DIY port and polish

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Hey guys, I've got a 98 1.8T. I've had a k04 and chip for a while and wanted to get more performance. I was recommended to port and polish the intake and exhaust. We found out they used abrasive material to do it like gritty sand. So I got with my friend that tunes Hondas and we decided to try it ourselves. We got a bag of sandblasting sand and hooked up into the intake and started the car. We had to hold the gas so it would run. He wanted to let the engine suck in the sand through the intake so it would port it out and then push it out the ehxaust so it would port the exhaust manifold.
I was worried that it might cause problems but he figured it'd be OK as long as we didn't make boost and it get sucked in the turbo. After running the car and letting it suck in sand we got about half way through a 25 lb bag. The check engine light was on and the engine was bucking and kicking and sounding really weird. We stopped and hooked the car back up normal and took off the sand supply. We tried to start it again and it was really hard. Once started it couldn't idle and kept making weird noises. We took it out and drove it and it started to make scraping and knocking noises.
Help! Can anyone tell me what to do! My buddy only does Hondas so he doesn't know much about Audis.

http://www.audiforums.com/m_693578/tm.htm


All I can say is :lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol:

How can someone be that stupid, if you read further down the thread, one guy jokingly typed, maybe you should let the intake suck up some water to thin it out, and he actually believed it... lol
 
:lmao: That's got to be a joke? Please tell me it's a joke.
 
That has to be a joke... if it's not, oh man, how can you possibly think that's a good idea??
 
This is very old, it just got copied and pasted from the original post from a few years ago.
 
:rofl: Nobody could be so stupid as to suck sand through an engine, right?

*reads through the "________ Abuse" sections of Computer Stupidities, as well as the Darwin Awards.*

I take that back, I can believe it...
 
No way. I am shocked and speechless.:|

If this is real, help us all.

EDIT: But it isn't, so now we can all go back to laughing at lolcats.
 
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lmao, what a tool, and his friend doesnt know shit.
 
Right idea, wrong execution. Smokey Yunick used to use this a similar trick to get around NASCAR rules on hand porting of exhaust manifolds. Basically he'd take a very thick mixture of sand and water, and pump it back and forth through the manifold. Very similar effect to extrude honing without the expense.

And yes this is EXTREMELY old. Anyone ever post the guy who tried to put direct port nitrous injection on his S2000 by putting the nozzle in the valve/cam covers?

Edit: just in case. Here is the S2000 http://forums.s2ki.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=174075

For the uneducated, the nitrous has to be injected somewhere in the intake tract, the only thing he is doing is freezing the cams.
 
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^ It's also funny how the last post in that thread is about the guy with the sand.
 
im sorry but thats a joke. no living thing on this planet is that F#cking retarded! even my cats know not to do anything that stupid. but if he does do it.. please make sure he gets video XD
 
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