after reading the thread about how a guy took his wife's GT into a dealership to get a problem fixed and found out later that the car had been tortured at the hands of some punk with a lead foot, i am kind of wondering about my car and it's sounds. i'm the only one who's ever drove it but i just want to see if this sound is normal.

my dad says it's coming from the fuel injectors and i partially agree with him. the sound happens on both sides of the engine and is more of a clacking sound. my friend says he's heard louder but if i can hear it if i stick my head out of the window at a dead stop, then it's loud enough.

do any of you guys have a slightly noisy engine or does it purr quietly?

 

probably injectors; some are louder than others. You can get a mechanics stethoscope from harbor freight for about 3 bucks...and you can isolate the noise yourself.

Go test drive a GT at a dealership and give a listen to another enigneto compare.

 

mine does the same exact thing but i found it's coming from the injectors and i also had a friend of mine who works at a ford dealership take a look and he said that the 3V v8 is just a noisy engine and there's really nothing to fix the problem, but it's nothing thats going to hurt your engine.

 

okay, good to know.

spend 30k on a car and you freak out at the smallest noises [8D]

 

07Alloy - same here after installing bassani cross pipes with CAT, JLT II CAI and Borla stingers, but not loud enough to **** me off. I think it's what we got for adding those things. Or fixing that something that's not broken.

 

Dunno if your sure its from the engine or not but when the A/C is on the Compressor clacking and clicking is extremely loud.

 

Yeah, my car, for the first few minutes after startup, sounds faintly like a Diesel engine!

Had the same issue when I had my C5 Vette (LS1 engine), they called it "piston slap"..considered normal

 

I started to wonder if I had bought a GTF-250.................

 

Mine clicks and clacks since new. It's the injectors.

 

It is the injectors and you need to take into account that you have a plastic intake manifold so noise is easily transmitted through it unlike a aluminum one that suppresses the noise somewhat do to it being metal.

Richard