Newsgroup post at my work from a guy and his Audi....

[Mario149]

Okay, I don't know a lot about the technical side of cars, but this guy appears to be monumentally stupid. It would appear from my colleague on the newgroup that he's serious as well....!

Some idiot said:

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 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.

[Dave^]

http://audiforums.com/forum/showthread.php?t=80267

http://digg.com/autos/I_Was_Considering_Putting_Sa...

and a million more results here...

http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=sandblasting+sand...fficial&client=firefox-a

Edited by Dave^ on Thursday 4th February 13:27

[CraigW]

whats next, how to detail a car with bleach and a brillo pad>?

what a berk

[Munter]

CraigW said:

whats next, how to detail a car with bleach and a brillo pad>?

what a berk

No the one after that was the nitrous into the engine.

Drill hole in top of engine (as in open bonnet, locate engine, set about the flat surface on the top of the engine with a drill). Hook up nitrous supply to said hole.

Then wonder why it has no effect, and post pics on the internet.