View Poll Results: How much racket does your motor make?..
None...almost silent
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14.01%
Moderate...a little bit of comotion in there.
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66.24%
Lots...slaps and rattles itself all day.
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19.75%
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07-20-2007, 12:19 AM
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How much noise?... I have noticed plenty of noise out of these LS1 motors as far as slap, and valvetrain clatter sounds, even some really low mile cars I gave a test drive to seemed to have some clatter even once warm....where does yours fall?...(Loud exhaust guys keep in mind its harder to hear)...
07-20-2007, 12:56 AM
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Mine just seems to clatter and rattle and softly knock here or there at random...there isnt really a constant tick tick tick or knock knock knock....its hard to explain. I guess its just normal,,
07-20-2007, 01:19 AM
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Originally Posted by LS1Silverado05
Mine just seems to clatter and rattle and softly knock here or there at random...there isnt really a constant tick tick tick or knock knock knock....its hard to explain. I guess its just normal,,
Thats pretty much what mine is like. Guess it pretty normal.
07-21-2007, 12:22 AM
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Mine sounds like an army of midgets with hammers and frying pans is under the hood. I got a pretty extreme knock from down low I'm just waiting on my ticket to the SBC. It almost went away completely when I upped my oil weight but came right back after 2 weeks.
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07-21-2007, 07:13 PM
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Originally Posted by Arc00TA
Mine sounds like an army of midgets with hammers and frying pans is under the hood. I got a pretty extreme knock from down low I'm just waiting on my ticket to the SBC. It almost went away completely when I upped my oil weight but came right back after 2 weeks.
07-21-2007, 08:39 PM
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mine is horrible to the point that i'm pulling it apart and swapping cams... I really think something is wrong maybe a lifter or something.... but it's always been loud from the day I put the cam in the SOB
07-21-2007, 08:53 PM
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sure you don't have unicorns poking holes in your exhaust.......and shitting in filters?
07-21-2007, 09:39 PM
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Originally Posted by Arc00TA
Actually I just patched a hole in teh muffler.... maybe that was it. But in all seriousness, I can't stand to be close to my car before it warms up, I just start it and walk away for 20 minutes.
07-21-2007, 09:46 PM
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As a new LS1 owner, I don't find it any louder than other vehicles I've had. My 2004 Hemi truck ticked and my 2004 F150 5.4 ticked. Maybe I'm used to it, but it doesn't bug me.
07-22-2007, 01:30 AM
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Well, Its not that it bothers me that it makes noise so much as not knowing what it is. For example, back when I had a couple of 3/S cars they had really bad lifter tick when cold, but I knew that sound. The LS1 is like a grab-bag of noises, some ticks, pops, rattles, clicks, bangs, etc that all happen at once and it scares the **** out of me because I can't say "hey this noise is such and such".
07-22-2007, 05:32 PM
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my car ..silent as a lamb (well a lamb with a terrifying exhaust) when it was just Lt's, ory, catback....then i decided to put a cam in it...and now it sounds like im running a sweatshop in my engine bay. Especially if the windows are up, and the radio is quiet...trying to have a romantic conversation with some skeeze..really ruins the moment
07-22-2007, 08:35 PM
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Originally Posted by delsold
my car ..silent as a lamb (well a lamb with a terrifying exhaust) when it was just Lt's, ory, catback....then i decided to put a cam in it...and now it sounds like im running a sweatshop in my engine bay. Especially if the windows are up, and the radio is quiet...trying to have a romantic conversation with some skeeze..really ruins the moment
