is this guy for real?

[y2blade]

http://www.audiforums.com/m_693578/tm.htm



For those who can't be bothered to click the link

On an Audi forum some guy asked

"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"

Edited by y2blade on Tuesday 13th November 11:57

[Adenauer]

"Are you f***ing retarted?" PMSL

[mulletmark]

I know people are generally stupid, but I can't believe that anyone could be that stupid. That's right up there with they guy that tried to water cool his home computer by mastic-ing all the holes and then filling it up with water.

[bigTee]

[Stubweiser GTI]

That's made tea come out of my nose!

[Deva Link]

I think it could well be true - in a similar vein:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7091904....

[bob1179]

That is awesome.

How thick are some people?

[Stubweiser GTI]

Deva Link said:

I think it could well be true - in a similar vein:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7091904....

Yeah I just posted that on here! It's hilarious isn't it? How much more of a stereotype American does he want to be!?

[Pablo16v]

Surely it's got to be hoax or someone trolling?

No one's THAT silly are they?

[Laird]

Impossible, anyone this stupid couldn't possibly pass a driving test......could they?

[r5gttgaz]

Anyone remember the chap who screwed his nitrous injectors into the rocker box on his car?

[Munter]

I saw a story very like this years ago. It appears that someone has decided to post it up again for some reason. Also look up the one where the guy trys to nitrous his S2000 by squirting it into the engine through the cam cover.

[thewave]

For those who can't be bothered to click the link

On an Audi forum some guy asked

"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"

[thinfourth2]

Actually i have heard of it being done to deglaze an engine

If done carefully with a N/A engine it should actually work with a very very fine sand and some careful cleaning afterwards

For large turbos we feed rice/crushed walnut shells into them while running to clean stuff of the turbine blades

[8Ace]

Oh dear lord. I am crying and making little snorting noises by trying not to laugh out loud in the office. This is even better than the idiot that welded extra blades to his turbo.

Chap who need not apply to MENSA said:

"We got about halfway through a 25lb bag"

[Parrot of Doom]

That has to be a joke

Anyone remember the guy who dropped his oil, then filled the engine with boiling hot water to 'clean it out' before putting the new oil in?

Or the guy who put a sock in place of his engine oil cap, which promptly got snagged by the timing belt

[rasputin]

y2blade said:

is this guy for real?

No.

HTH

[JMGS4]

Is someone a member of the forum who can find out if this guy is really an american?

[ProPlus]

swear this is a repost from last week???

[dickymint]

It's a repost from 2003

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