[DeTomaso] NPC: Engine mod gone wrong...

Garth Rodericks garth_rodericks at yahoo.com
Thu Apr 1 14:20:32 EDT 2010


Hey guys, please help with my mods gone 
wrong..... 
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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 
exhaust 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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