From another forum.

I really hope it's a joke

"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."

http://www.audiforums.com/forum/off-topic-5/hey-guys-please-help-my-mods-gone-wrong-80267/

This is making the rounds again? A version of that's been on the internet for YEARS. Total joke/troll.

mndsm wrote: This is making the rounds again? A version of that's been on the internet for YEARS. Total joke/troll.

^ THIS, seriously.

It isn't even making the rounds again. It is a four year old thread.

Almost like the guy with the garden hose.

Almost as good as the one where a guy changed his own oil and dumped heavy weight differential oil into the crankcase.

de-carbons valves, pistons and combustion chambers too. win/win

my favorite was the guy who bought a bunch of bottles of NOS at the convenience store and poured it in his gas tank..

Sky_Render wrote: Almost as good as the one where a guy changed his own oil and dumped heavy weight differential oil into the crankcase.

hey, if you've got a smoking and knocking 455 in a 73 Le Sabre, this will keep you running for a while..

iceracer wrote: Almost like the guy with the garden hose.

Though I actually did this with my mother's 455 Olds. Garden hose full blast, throttle wide open.

Engine did not self destruct!

Almost as good as the one where a guy changed his own oil and dumped heavy weight differential oil into the crankcase.

Did that as well. Last time was the old Ford. Ran 140 gear oil in the engine so it wouldn't burn it so badly. Flat head engine was so worn you could move the pistons around and see the backside of the rings.

Or the one where the guys car caught fire while he was working on it and his pictures plainly show a box end wrench bridging the terminals. Loved that.

Alright, after reading a ton of threads on welding up gears for extra traction, i went ahead and welded mine up.

I put the third back in and went to pull out of my garage, and I just roasted my clutch. I figured that maybe there was some slag left in the bearing, so i dropped it in 4lo and lo and behold something broke loose. MY berkeleying DRIVE LINE.

I'm really pissed at all this BS talk. I welded my junk really wel. And now my driveline is twisted up like a damn pretzel.

You are all a bunch of E36 M3 talkin Jerks.

What the hell did you all do differently?