So, like, what's up with Audiworld?

[John Cody Forbes]

The story has been told many times. There is a famous VWVortex post about 
somebody doing this on thier 1.8t. Written exactly the same way. Here's a 
version I found on an Audi forum:
http://www.audiforums.com/forum/showthread.php?t=80267

Likely a tall tale told as truth. Like the guy with JATO rockets on his 
Buick, and the myth that wastegates make chirping noises when not plumbed 
into the exhaust....

-Cody Forbes

thejimrose wrote:
> pretty sure that was a joke.
>
> i figured you meant the recent debacle over the IB buy out, that has
> caused a mass exodus over to the new independent spinoff,
> quattroworld.com
>
> i guess people actually liked that old format. i for one, hated it.
> good lesson tho, in not mucking with a good thing.
>
>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: Mark R <speedracer.mark at gmail.com>
>> To: Tess McMillan <tessmc at eskimo.com>
>> Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 21:05:01 -0400
>> Subject: Re: So, like, what's up with Audiworld?
>> Crushed walnut shells... right into the intake manifold (proper)...
>> probably
>> would've worked.  But SAND?
>>
>> Crazy.
>>
>> Then again, FIAT and Alfa owners ARE crazy!
>> (my first car.... 1987 Bertone (FIAT) X1/9; which I still have... in
>> pieces)
>>
>> Mark Rosenkrantz
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 2:40 PM, Tess McMillan <tessmc at eskimo.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I had to laugh when my friend posted one of the messages over to
>>> the Alfa digest.
>>>
>>> The poster was having runability issues with his turbo conversion.
>>> Buried in the sequence of events was the mention that he and his
>>> buddy had decided to hook up the engine to a bag of sand, using the
>>> vacuum of the intake to do the dirty work. Their plan was that this
>>> would P&P the system. They were surprised that the approach didn't
>>> work. &;->
>>>
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