Need Help..Noisy D16A8

[CivicSedanMan]

Just bought an EH9 Civic SI w/ 220K's on it and it makes a horribly noise, here it is:

http://home.iprimus.com.au/tsacottam/Civic/noisyD16A8-1.wav

The sound qualiy is not the best as it was recorded using my old Dell Latitude CPi Laptop, which was sitting on the air induction box.


It has been serviced every 5-15000k's up to 208k's (I hope the timing belt has been done) and the previous owner drove it like a granny, I worked with the previous owner and he use to bitch at me for taking my AE82 Twin Cam up to 7000RPM and said he never went over 4500/5000RPM and this was way before he was even thinking about selling it, he was moving to some outback place to buy a Pub with his misses and they had a new Commodore so he needed to sell the Civic quickly.


It spent most of it's life in Darwin.


The sound is worse when it is cold and when it is under load, slowing down and turning (growns and moans), the power steering gets tuff to steer and when I come to a stop it nearly stalls (drops to 100-300RPM) but never does.

Driving in a straight line at 60 and above k's there is no noise; also the motor still runs smooth, good acceleration.

It sounds bloody terrible; im getting it serviced and checked over within the next 2 weeks,

Where should I take it? I'm in Adelaide

Thanks in advance guys :wave:

[SiR JDM]

From wat i heard (or thought i heard o.O) sounds like ur exhuast is being restricted somewhere.. perhaps muffler or resinators...

but when your getting it serviced + checked they'll be able to tell u =)

[geo41e]

from ur description, dounds like the ig timin is off..

the sound clip sounds pretty bad...however that could be the lack of quiality wthin the recording..

get it checked asap.

[ECU-MAN]

with out being infront of the engine bay to hear where the noise is coming from , it sounds like there is a metalic sound in there, could be water pump or distributor bearing or power steering pump. I also notice timming belt wure when you reved it.
above is just a guide. really need to pin point the noisy area.

nice idea of recording yor noise :thumbsup:

[bumography]

i had a similar problem in a mazda
but what happened was the key went to START and it didnt go back to ON cos it was stuck
had to push it back
u know how if ur cars already started, and u keep turning ur key to START position
does it sound like that?

[kwayzivietnamese]

sounds like an unhealthy turbo :p

[LVNIT]

Sounds similar to when my distributer bearing was on its last legs. However, my sound was there majority of the time, it didn't just stop at a certain speed. Can you pin point exactly where the sound is coming from at all?

[Phantasm]

Sounds like it could be a screwed power steering pump to me.
Explains the sound and negative affects on the car.
But im no mechanic....

[CivicSedanMan]

Thanks for all your input guys:)

The noise is coming from the right side of the motor, where all the pulleys are, i have been told it sounds like the following:

1.Power steering pump

2.Water pump

3.Pulley bearings

4.Timing belt

It has a metal sound to it, and it is coming from the pulley section.

Once again thanks peoples:wave:

[ECU-MAN]

hmm my guess is power stearing

[CivicSedanMan]

Thanks guys, the problem was the power steering (like ECU-MAN said) a bolt was loose and was loosing fluid,

ECU-MAN rocks :)

[ECU-MAN]

...:o