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08-18-2007, 11:15 PM
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Ticking Ok, so I'm out racing, have my car redlined in 3rd, go for 4th and manage to grab 2nd 
. Well now I am hearing a ticking at low RPMs. If you pop the hood and are looking at the engine, the sound seems to be coming from the driver side and toward the firewall. I know with this information it could prolly be thousands of things, but I figured it was worth a shot to see. My car still seems to run fine. Its a 98 Z28
. Well now I am hearing a ticking at low RPMs. If you pop the hood and are looking at the engine, the sound seems to be coming from the driver side and toward the firewall. I know with this information it could prolly be thousands of things, but I figured it was worth a shot to see. My car still seems to run fine. Its a 98 Z28 
08-19-2007, 12:03 AM
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I have the same thing, I'm 99% sure its bent pushrod, but right now I don't really care unless it breaks completely. Mine happened after I banged the rev limiter on a 2-3 upshift. It seems to be too much of a hassle to fix if I'm going to do H/C soon anyways.
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08-19-2007, 01:50 PM
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I am pretty sure its not injector noise and I don't have headers. I guess I will get it into a shop this week and have her checked out. Thanks for the help.
08-19-2007, 03:10 PM
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I had ticking does it seem like it's coming from under the car when you're stood outside?
Mine was a loose spark plug, tightened it up and no more ticking, also if you've got LTs check your cats, i also hit a dip in the road chasing a 240sx and it ripped a hole in it, that also made a ticking noise till i replaced it
Mine was a loose spark plug, tightened it up and no more ticking, also if you've got LTs check your cats, i also hit a dip in the road chasing a 240sx and it ripped a hole in it, that also made a ticking noise till i replaced it
08-20-2007, 12:36 AM
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Mine is very definitely a metallic sound, not exhaust leak etc. Its coming from about dead center on the motor so a pushrod is a good guess. I don't really want to get into it iuntil I do heads but I might swap them out anyways. I have also heard that a bad coilpack makes a similar noise.
08-20-2007, 11:25 AM
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It's probably a bent pushrod. Best to get it fixed because it could start causing problems elsewhere. Could throw things out of sync. An engine doesn't work right unless everything is working together.
