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Title: Soooo, tried something this weekend and it went wrong
Post by: Soul on April 01, 2013, 10:31:04 AM
Hey guys, I've got a slightly built up 302, chip TFS heads etc 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.
 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 sing and knocking noises.
Help! Can anyone tell me what to do! My buddy only does Hondas so he doesn't know much about Fords.
Title: Soooo, tried something this weekend and it went wrong
Post by: TheFoeYouKnow on April 01, 2013, 10:48:21 AM
April fools.  Ain't nobody fool enough for that.
Title: Soooo, tried something this weekend and it went wrong
Post by: Soul on April 01, 2013, 10:59:10 AM
lol, I borrowed it from an Audi site, was hoping to catch someone :P
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Post by: Beau on April 01, 2013, 11:49:58 AM
;)
Title: Soooo, tried something this weekend and it went wrong
Post by: 88turbo on April 01, 2013, 12:50:31 PM
Nice try but I know you're not that dumb ;-)
Title: Soooo, tried something this weekend and it went wrong
Post by: STANG8U on April 01, 2013, 01:09:22 PM
Omg I was like wtf lmfao

That's a good one
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Post by: t3skidoo on April 01, 2013, 05:22:19 PM
You should do only one cylinder at a time.  Takes more sand that way, but is much more thorough.
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Post by: 1986Élan on April 01, 2013, 07:29:13 PM
i kneeeewww it  hahahahahhahaha
Title: Soooo, tried something this weekend and it went wrong
Post by: Big B on April 03, 2013, 08:40:40 PM
I LoL'd
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Post by: CoogarXR on April 03, 2013, 09:34:00 PM
Reminds me of a story I read on some other forum of a guy dumping one of those NOS energy drinks into his oil fill expecting a HP boost. Except I think he was serious...
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Post by: BJL on April 07, 2013, 09:27:28 AM
o that was a guy in a street bike! so epic!

i read the sand in the intake a few years ago. i think it started on a honda forum and someone messing with the kid and he went through with it. and it didnt turn out well.
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Post by: BLeavitt23 on April 07, 2013, 06:01:38 PM
Quote from: BJL;412770
i think it started on a honda forum...

Makes sense