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

[Asa Jay Laughton]

You forgot the Catalytic Converter acts like a filter.  It's trapped  
all the sand and backed it up into the cylinders.  You're supposed to  
remove the exhaust from the cat back.

Asa Jay

Quoting Garth Rodericks <garth_rodericks at yahoo.com>:

> 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
> 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.
>
>
> Follow this link for some great April fools reading - the replies   
> are priceless:
> http://www.audiforums.com/forum/showthread.php?t=80267
>
>
>
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