Originally Posted by AK370Z I have NO ticking noise from engine area. But, after driving more than half hour (meaning cats are fully warmed up), I get a little ticking
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05-21-2009, 01:24 AM | #16 (permalink) | |
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The sounds I've been talking about are just subtle repetitive ticks, like a metronome synchronized click-track, that are completely stable (at a given rpm). What you've recorded is something very scratchy and erratic... |
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To answer your question, YES you can hear it up to 2 feet away from car(if it's really quiet out) . Am I overreacting?
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Re: after the car is turned off, you're talking about the usual ticking from metal contracting as the car cools off? That video doesn't sound anything like that to me. But metal contracting/expanding and making that characteristic sound is normal even when the engine is running as the temps of the components change.
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the only thing i can think of is when you let the engine idle it starts to cool down the converter due to less exaust passing through(obviously lol) and then maybe the components inside and the heat sheild maybe contracting a bit, i don't get how this would make the sound on your video but thats the only explanation i could come up with, i did a search on google and wikipedia and other sites and read some stuff of catalytic converters (i'm kinda bored at the moment) but came up empty handed other than a thread on a cadillac forum of a guy describing the exact same thign as you and they seemed to think it was just the cooling off of the components as well but no one could say for sure so who knows.
edit: wstar beat me to it and said basically the same thing lol Last edited by Lyndo; 05-21-2009 at 01:59 AM. |
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So I just think its most likely a VQ characteristic. |
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Nothing to worry about its either the lifters ticking or the injectors and if you hear it after you have driven it and parked it is the exhaust cooling and contracting.
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08-02-2009, 03:41 PM | #27 (permalink) |
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Wow that is weird, it could be anything, I would take it in to your dealer ASAP.
My opinion would be, it sounds like leaky exhaust system, because my old 280zx made similar sounds, I had it check out & the muffler guy found a small hole in exhaust pipe after the cat. In you case it could be either defective seals or if you ran over something it may have puncture a small hole somewhere in the syst. Let us know the updates, Znism11 |
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it's most likely exhaust/cat converter cooling and contracting.
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