squrlathon

often on older cars you can hear the valves pipe-up a bit when you accelerate -- if you're in a low gear and the rpm's are low or you're cruising and hit an incline and have to give it some gas, you can hear the valves tick a bit while the car struggles to accelerate in a gear which is a bit too low for the speed. Mine is doing this I noticed lately. What is that a symptom of?

thermonuclear

No offence, but how many of your 379 posts are dedicated to valvetrain noise?

Xel

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Xel

take it to a good mechanic man, and check out ur valves:-) if u're valves maniak:-) take it to an audi dealer:-))))

MikTip

In what condition are your knock sensors?

VAP

in a low gear and the rpm's are low or you're cruising along and hit an incline and have to give it some gas you can hear the valves tick a bit while the car struggles to accelerate in a gear that's a bit too low for the speed...."

Sounds like engine knock to me... pinging, pre-ignition or it could be piston slap. But one things for sure, the engine won't be with us much longer if thats the case.

squrlathon

I'll get the codes checked and see what we find.

squrlathon

how far up your *** is your head? I'm trying to solve the problem step by step. If you had read the posts, then you would understand that the real problem occurs when I try to run 268 cams. I'm not just being picky about the valve noise. Each time I post, people come up with suggestions and I take action on those. Eventually the problem will be solved. Your problem, mr. thermonuclear, will apparently take a team of specialists armed with cattle prods to remedy it.

cheers.

thermonuclear

sorry, just making an observation

squrlathon

work and how they might be causing the noises I'm hearing -- could you please expand a little on what pinging, pre-ignition and piston slap are and what causes these things? I'm trying to determine how worried I should be...