Re: [DML] Re: Burnout and new sound

["Bruce Benson" <delornut@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Andy,

What you've described doesn't sound like a blown exhaust gasket or a muffler
problem. I really don't think a one time shot at burning a little rubber (
jeez can you do that with a DeLorean? ) would cause major problems. Worst
case scenario is something happened to the clutch but I'd suggest driving it
for a while to let any "guilt" related issues subside. I don't mean to make
this sound like you're imagining things. I think you're like me in that you
are working on the car yourself and looking very closely at results. When
you push the car to a level that you conceive as possibly causing
damage....well, sometimes you react by being over critical and start to look
for problems. If there is a problem I'd look closely at various engine and
drive train components to see if anything may be touching some part of the
car and possibly be causing the harmonic sound you hear. The sounds you
describe don't sound as much like a mechanical  problem as something
resonating through the car.  You say you only really notice it at idle
speeds and it seems like a low resonance which doesn't fit a mechanical
problem. One would assume problematical mechanical sounds would increase
along with the everything else as the car accelerates.

Bruce Benson







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