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Hey guys, I've got a 98 1.8T. I've had a k04 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 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 Audis.

This monstrosity is the work of Simon Whitlock. It is a Kawasaki H1 with 6 inline-eight engines (Yes you heard it right, 6 inline-eight which has a total displacement of 4.2l and has a whopping 48 cylinders in total) from the S1 (Another Kawasaki bike) with a crankshaft for each of them which is tied together by gears and mated to a BMW transmission. To awaken this beast from its slumber, there's 6 Jaguar E-Type distributors and a 75cc motor under the seat.

Does positive (+) thoughts attract positive (+) things? I wanted it to rain so much yesterday when I cycled back from uni because it has been very very VERY HOT these few days. It hasn't rained since last two weeks. And it rained yesterday evening!

So does (+) really attracts (+)?

That is the 'Barrel Monster'. It is the creation of a North Carolina State University student. He has been arrested and charged with lacerny for stealing some of those bright orange construction barrels from the road. This is Joseph Carnevale's most daring and biggest project ever. Yes he does have other similar projects. Not only is he a street artist, he's also an urban explorer (Exploring all those dangerous urban places such as construction sites, sewers, abandoned buildings and elevator shafts). In my opinion, this should be placed on every highway and is way better than the lame Ops Sikap.

His other works :

Yesterday was one very rough day. It was fun nevertheless. I went waterfall hiking with my mates. No idea on what that is? It is a combination of rock climbing, water wading and hiking.

It was the Taman Ros waterfall that we went to. Taman Ros is on the left at the first traffic light on the way to Tapah from Kampar through the trunk road. The rocks were slippery and most of us suffered some form of injury. Even the hiking trail was full of evil leeches and an expedition member, Caroline was hit several times by their vicious attack. We climbed waterfall after waterfall gaining altitude with each, trying to reach the MOTHER of all the falls there.

After hiking and climbing the waterfalls for a few hours, we started to worry about getting back. The hike up was very dangerous, it was filled with slippery and jagged rocks, rotten tree trunk and poisonous insects. We still continued hiking despite the thought.

6 hours into our hike we took 5 and waited for our Tarzan (Chuah aka Chuek) to return because he was the one who lead the team and scouted ahead. He was really a Tarzan! Imagine a guy topless, with only a pair blue shorts jumping from rock to rock, and those rocks are slippery rocks. We waited and waited.. And waited. He still did not return.. Then we sent our Assistant Tarzan, Edward to look for him. He went for awhile and came back with a solemn face, no sign of Tarzan. We waited together again..

The whole merry and happy situation was gone and was replaced by a sense of dread, everyone was quiet and started to plan ahead. If there is still no sign of him in half an hour we would leave for home as sunlight started to diminish. Edward went out looking for him again, one last time before we leave. Again he came back with bad news, no signs of him but he found a jungle trail down the hill. So, we decided to leave him a message carved out on a rock saying 'home' with a stick of cigarette (He is one heavy smoker).

As we were climbing up from the falls to the trail, we saw movements and a tinge of red among the forest green. That couldn't be Chuek because he was topless and was only wearing a blue shorts. We yelled and shouted. Apparently, the tinge of red we saw was the red t-shirts worn by the Rakan Muda troop. We gave a description about our friend who was missing and asked them if they had seen him. They said no.

On the way down we saw some old timers hiking up. We told them our story and they asked us to follow them up to search for Chuek. All of us couldn't afford to follow them, Chuek could already be down there waiting for us. So, Edward followed them up and the rest of us continued our descend. It was a long long trail down. There were even talks among the expedition group that they would give Chuek one hella slap before hugging him when he was found.

Around an hour plus into our descend we got a phone call from Edward saying he found Chuek. We were comforted by the news but it wasn't overwhelming yet. Another hour down, we heard voices from behind us, it was Edward and Chuek! Both of them came down with the old timers and was able to catch up with us. The slapping and hugging had to wait till we get to the bottom.

