If the EGR had more than 30k miles on it, I'd do it anyway. As far as the stock intake goes, I tow a big heavy a$$ tractor and I have a CAI and headers to free up my exhaust and have no problems whatsoever.

Any possible low end torque lost from freeing up the airflow is gonna be recouped and then some by about 1600-1800 rpms, so if you are feeling a sense of lost power much above that then I highly doubt it's the intake doing it to you...



If you don't think a gummed up EGR (or throttle body for that matter) will stick bad on some days and not so much on others, you ain't been around engined much...

 

you got a point , i dont rember much of the EGR days and glad i dont have one , but i still think its not EGR related . might be i have been known to be wrong

 

I'm not saying that it IS the EGR, all I'm saying is you can't just dismiss that it isn't. I've seen a throttle body and an EGR stick like hell from being gummed up on a hot and humid day and then act perfectly fine on a cooler less humid day. Humidity makes EVERYTHING stickier...

 

I would do a hard reset.