Just picked up the car a couple days ago and when it starts cold in the morning it runs good but after it heats up... usually about 20 min or more this noise gets much louder and only comes in after 2,000+ rpm... It sounds basically like a ticking or something is loose.

The noise is most noticeable on decel after 2k...

The car also seems to have trouble staying cool if I'm parked and keeping the revs up, the temp will spike and max out on the gauge but when I pop the hood no steam and the motor doesn't seem hot but I do smell coolant and theres nothing leaking. If I leave the car running I can watch the temp come back down infront of me, it actually comes down pretty quick.

http://youtu.be/74asnB0N_lU

My buddy seems to think a bad water pump could be the culprit... but I dunno.

I can try and get a better recording if you cant make out the sound... let me know.

anyone want to trade my carbon hood for a stock one??

 

I didn't hear anything specifically in that vid except you revving the engine?

I wonder if your thermostat is malfunctioning... that temperature issue is real talk.

Where do you live? Is your coolant up to the right spec?

 

Hopefully it isn't anything to major, sorry I can't add any helpful advice.

 

Exhaust heat shield rattling..?

 

Could be didn't think of that, my friends did it on his civic when it was sitting still.

 

Might be a rod bearing mine sounded the same i thought it was a lifter or valves floated and cracked a piston but turns out I spun a bearing

 

the timing belt snapped while driving down the street not aggressive or anything... had to push the thing a mile and half across the cause way and then have it towed.

Now the big question is it totally ****ed?

The cam toward the front of the engine moves like a quarter turn then stops in either direction the cam toward the back of the car wont move at all...

do I have to rebuild the head?

ugh fml

 

UR effed man..
Get ready to spend $$$

 

awesome.

thought so