nEED SOME SERIOUS HELP ASAP!!...PLEASE. - Honda Prelude Forum

ANIAK'S_LUDE · 01-14-2009, 09:52 PM

...ok well first of all i have a 1997 honda prelude SS tho...and damn i been having serious problems latelly with some noise under my hood...like a clicking noise the faster i go the faster is does it...it all staterted when i did my oil change and i changed it to sentatic oil..Roral Purple 20-50 cuz my car has 150.000 miles on it and three days later it started makin that noise..people were tellin me maybe it was too thin tO try soomething thicker or that lucas sentatic stabalizer so i did and it help a bit but it just came back on so then i ask AutoBacs and they said i probably need it my valves adjust so i took it to the shop to do it but the noise just came back on so they change the oil for me back to regular oil and also put a bottle of DuraLube and said to give a few days..well that never worked or maybe it did but exactly one week later i check my oil and it was beyond dry...but thats impossible rite???....

SO NOW WHAT SHOULD I DO I DONT WANNA KEEP TRYING THINGS AND WASTING MY MONEY...I WAS THINKIN ABOUT A OIL CATCH CAN TOO CUZ I DO HAVE AN AEM SHORT RAM INTAKE SO IT WOULD HELP WITH THE OIL BUT DO I HAVE A LEAK AND WHERE DO I CHECK OR WHATS GOING ON PLEASE HELP....ANYBODY PLEASE....

RomPirate · 01-15-2009, 12:31 AM

Its not impossible to have it dry. Its very possible.

Possibilities:
1) Whoever did your oil change didnt put enough oil
2) You car runs is burning up the oil really fast.

An oil catch can wont do you much good. Good only if your boosted, which your likely not..

The switching from 5-30 could have done it... Who suggested it to you?

I'm no oil guru, but my bets on the rapid jump from 5-30 to 20-50.

ANIAK'S_LUDE · 01-17-2009, 04:44 PM

no well i know they put enough oil plus they put a full bottle of duralube too...

...anyways a week later know and i put more oil and its doing good so yea thats weird but will see in the next days how good it bruns it...hopefully its ok now...

..but about that clicking noise is still their and damnn its gettin me mad...i dont even care how much i spent i just want my car to run 100%...oh and one more thing i notice while drinving my car is that when i go over rpms of 3 the noise seems to go away..or maybe it just does it so fast i cant hear it but even other people have told me that once i hit rpms of 3 and over the noise goes away...so whats going on...is it fixable tho...please help...

golfradict · 01-18-2009, 06:40 PM

Could be an exhaust leak right at the manifold. I have heard these before and they make a clicking sound.