So, like, what's up with Audiworld?

[thejimrose]

yup that one has popped up on many a forum. good stuff... the replies are
priceless.


On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 6:19 PM, John Cody Forbes <cody at 5000tq.com> wrote:

> 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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