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Old 10-06-04, 07:11 PM
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Is my car pinging?

Now I posted on this earlier but noone really responded, but one person did tell me it might be pinging. So what I did was change the spark plugs. Still I get this click once or twice under hard acceleration in first and second gear, not at a stand still rev and not while running it through 4th and 5th. at first I thought it was coming from the bov but still am not too sure only because around the same time I noticed the click I noticed that my stock bov sounded as though it is hissing much than it would before such as hissing while just cruising up a slight incline or hissing while slowing coming off of a light. Also theres more of a whine to the turbos but the car doesnt seem to have lost much power at all. I do not have a boost gauge but I am very quickly seeing the usefulness of one. The Question is: what is going on with my car.
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Engine is Blown... thats the only explanation.
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^^ lol.. either a crazzy boost leak or blown motor.
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Yes I know its funny and true that people jump to the worst conclusion but is there any usefull (no offence) input?
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With an N1 exhaust how do you even hear any of that?

Seriously though, get the boost gauge. That should narrow it down quite a bit.
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How does it run at idle and off boost?
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at idle it runs very normally.
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honestly it is very hard for online diagnosis of problems when you dont have all the monitoring tools neccesary.

clicking could come from so many sources
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Thanks anyway.
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you're very welcome
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Thanks anyway.
Where in FL do you live?

I didnt think you could really hear a car "ping" because you need a sensor that detects the high frequency of the detonation? I may be wrong.

If you are hearing an actual metal hitting metal ping it's probabily something loose in your engine bay.
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Does anybody have a link to that video of some guy pinging on the dyno?

I tried searching for it a while back and didn't come up with anything... I hope it didn't get killed during the last forum upgrade.
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St Petersburg, The "Berg"
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