[Shotimes] Re: Sho cold related flatulance noises

[Steve Tatro]

Eric,

My '93 has made the same noise you mention for the past 4 winters.  Same
deal, where only if the garage gets reeeally cold overnight, or after
sitting out in sub-20 degree weather all day, will it make that noise.

Don *almost* has me convinced it's my filter bypass, but I don't know.
All I do know is that it hasn't caused my SHO to explode, everything is
functioning properly, no rod noise, no cam damage, valve lash is fine,
etc.

Mine makes this noise regardless of what kind of filter I use, that's
why I'm questioning it being the filter bypass.  I've tried the
Motorcraft, Mobil1, K&N, etc. and it still does it.

I'm thinking of wasting the $20 to buy some Mobil1 0W-30 to see if it
still occurs.  It happened last winter, when I ran Mobil1 5W-30, and it
happens now that I'm running Castrol GTX 5W-30, so we'll see.  I'll post
any more info I find to the list, but nobody will probably read it ;^)

Later,

Steve "Case of the cold-motor farts" Tatro
Red/Black '93 with 164k miles
Cincinnati, Ohio



-----Original Message-----
From: shotimes-admin@autox.team.net
[mailto:shotimes-admin@autox.team.net] On Behalf Of Eric Keller
Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2003 8:39 AM
To: shotimes@autox.team.net
Subject: [Shotimes] Re: Sho cold related flatulance noises


I know it's not the question you asked, but my '90 SHO
has always made the farting noise after a cold soak at temperatures less
than 20F.  At home, it lives inside an above freezing garage, but at
work it gets a nice cold soak.  No farting in the morning and a definite
farting after work.  Maybe the noise could be best described as farting
through a kazoo? 

It doesn't make me happy that it makes this noise, but
the car seems none the worse for it.  

Now if someone could solve the "stumble when you back
off the throttle in cold", I'd be happy.  It's too
cold to run the codes right now.  

I've definitly turned into a wimp in my old age.  When
I was 20, I worked at Trek bicycle in Wisconsin.  I
rode my bike 10 miles to work, at temperatures down to
-24F.  The second winter I was there, it never got
above 0 for 2 months.  When it hit 20, we all walked
three blocks to the store at break time in our
t-shirts.  They should evacuate that place in early
december each year. 

Eric
 

Ron DeReus says:
Subject: RE: [Shotimes] Buzzing/grinding on startup
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 02:23:37 -0600

I took that belt off during the Miami/Virginia Tech
game at about 30
degrees, checking for bad pulley bearings, and it
wasn't real fun to
contortion my hand up in there to loosen the
tensioner.  At the current 0 to
5 degrees, I think I'll hold my nose and let it fart!

The Lowrider's noise is obviously not temperature
related and the rest of
our car's noises only happen under 30 degrees.  If
anyone else out 
there is
experiencing a noise similar to what we're trying to
describe, and it's 
not
temperature related, please respond.  Curious if
Marlene is out there; 
does
SnowWind have this noise?

Ron DeReus
95MTX


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