I recently bought a car from a friend that i've been interested in for a long time. 97 240sx with an SR20DET swap. I drove the car from NYC to southwest Florida straight through with no issues, and my friend hasn't had any issues with the car. He's put 5000 miles on the swap and it's been garaged kept and he hardly would take it out in the 4 years he's owned it (14k miles on it since he bought it when it had the stock KA in it). This is my first turbo car and also my first manual car. I have a 2006 Scion xB and a 1991 Mazda Miata hardtop.Anyhow, he showed me that the stock BOV is still in place underneath the fusebox. The line from the BOV to the "cold pipe?" going into the throttle body is hooked up, and the other same size line from the BOV to the intake itself (behind the MAF) is hooked up.
A friend of mine down here in FL looked at it (he has a MKIV Supra NA-T) and showed/told me that the vacuum line is not hooked up. He also said i should look into taking the stock BOV out and capping the other 2 lines that are connected cause he can't see why the stock BOV is needed. When my friend that i bought the car from showed/told me about the stock BOV still being there i asked him why couldn't i just take it out and run and connect the two lines leftover together, he said most people do that in some way but he didn't like the look of it so he just left it how it was.
Another friend told me that maybe the stock BOV could be leaking under higher boost, even tho it's set up to recirculate he said usually stock BOVs will leak out beyond certain PSI's.

I don't really know much about turbo setups but it seems to me i should be able to remove the stock BOV and cap off those lines or connect them to free up space and save some weight in the very least lol??