engine knocking Options

[lagos]

Take an engine bay vid while you are reving the engine up a few times.

The first video sounds normal, like a normal sound you hear when your motor wants to stall out (like yours does). The 2nd video sounds worse .... kind of like a bearing issue, but its impossible to tell for sure until you rev it up.

Go change your oil. Take off the oil filter and cut into it. You should see some metal shavings inside the oil filter. Take pics of the filter and post them up.

[CaliJeff]

nope, i'm not talkin about the hissin sound

[jcaron9gt4]

just changed the oil and nothing in the oil that came out...no metal shavings or anything....idk how to cut open the filter lagos, but from what i see, it was just oil in there, tried to rinse it out with water and nothing but oil res. came out.

[lagos]

Use a small hand saw, a knife or a pipe cutter. Its kind of like cutting open an aluminum can. Then you can examin the actual filter inside and see whats stuck to it.

[jcaron9gt4]

alright, i finally got a chance to cut open my filter today, and nothing was in there but oil. I had my buddy at work take a look at my car and listen to it, and he said it might also be a noisey lifter. But anyways, he has a compression tester so i should be doing that soon and see whats really going on. The thing i dont get is that wouldnt i notice the difference in power if something was majorly wrong? I mean, my car seems like its running strong as ever. I just dont get it.

[lagos]

Buy yourself a 10$ stethoscope from a car parts store. Youll be able to pinpoint the location of the noise.

[jcaron9gt4]

Alright, finally got a chance to check my compression today and had some solid readings of 200 200 205 210. The difference should be no more than 14psi if i am correct. So i'm hoping this means that my engine is still fine and can sustain boost for another summer. Just a little update