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right so i went to honda to hear what they said, and they say "yea it could be the coils, but you might want to have the valves adjusted first"

so...gotta do that now. [IMG]i/expressions/face-icon-small-mad.gif[/IMG]

 
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which ticking noise were you talking about?

 
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the one where if you let the engine idle and listen under the hood its coming from the engine. im leaning toward replacing the coils though cause the first guy i asked seems like a far more knowledgeable mechanic. i dont think the valves need adjusting that bad with only 20k miles.

 
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the valves probably do need adjusting. the tick noise is very common. all honda's do it. i wouldn't worry about it so much.

 
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makes me wonder if my engine is doing it....i thought it was all normal, i do have 30K on the engine though

 
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if you want best performance...

 
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I had a ticking noise in my civic. Whenever I would turn to the right it would start clicking. I thought it was my bearings or my shocks, but come to find out, the newer civics, some of them had a manufactur recall because the fork in the transmission was breaking. Mine broke, and I took it to honda and they replaced it under my warranty. Your car wont break from this being broken, but it is kind of annoing riding around and it clinging.

Hope thats what your looking for..good luck!

 
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My engine has ticked since the day I got it...same with my brothers. I assume it's normal.

 
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omg you all have got to be kidding me. hahaha tick tick tick its called spark plug firing[IMG]i/expressions/laugh2.gif[/IMG][IMG]i/expressions/laugh2.gif[/IMG][IMG]i/expressions/laugh2.gif[/IMG]

 
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I wouldn't assume it's the spark plug firing. Otherwise every car would make that sound. A ticking sound on any of my cars other than my Honda would be a problem.

 
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a ticking at idle is not the coils, it's probably the valves and yes with only 20k on the clock you can get that with a car...you can get that with a car with 2 miles recorded on it depending on how much it was abused for those two miles.....if you continually stress the engine then you stretch components....i.e. valve stems...yes, they can stretch and that's why they have to be adjusted. If you've been continually revving your engine (due to vtec) to redline and such then you've been stressing your engine. regardless of whether you adjust the valves don't expect the noise to ever go completely away unless you replace them as there will always be a little gap now that you've stretched the valves and they've slapped the mating surface enough to cup it in areas to create the ticking....it is only aluminum you know....

anyway, don't be alarmed...they won't just snap off or anything...unless your timing gets off too far and they smack a piston and you drop a valve hahahahaha just fyi....

do this, slowly, very slowly rev the engine in neutral and listen to see if the noise picks up in level before disappearing. If it does then you know it's not the valves themselves or their adjustment points. it's probably something else causing low-level detonation at lower rpm's (notorious with aluminum blocks.....I've even heard of this problem with the old 69-70 aluminum blocked chevy guys). anyway, just trying to help.

-stackz