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Port and Polish Gone Wrong- Please Help

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rpg_dog

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Sep 20, 2008
Colorado Spring, Colorado
Hey guys, I've got a 92 GSX. 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 DSMs.
:confused:
 
Hey guys, I've got a 92 GSX. 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 DSMs.
:confused:

Are you joking? :confused::confused::toobad: buy a new engine. don't put sand in the next one.:beatentodeath:
 
This is fake, Stolen from a different forum. (the original story was an Audi)
 
He must think we are idiots, that story is as fake as it is stupid. This is a site filled with HANDS ON tuners who won't fall for that. Now the one about wanting to know where they could find boost fluid because their turbo ran out was good.
 
Wow now don't we have some grumpy people in here!! I stumbled across it and laughed my ass of and thought it might get a good laugh in here. I just changed the Audi info to DSM names. Thanks for raining on my parade, I didn't realize how serious everyone in here was.
 
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