Originally Posted by Darth_V8r

Try overfilling the oil by a quart and see if it helps. Almost sounds like a small hole in the pickup tube above the inlet screen on the left hand side. When you turn hard left, all the oil goes to the right.

Originally Posted by RockinWs6

Interesting, if you want to try something different that won't hurt a thing go to Walmart abd get a bottle of transX auto matic trans conditioner and put 3 ozs in your engibe oil. It won't hurt anything but it will help seal and oring trouble and clean the lifters.

Darth has a good idea, maybe you have a pin hole in the pickup tube or crack.

Originally Posted by VerdeZ28

So after further testing I think the tick that comes up while turning hard left is not engine related. Seems to be coming from the rear and I could hear it clearly on my gopro.

Originally Posted by 1bdbrd

Would this be ok to do on a higher mileage engine? Mine is dead silent cold but after warming up has what I think is a lifter tick that gets louder after a rev when the rpms are coming down. Then its a steady faint tick at idle. Engine internally is completely stock as far as I know.

Originally Posted by VerdeZ28

I have been driving the car for a while like this but after a recent autox event it has begun to worry me. Basically the car makes a ticking noise when it warms up, and it gets worse when cornering hard. This noise has been driving me insane, but I have a couple ideas of what it could be and hopefully some of you guys could shed some light on this.

about 2 to 3 years ago I swapped in a 228/230 .571/.573 on 112° comp cam and had the heads ported by TEA stage 2. Springs are PSI 1511ML and LS7 Lifters. I also went with a melling 10295 oil pump.

Now I am hoping that the ticking noise is lifters. I can rule out exhaust leak since at a recent autox event, the ticking got louder when I took a hard left turn. The ticking seems to be coming from the driver side, so there might be a connection there.

Right now I have 3 theories: First, I went with too much lifter preload. I chose 7.350" pushrods after measureing with the pushrod length tool. After my measurments that comes to .088" preload. After doing this I later learned that .060" is recommended for LS7 lifters and aftermarket cams. But I am not sure if going roughly .025" less is going to make a difference or prevent the lifters from collapsing.

Theory 2: I could have pinched the oring on the oil pump and that is causing oil airation. I've seen this cause the symptom that I am seeing where the engine starts ticking after getting warmed up. However, my oil pressure is roughly 60psi at startup and when its completely warm I get 42-44psi. I would think that it should be less if this were the case.

Theory 3: i just have a bad set of lifters, but I would think that they would be tapping all the time instead of once the engine is warm.

Now I am hoping its not something worse like rod knock, but it does not get louder with more revs and it does not go away if I start shutting down cylinders so there is still hope in that regard. If you read this far then thanks. Hopefully some of you guys can give me some ideas on getting this solved.