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14 January 2008, 02:06 PM
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OMG guys read this........
I found this on another website!! What a **** head!!!!
Hey guys, I've got a 2004 Blue impreza sti. I've had it remapped 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 exhaust 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 Subarus
Hey guys, I've got a 2004 Blue impreza sti. I've had it remapped 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 exhaust 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 Subarus
14 January 2008, 02:19 PM
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craig what site did you get that off or did you just change the subject matter - re change the car in question to a scoob to make it more relevant for this site.
Thats copied from the audi forum
Thats copied from the audi forum
14 January 2008, 02:25 PM
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Wilkoca i aint sad enough to change things!!!
Mid-Wales Japanese Car Club • View topic - Hello all but have a problem
Mid-Wales Japanese Car Club • View topic - Hello all but have a problem
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i've pretty much just fallen off my chair from reading that audi forum!!! the tears are coming down my face and my side is killing!!!!!!!
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A lot like the time a guy dropped his oil filer cap on him M3 then used a sock to cover it for a short journey home.....only he never made it as the sock wrapped itself round the cams. Surely BS, but funny all the same 
14 January 2008, 07:50 PM
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There are different types of sand, which type was used? As that may be the problem ....
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