One of the old timers led the way down, he was jogging down the mountain trail and we had to keep up with him. He was even blabbering non-stop about his life as he jog. I only managed to caught half of what he was saying. "He's a 55 year old trainer who teaches boxing above a shop lot which is near KTAR (Kolej Tunku Abdul Rahman)".

After a while of hearing his lecture while jogging down the trail, we reached the foot of the hill. Chuek's time was up, it's clobbering time! *Piak*Piak* He got slapped by Caroline followed by a tight hug from her. He then explained his side of the story.

He was waiting for us a distance ahead from where we waited for him. When Edward went looking for him, Edward found a waterfall that was very difficult to climb as the only way up was a tree trunk with water gushing down it. There was no other way up. Chuek was even beyond that point. He was further away. He climbed the tree and continued on. We also questioned him on why did he not kept visual contact with the rest of us. He said that he saw a shadow and it was calling him to follow it. I don't know it's that's bull***t but the jungle is full of these kind of things.

After changing into dry clothes, we went off for dinner. That was one hella adventure!!

I'm dead serious about this. I was online-ing happily then suddenly... jeng jeng jeng... cannot online.. page tak mau load... everything just bogs down. Reloading/Refreshing the page didn't help either. Then i noticed that I was just connected to the local area network and not the world wide web. How can that happen? Sometimes I'm connected to both but still pages refused to load!

Oh I'm sharing the Internet line through a router. It's cheaper but it's slowwwww, at least it works.. at times... Sigh..

Hmph let it merajuk on its own lah. I'm off to test DOTA 6.60. =)

Have you ever wondered where will we go after we pass on? Is there really an afterlife? Is it Heaven or Hell? Do you really meet your maker? This questions has been haunting us, mankind for as long as we exist. Still there is no answer on what will happen to us after we die. It still remains unknown to most of us. (Some have claimed that they have seen the afterworld, that's why I used the word 'most') This fear of the unknown has led some of us to fear death itself. We will all meet Death one day. There is no escape. Death is imminent. It will claim us when our time here is up.

I might sound like I'm believing in the obsidian bewinged figure which dons a long black coat while carrying a long and wicked scythe that descends on us when our time is up and claims our soul but no, I do not believe in such stories. However I do have some doubts on how religion perceives the afterlife. By questioning this, I questioning a far greater power. I'm asking what mankind has always been curious about, is there God?

I'm not too sure if the Big Guy upstairs really exists, but I'm sure that the things that happen are the result of our own work.

I believe that when we die, we actually fall into a deep long sleep. Then the afterlife is like your dream, each of us would have a different dream, a different afterlife. This is what I think it would be like. This is just my opinion, please don't take it too seriously.

There is another question I would like to ask, I can't seem to answer it as both path are possible. Do you really get a second chance at life if you are brought back after being dead for years? With the condition of our body is kept in a perfect condition, meaning no rot has taken place. Can we assemble our own human being if one day we managed to manufacture all our vital organs? Imagine a car, if you have all the parts fixed at the right places, you turn the ignition, it switches on. Apply the same concept on a human body, can it work? If it does work, will the body retain its memories? Will he function like a normal human being? Is he who he is after all those years? Thinking about all these in the middle of the quiet night is a lil disturbing.. Night folks. Hope I got you wondering!

>>Terminator Salvation was good, but still X-Men : Origins was better. The main theme that drives the plot of Terminator Salvation is conflict. There is conflict everywhere in the movie. There is conflict between man and machine as they battle for supremacy, conflict in between the two main characters, conflict within themselves and even conflict between man as greed and lust takes over them. All this conflict is good as it keeps the action scenes coming. Speaking of the action scenes, it was incredible! Thank you Industrial Light and Magic for all those eye-popping scenes. However the whole past-present-future states are confusing me. Is Terminator Salvation supposed to be T4(Part 4 of the series)? The father-son situation does not help either. When trying to fit the pieces of the puzzle together, some parts just don't fit. Oh have you seen the trailer? In my opinion, the trailer kind of gave part of the twist away. It ruined the surprise the directors had for us. Without all the confusion and the giving-away-part-of-the-twist-trailer, it might be the movie of the year. Nevertheless it's this is one wild roller coaster ride!**