I removed all the vac lines from both the talon (turbo) and my laser (2.0 NA). I just ripped the lines and solenoids out and blocked off the nipples on the TB and called it good. Both run fine.

 

So all you did was block off the nipples on the TB while leaving all the other nipples exposed to the atmosphere? What did you use to block off the nipples....I heard that people run a bigger vacuum hose in a loop to close up the nipples, but don't turbo cars have 4 nipples so they could just easily loop a hose over 2 nipples, crimp the hose, then run it to cover the other 2 nipples? I don't know how you would loop the nipples on a NA car since there are only 3 nipples. I would use plugs but I am afraid that over time they would blow off.

 

I got some vaccumm caps from advanced auto and put those on and used some real small zip ties to hold them on for the Talon. You shouldn't even really need to use the zip ties as long as the caps fit snugly since you dont have to worry about boost in the TB trying to blow the caps off.

And yea, I only blocked off the nipples on the TB, I just left the ones on the egr valve, thermo switch and ect. open since it doesn't really matter anyway

 

:edit: ditto ^^^

 

So what size vacuum caps would you deem acceptable for this procedure. Sorry for the post whoring.

 

I just got a bunch of assorted vaccumm caps at the store. I dont know what size they were exactly, sorry

 

I bought an assortment of cap ends at lowes for 3.99