ticking.....Ahhhh haa i bet u guys thought this was another Direct injection post, but nooo i hear the DI, but does any1 hear another tick that seems to happen every second or so?cant hear it in the car only rite next to the hood. Also this may be stupid, but is that suitcase of a thing on the exhaust before the tip the muffler, or resonator?

moderator please feel free to move this 2 the tech section if no1 here can answer.

 

im pretty sure its a muffler, and the stock exhausts on these cars tick like crazy.

 

muffler

 

yea thought it was a muffler, but wasn't positive. the ticking im talking about is from the motor not the exhaust sounds like its coming from the block/headers

 

ah ok, well i remember tons of posts when the SC's came out ppl were going nuts over the sound of the exhaust ticking as it cooled off. i'm an LSJ guy, so i can't really help you with the TC. and the muffler does look like a silver duffel bag stuffed under the rear bumper.

 

thats why its coming off tuesday.

 

good. toss that ****.

 

wish i could do a sound clip of before and after, but have no equipment.I think we r welding a slp pipe (ablut 2 ft of it lol) and a 3'' slp tip on until some1 makes me a damn downpipe and turbo back exhaust!!!!!!!!!!!!! but my cousin had about 6 different pipe/ tips to choose from so we will probably play with a couple 2 see which sounds best.

 

thats a pretty sweet deal. wish i had multiple choices just hanging about.

 

come 2 jerzy we will do it 4 free lol he has more money than he knows what 2 do with its off his 9.6 sec camaro ss guarantee none of those exhausts have been on a car 4 more than 2 weeks he wanted the perfect exhaust soooo. but the bends are no where near what i could use but its a 2.5'' pipe (just like the balt) to a 3'' tip i know we will try the borla and magnaflow before we decide,,im just a slp fan i guess rice sux i want deep sound 2 remind me of my 5.7 hemi i had 2 part with.

 

anyone else hear this tick?

 

Yes
at idle you will hear a tick that sounds like high pressure popping off. Its the high fuel pressure fuel pump bypassing. (It sounds like tick pause tick pause tick) About a second of time space between each tick at idle.

 

I have an HHR SS same motor, same tick...

 

hey man, i dont know if the car comes with an engine cover, i went to the dealer and didnt see one on it, but if it does could be that if its not the high pressure fuel pump...sory dont own one yet

 

Nope
no engine cover's and no hood blanket either.

 

My HHR SS has the same tick, someone once said it was the fuel injection...

 

Having owned subaru's i want to say its a valve tap, but i think thats a side effect of boxer motors

 

only 2,000 miles on it if it has a valve tap im killing some1

sounds rite

 

its not valve tap - its a perfectly normal sound on a DI car coming from the high pressure fuel pump