got mine brandspankin new for $50 shipped lol and it is the real deal and it came with the recirc kit as well

 

damn i need to see if i can find a recirculation kit for it...do you still get the sound though, i thought that recirculating the air back into the intake wouldn't give it the same sound as if it was released into atmosphere?
Oh and did yours fit into the piping where the original BOV was? mine was smaller and i have no clue how to put it together. It came in two separate pieces, think you can email instructions or something? Thanx!
by the way this is what came with the kit:



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one more thing some of the recirculation kits that i've been looking at say that the kit doesnt come with a VPC...is this something i need?

 

Is exhausting to atmosphere really all that bad for your car? Ive had a BOV ex. to atmos. on my Talon TSi for about 2 years and Ive never really noticed it DECREASING my performance per se...

 

The ECU in the car measures how much fuel to pump in based on how much air is coming in through the intake (air/fuel ratio) and it's programmed based on the fact that the excess air form the BOV is recycled back into the intake. When the excess air that is released into the atmosphere doesn't go back the computer doesn't take that into account which could result in your fuel being too rich...doesn't necessarily mean that your car will have a problem but on mine it starts to idle funny and shutdown unless a little pressure is being fed to the pedal, might be different on your talon, plus the sound of the turbo doesn't really mean ALL that much to me...scares potential money away when they hear the turbo hahaha.

 

yes... your causeing it to run pig rich when ever the BOV opens.