wondering are there any benefits/problems if we were to remove the emission control crap like the charcoal canister ect. Will it throw any codes or anything? I know when I took all of that stuff off of my MGB it ran soooo much better.  I know it will clean up the engine bay just a little bit and a couple pounds but is it really worth it? Is there an air pump that blows air or anything? I live in a state where we don't have emissions or inspections and this will *hopefully soon* be a dedicated autox car anyways so I am not that worried about having to pass emissions that much anyways.

In order to remove canister purge valve and not throw any codes you must connect a 1kohm resistor in place of the valve. After that you can delete all the crap.