EGR or not

Moparteacher,
Thanks for all of the insight on how the EGR system was designed to work. Some of my components are questionable, so at the risk of contributing to air quality emissions, I have elected to eliminate them. I plan on blanking off the tvv port in the radiator, and am hoping that the if I disconnect the wiring to the solenoid that is mounted on the manifold it will not effect performance. I also am trying to determine if the stock distributor on EGR motors is different from those that came off of a non-EGR motor. If so I have a complete 1970 318 that I can take the distributor off of. Thanks again for the help.