Engine ticking after autocross

[HokieZHP]

Here's the engine video that I took of the engine ticking...

http://s438.photobucket.com/albums/q...t=a1250d63.mp4

And here's the crappy ghetto rigged iphone video I took of me running the track haha. First time I had ever done an Autocross course. I talked to the organizer who was out there earlier after the event re-configuring the track and he said I could come out and run it a couple times tonight. I may enter tomorrow just for the hell of it to see how I do...

I ran a 1:04.6 here on Conti DWS'. The clinking is my keys btw.

http://s438.photobucket.com/albums/q...3D1da466f1.mp4

[Mike V]

If you heard how an E36 M3 ticks like crazy after an autocross run or two, you wouldn't be too worried about your minor ticking. It even takes nearly 10 minutes of driving on the highway until it finally goes away. It freaked me out the first time too.

Hornung, are you in Branson on vacation? I live just 2 hours north of there.

[az3579]

Definitely normal. You could fill a little bit more oil, as Kyle said, but the problem is never going to go completely away. The ticking will always happen after lots of directional changes, such as what happens at auto-x. Mine does it every single time. I'm not worried about it. There aren't really any BMWs that I've seen that it doesn't happen to, granted the car gets pushed hard enough.

Let the car run for a few minutes after. You'll notice the ticking will eventually cease and normal sounds will resume.

[M0nk3y]

Here's the engine video that I took of the engine ticking...

http://s438.photobucket.com/albums/q...t=a1250d63.mp4

And here's the crappy ghetto rigged iphone video I took of me running the track haha. First time I had ever done an Autocross course. I talked to the organizer who was out there earlier after the event re-configuring the track and he said I could come out and run it a couple times tonight. I may enter tomorrow just for the hell of it to see how I do...

I ran a 1:04.6 here on Conti DWS'. The clinking is my keys btw.

http://s438.photobucket.com/albums/q...3D1da466f1.mp4

Interesting course....and at night?

I'd go to a SCCA event. That course set-up was completely off. ALOT of mis-marked cones.

[HokieZHP]

Interesting course....and at night?

I'd go to a SCCA event. That course set-up was completely off. ALOT of mis-marked cones.

That was a SCCA event. And It was at night because I saw the course and the guy said I could drive it a few times for fun. I've never done AutoX before so I didn't know whether the cones were good or not.

[SoarinZHP]

Perhaps a dry sump oil system would alleviate future lifter ticking as a result of extreme driving?

[nike001]

heh, mine did this my first time too!

I was scared shitless, but then it went away after a few minutes and never came back after my other runs so I let it slide. Glad to see it's normal though

[Johnmadd]

Is it back to normal Chris? I would have been like wtf too.

[HokieZHP]

Yeah it went back to normal after a couple minutes.

[Johnmadd]

Gtk.