My engine has never seen the same oil twice in a row...roughly it has seen OEM fill, M1, Pennz Plat, M1, GC, Chevron, Pennz Plat and now Havoline(in sump now) All have been 5W30 and SM except for the GC(0W30) and the Chevron which was SL. No additives were ever added to the oils except for the last time I had Pennz Plat in there...I also added 4 oz of VSOT and 4oz of initial dose of LC and 3 more oz of LC roughly over 3k miles.
If you have ever had a car with this engine I guess you not be opposed to me calling it a bit of a chatterbox no? Well it has never been that quiet of a engine no matter what oil I have put in there...to be honest it seems like it chatters more with synth in there...why is that?
I thought it was sort of loud and what I mean by noise is imagine this...when just driving slowly around a parking lot and you give it a little gas it sounds like someone taking a tiny hammer and banging it on the engine about a 1000 times a minute...not like the engine is going to explode..just an annoying sound...or another analogy could be the sound that a baseball card makes when it is a bike tire just more metallic(geeeez remember putting those cards in there? Who cared then if it was a rookie Reggie Jackson then)
It seemed like the Chevron quieted it down a bit but now with Havoline in there it sounds a lot louder even though they are corporate twins almost in their makeup? Could it be that there is that big of a difference between SL and SM types? It also was pretty noisey at the beginning of my OIC with PP in there but quieted down about 1k after I added the VSOT...started to get louder right before I did my most recent OIC...VSOT wearing out? I'm sort of a little gun shy of adding any VSOT to Havoline due to the large amount of moly in there
Ok it's late and I'm rambling..bet you wish you had that 2 minutes of you life back eh?
So in closing...1.8L 1ZZFE owners...do your engines sound similar to this? Pretty buzzy and makes the clicking clacking noise while accelerating or driving around slowly? I think the Corolla is more insulated than the Matrix so that could play a part in it...is this the valvetrain, injectors, timing chain?
Goose
PS any ideas on possibly quieting it down also? I thought Havoline would do it but no go....oh just to drag this out a bit further...coming back from NJ last week I filled up in CT with my first tank ever of 10% ethanol in the gas....could this contribute to the noises? I swear the car hasn't been running as good since I had the tank of gas in it 2 fillups ago...hey ok I'm reaching I guess
If you have ever had a car with this engine I guess you not be opposed to me calling it a bit of a chatterbox no? Well it has never been that quiet of a engine no matter what oil I have put in there...to be honest it seems like it chatters more with synth in there...why is that?
I thought it was sort of loud and what I mean by noise is imagine this...when just driving slowly around a parking lot and you give it a little gas it sounds like someone taking a tiny hammer and banging it on the engine about a 1000 times a minute...not like the engine is going to explode..just an annoying sound...or another analogy could be the sound that a baseball card makes when it is a bike tire just more metallic(geeeez remember putting those cards in there? Who cared then if it was a rookie Reggie Jackson then)
It seemed like the Chevron quieted it down a bit but now with Havoline in there it sounds a lot louder even though they are corporate twins almost in their makeup? Could it be that there is that big of a difference between SL and SM types? It also was pretty noisey at the beginning of my OIC with PP in there but quieted down about 1k after I added the VSOT...started to get louder right before I did my most recent OIC...VSOT wearing out? I'm sort of a little gun shy of adding any VSOT to Havoline due to the large amount of moly in there
Ok it's late and I'm rambling..bet you wish you had that 2 minutes of you life back eh?
So in closing...1.8L 1ZZFE owners...do your engines sound similar to this? Pretty buzzy and makes the clicking clacking noise while accelerating or driving around slowly? I think the Corolla is more insulated than the Matrix so that could play a part in it...is this the valvetrain, injectors, timing chain?
Goose
PS any ideas on possibly quieting it down also? I thought Havoline would do it but no go....oh just to drag this out a bit further...coming back from NJ last week I filled up in CT with my first tank ever of 10% ethanol in the gas....could this contribute to the noises? I swear the car hasn't been running as good since I had the tank of gas in it 2 fillups ago...hey ok I'm reaching I guess