I just purchased a new 2008 honda civic si w/500 mile on the clock. My god it is fast compared to my old geo prizm. Anyway I've has a cai 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 Honda's (he does cold air intake, high performance spark plugs and high performance fuel filter etc.) 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 redline the engine. 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 doesn't know what to do all I wanted was to reach 300hp goal. Am I gonna have to take my car to the dealer? Would this be covered under my bumper to bumper warranty???

 

ur attempt at humor failed miserably

 

yeah, your a total tool. you dumb[freak]. ban this asshat.

 

OP, this is a tech forum. I do not find this funny.