If you are ever around Raleigh let me know, I'll listen to it. I know my way around a 5.7 pretty well after 10 years and 163k miles.
one of the side effects of owning mopar.
If you are ever around Raleigh let me know, I'll listen to it. I know my way around a 5.7 pretty well after 10 years and 163k miles.
If you are ever around Raleigh let me know, I'll listen to it. I know my way around a 5.7 pretty well after 10 years and 163k miles.
Check the plastic upper intake bolts, they are known to loosen. It's something like 15 lbs ft but double check that number. On my 5.7 they were all a full turn loose before I torqued them
As to the Demon replicas... Discount usually has good sales around the holidays. I've bought a couple sets of wheels, buy 4 get a visa gift card, use their card get another visa gift card.
As to the ticking... I never saw a reply to my question if the big engine cover is installed. The sole purpose of that cover is to mask the loud fuel injector ticking.
Congrats!Well, a couple of days ago I made a purchase, that I'v been wanting to make for quite some time now. Been saving and looking for well over a year seriously and finally went ahead and pulled the trigger. In truth, I'v wanted one since I got my drivers license. She ain't brand new, but she's brand new to me! I picked up this gorgeous 2015 Dodge Charger R/T this past week. I had previously only driven 4 cylinder cars as my main transportation. Fellas, let me tell ya, 5 minutes into the test drive and I was hooked. I was like, "Huh, so that's what having actual power under the hood sounds and feels like". It was quite a bit of money, (for me anyway) but I wanted it. I know we have a fair share of Dodge haters here, but for me it's Mopar or no car. Always has been. Raised that way. I'm already looking into changing a few things on her. I'd really love to get some professionally done 2 stripe racing pattern across the entirety of the body, I really think a slick set of blacked out rims would look excellent on it, with the tinted windows and black grill. Maybe down the road get a flowmaster exhaust or something similar installed. She's plenty loud, but I want her louder. LOL
Just tickled pink to see her sitting in my driveway boys. (plz ignore the poor photo quality and snapchat filters. Haven't taken too many pics yet)
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Also, to my dodge guys, is it possible to just have this particular section replaced, or would that require a whole front bumper swap?
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Yep, I had one that had them. You better hope they had a slight click to them.Good thing you weren't around in the solid lifter days. If the engine wasn't clicking, you had problems.
@CarolinaReaper, not to go back several pages to quote, I'll just share a bit of info here, although I'm sure with the timing it6a moot point now. Gas. Stations normally have two types in the ground. Regular and premium. Mid grade is only a mix of the two. If you can see the pumps fuel meter (not the one you look at while pumping), you can tell which tank the fuel is coming from as they have two mechanical meters on each pump. One for each in ground tank. When running mid grade, both meters roll...
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Also, to my dodge guys, is it possible to just have this particular section replaced, or would that require a whole front bumper swap?
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So just a quick update fellas for any of you who may care.
The "ticking" noise is still present and audible. I have now had THREE different auto shops look at her and tell me that that noise wasn't indicative of anything a miss in the engine that will hurt it. They all just keep telling it's a normal hemi noise and to just drive on. Yeah, well, Okay I guess. Just gonna have to get over it I suppose. I got the exhaust straight piped last week. Absolutely LOVE the way it sounds. Took her in today for a full synthetic oil change. I had noticed a slight rubbing noise coming from my front right tire. They ended up having to do a front end alignment because I basically had one tire going one direction and another going a different way. Which added up, because the side that was messed up was where the rubbing noise was coming from. They printed me out a chart and a picture to show me just how bad it was. It didn't look good. One tire was showing a decent amount of wear vs the others. So had that taken care of. Shes still running very well, but I just can't get over that damn ticking racket, but I guess there ain't much I can do, other than to have someone tear the motor apart and spend a couple thousand dollars, which I ain't gonna do. I had hoped the oil change may have helped lubricate the cams a little better, but so far the noise is the same.
Also, my exhaust had 2 very tiny holes around one of the clamps, The muffler shop pointed that out to and let me actually hear where air was leaking out. So I had them weld it and throw those cheap clamps away.
I think QC on most of the header companies have gone to crap. I have welded a bunch of them for folks for reasons just like you. It was easier to get someone to fix them (if you could get to the spot to TIG them) than it would be to take them off send them back and get another set and put on and risk having a hole in them.as far as the exhaust is concerned, the clamps arenāt always bad. Most of the time they can be tightened or replaced. Welds are hard to change without cutting and more welding. Just a thought out there for ya.
I put on a new set of headers that had a couple pinholes from the factory.....they are still there due to the factory wanting them sent back for proof and headers are just not something you feel like taking off.
Every charger with a 5.7 Iāve had would tick while idling and Iāve driven the ever loving crap out of them to put it mildly. Never had any engine trouble but have worn out the front suspension on two different ones a 2013 and a 2016.
Sweet ride man. I would have gotten a challenger, but all the ones I found locally were either a V6 or had tons more miles.
every time I open this thread, I get disappointed. I keep expecting to see pictures of it wrapped around a tree.Glad to see you posting. Was starting to worry you've been in a ditch somewhere the last week or so!
Glad to see you posting. Was starting to worry you've been in a ditch somewhere the last week or so!
I can't hear it for you but there are a fair few cars that tick. Drive it in good health, get the oil changed on time, pay attention to the service intervals in the manual. No experience personally with the mopars but I can verify I've heard it with a couple others.Well, the dealership service department had my car for about an hour and a half. They pulled it around and called me up front. I walk up and ask the guy, in a joking manner, "So, is she a ticking time bomb?" He laughs a little and says I have nothing to worry about, that the noise was normal engine noise for those engines and the techs couldn't hear or find anything wrong. So either I'm a total idiot or that service tech didn't wanna fix anything. Who knows. I guess I'll just have to get used to hearing it while driving around.