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Originally posted by MysticLlama
Mine makes the same sort of sound.

It really bothered me for a while, and still sorta does, but I was really worked it was pinging, and then I drove a 74 with a friend.... got that thing on the freeway and hit the gas, and wow, so THAT's what pinging sounds like. (needless to say, he didn't buy that one)

My problem is that I have to go up a hill to get to my house, and it's in a residential neighborhood. I have no cat and a Bursch muffler, so bombing up it in 1st or going 3500+ rpms in 2nd to keep the noise away is kinda out of the question unless I want someone to call the cops, it's just kinda rude anyway...

I do think it's tranny related though, can't hear it with the window down at all, and it goes away when you let up, and as long as you give it just barely enough gas to slowly accelerate when the hill gets a little shallower it goes away.

So hopefully I'm right and it's nothing serious, I recently had a full service/valve adjustment/plugs/distributor clean up/etc. as well.

Sounds like we are in the same boat. I wish the sound wasn't there, because otherwise, the engine's sound is like zen to me. Truly a sound to behold. (Can one behold a sound??)