a Friend emailed this to me from an Audi forum.. thought I'd share it with you all. What was he thinking of?!

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.

 

WTF, Sucking Sand into Engine?!?!?



tell him to sucking some Soap Water to rinse out the sand.

 

can you find out where that post was made? I would love to see the responses. I wondering if the guy was even for real.

 

Heck I got all the way through a 50 lb bag and it worked fine. Clean as a whistle. Probably feeding it a bit too fast thats why it stalled. It has to been done slowly for best results.

 

 

I wondered that too...My friend got it copy and pasted and just fwd'd to me. I'd like to know if it's for real too.

 

???????????? Suck sand into engine??????? Ummm... OK coo-coo coo-coo

 

Help! Can anyone tell me what to do! My buddy only does Hondas so he doesn't know much about Audis. [/B][/QUOTE]

One big freakin engine rebuild!!! That would solve the problem.

Did he everthink why they put air filters in the car for?? Or does he run the car without it??

 

 

http://forums.audiworld.com/a4/msgs/1567770.phtml

 

old news

http://forums.max-world.org/index.php?act=ST&f=2&t=882

btw, link is on the Max-World post.
I guess were just an elite group

MrGone

 

 

Sounds like BS to me, I bet the person who posted it made it up and was just trying to get a rise out of people. It worked.

 

Sand kills engines quick. I On my old '64 Falcon, I had the misfortune of having a badly casted block, which still had a pocket of casting sand inside it somewhere. After the last rebuild I did, which included boring the cylinders out .030 over, this pocket of casting sand became exposed, Sand worked its way all though the oiling system, chewing up everything in its path. The engine started to mysteriously consume oil, but I couldn't find a leak. It all came to a head when the grit from the sand caused one of the sleeve bearings on a connecting rod to slip, and the engine threw a rod. We were so shocked, because we had put maybe 3000 miles on the engine, so we pored over everything with a fine-tooth comb until we found out what happened. Sand had turned that engine into so much scrap metal.

 

Just when you think you know some of the dumbest people in the world...There is always one dumber

If this is a true story...the idiot deserves what he gets