Port and Polish intake, now need some help/advice

[landj]

Hey guys, I've got a 95 Camaro with a 3.4L. I've had chip and an electric turbo 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. 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 Camaros.

[truekoa]

Re: Port and Polish intake, now need some help/advice

are you serious?

[techsan23]

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Surely this is a joke.

[1997Canadian3.8]

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April fools in November?

[Atrum Rosa]

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My buddy only does Hondas so he doesn't know much about Camaros.

So THAT'S why "performance" Hondas sounds like garbage. :slap:

[Atrum Rosa]

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Also, what the hell is an electric turbo?

[Niko97RS]

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....no, this makes perfect sense...what use does an air filter have if dumpin sand in your AIR intake cant make your car faster

[landj]

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Update! The check engine light is now on and it seems to be blowing a lot more smoke. My buddy says that it's just a coincidence and probably an intake manifold from the extra power but I'm not so sure. Do you think its related?

Okay okay, I couldn't resist. I ran across an article referencing an Audi forum post here: http://www.audiforums.com/forum/showthread.php?t=80267. I thought it was too funny not to repost some adaptation here, but I didn't have the guts to post it in the general forum (any of you want to give it a go and see the responses?)

[Atrum Rosa]

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Hehe, trollin' aside, I'm still trying to figure out what an electric turbo is :P

[savagecamaro96]

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come on dude if youre gonna make a joke thread at least be original

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

[Atrum Rosa]

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Okay okay, I couldn't resist. I ran across an article referencing an Audi forum post here: http://www.audiforums.com/forum/showthread.php?t=80267. I thought it was too funny not to repost some adaptation here, but I didn't have the guts to post it in the general forum (any of you want to give it a go and see the responses?)

He said that ;)

[truekoa]

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Also, what the hell is an electric turbo?

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Elect...Q5fAccessories

[landj]

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Hehe, trollin' aside, I'm still trying to figure out what an electric turbo is :P

eh, I guess I should have said electric supercharger. I was trying to sound like one of the millions of wannabe "tuners" who have more stickers than brains. The electric supercharger is an intake restrictor made from a $10 bilge pump blower and resold on ebay for whatever they can milk the buyer for as a "performance part." See pick below of an interesting homebrew one.

There actually are real electric turbos out there for bench testing as I understand it, but they weigh around 500 lbs and run off of 3 phase power which make them not so desirable for real world application. Who knows, with all the advancements in brushless motors and lithium battery packs, maybe one day we'll see real ones.

[darkflare999]

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lmao i heard of that same joke before...it has been on a ton of forums ...when i first saw it 4 years ago i thought it was serious lol!!

[Mighty Thor]

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You need to hang out with us.

First, you need to get rid of that electric SC and get a real turbo. Lots of guys here with 3.4 engine has done that.