[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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