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Old 01-09-2009, 11:00 AM   #1
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Default Flame Alert, How not to Port and Polish your car

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http://audiforums.com/forum/showthread.php?t=80267


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Exclamation Hey guys, please help with my mods gone wrong.....
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.
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Old 01-09-2009, 11:02 AM   #2
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Seriously?


Get out.

The flame alert's on you, bozo.
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Old 01-09-2009, 11:03 AM   #3
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not helping nj's cause. flame alert is not just a catchy title.

...out edit'd by the matrix...
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Old 01-09-2009, 11:03 AM   #4
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oh crap, any techs want to help me out, I think I followed those directions wrong?
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Old 01-09-2009, 11:05 AM   #5
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Troll? Sounds more like a story from the Honda forums.
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Old 01-09-2009, 11:05 AM   #6
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Original thread on audi forums:

http://audiforums.com/forum/showthread.php?t=80267


and the post:

Exclamation Hey guys, please help with my mods gone wrong.....
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.
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Old 01-09-2009, 11:06 AM   #7
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Old 01-09-2009, 11:09 AM   #8
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Old 01-09-2009, 11:09 AM   #9
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No.

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