Hey guys, I've got a 156 2.0. I've had a filter 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 rev it too high. After running the car and letting it suck in sand we got about half way through a 25 lb bag. 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 Alfas.

Nice one 156 tuner, if your going to put something like this up on the forum at least make it original! last time i heard about this it was an audi turbo and the guy said that the turbo would be allright as long as it didn't make boost! awsome.

haha, that's funny. Haven't come across that one before but apparently it first appeared in the Audi forum and some magazine.

Also, this! (Answer to the problem in the 3rd last post)
http://www.tamparacing.com/forums/subaru-tech/455091-possible-blown-engine-need-urgent-help.html

where's the joke - that is the right way to do it - not sure where he went wrong - probably an unrelated problem.