accelerating-ticking?

[91accord4door]

how come my 1991 ex makes a ticking sound when it is accelerating?it is annoying,how much does it costto get the valve lash done,another question is can you replace the flex pipe one cb7's exhauset's with straight pipe??please help thank u

[xplode]

is it a sound coming from exhaust or the engine bay which you are speaking of because if its a high pitched notice going from first gear and ends in second it could be either engine or exhaust?

[91accord4door]

it is only going from first to second and it is in the engine bay in the area of the valve cover,its just annoying and i do not want to brake anything but ya its only going from first to 2nd thanks

[xplode]

shit, well i had that on my cb7 before i lost it, it is a high pitched kind of noise, like Reeeeeerrr, i dunno what it does, mine used to go away when i ran it real hard, but then came back when the car was cold. it even sounds weird when i used to accel in it... i was never sure what it is. it definately wasnt exhaust, its gotta be from the engine, might be valves?.. fizzbob would know alot more on that subject than i would.. but adjusting the valves might have something to do with it.

[91accord4door]

yaits fucked sometimes it dont even do it,but your right it definetely is the valves not exhaust,maybe i'll get my valves ajusted,wonda how much thats gonna be

[xplode]

hmm. i have no idea because i took it to my honda dealership to check out the noise .. tell them that you are hearing a noise coming from the engine bay and that you think it could be the valves and have em take a look under the valve cover, depending on what it takes to fix it could cost maybe 200 bux max.. if that.. depends wuts wrong.

[accordztech]

valve adjustment ....

it doesn through first and second? mine does it under 2k rpm...

id rather not have honda 'take a look ' at it...id rather just say do a valve adjustment if its the problem cause they will charge 80 bucks and really honda doesnt know jack shit...if u just tell em to do a valve adjustment then they will only charge 80..but if they check it...its extra 80 for them to give you their 'professional diagnossis'

take it to some small shop...its not hard to do a valve adjustment....save u some cash...thats if its a valve adjustment

[xplode]

either way, im used to taking it to the dealership for everything that goes wrong, but thats just me... i dont know how to re adjust them myself.. but either way you might want to have it checked out.

[h22sparkle]

its prbably the power steering pully or the timing belts. I hear sometimes under load they swueek you know.

[xplode]

it sounds like hes not talking of a squealing sound tho that would be associated with the belts.