Thanks Sixto. Good point on just using a new EGR gasket - Duh! As for tieing into the ALDA line, I may do that but it just seemed like a nipple onto one of those plugged ports would be cleaner and pretty simple if I can find the right fitting. Eitherway it looks like a fairly straight forward job. I jacked up the car and took a look at the wastegate actuator and it will be a tight fit to get to it from the bottom but it looks doable. There is a darn oil line/hose right in the way and my hands are not exactly small. I hope the vac lines help but eitherway I'll convert it over eventually.

I know it's been discussed in the conversion thread but I am still trying to get my head around the pressure actuator vs. the vacuum one as far as when it opens and closes the wastegate. It is opposite and intrinically that seems like it wouldn't work but I'm going on faith here but if anyone can further explain the difference for when it is under boost and non-boost in these two systems and why the backwards set up works OK I would appreciate it. Anything to get that EGR and rats nest of vacuum lines and electric solenoids for flapper, wastegate actuator and EGR out of there seems like it's well worth doing. pardon my lack of understanding of the system here.

If this doesn't fix my drag/loss of power issue do any other thoughts pop into anyone's mind? My intake has the typical sludge coating in it from the EGR so I am not sure that isn't a problem too plugging up the ALDA line??? If I make the changeover, the next time I have to replace the glowplugs I'll have the intake boiled out to really clean it up. The last time I took it off to change the GP's it was a friggin mess of oily residue in there.