Oh god I hate this ****..

I guess the only bright side I ever looked at when my 94 GSR got stolen was that I didn't have to deal with the infamous 94-95 header rattle, lol..

but it striked tonight in my 99!!!

****!

I hate having to find it, blah - it's at about 1-3000 RPM and it's actually kinda loud... sounds like its coming directly under the car so hopefully its just a heatshield guess I'll check tomorrow!

 

sounds like cat. or heat shield

 

its not that big of a deal.

im sure its nothing worth ******* you over.

just a couple of bolts buddie

 

Yeah it's nothing to freak out about. Grab a 6 pack and you should be okay.

 

I had this same problem a couple of months ago. I just took off the heatsheild and voila! no more rattle. only downside is on rainy days, your muffler will get soaked and will rust quicker.

 

had the same prob...i just bent my heatsheild over the cat around and it took care of it...good luck

 

Hey, it could be worse -- at least you don't have the 3000 rpm buzz from your header to deal with...........yet.

 

its a 5 minute fix dude. get a hose clamp and tie the catalytic converter heat shield down...

 

also check the header mounting bracket, mine broke and it made an annoying *** rattle

 

my 95 GSR hade the rattle, i removed all the heatsheilds, new header gasket, and tighened all the bolts down really good. well it still rattled really bad. its the A pipe on the header (the bottom part) i bought a used 99 gsr header off of ebay and put it on, no more rattle.
try the heatsheilds first hopefully its that

 

p.s.

What foul language

 

Ok i'm not sure which rattle i'm experiencing so please bear with me.

I just got my Greddy Evo put on my 95 GSR

Now it was fine when I went to work, then when I'm driving home... it starts!

First I hear that rattle, that is common with all the integra's i guess. I had a 95 LS, that 3000 rpm rattle thats kinda like a buzzing.

Well occasionally I hear that now, but I also have this rattle that is really loud. Like sometimes when i'm just idling is when its the loudest and rattles the most. I'm going to assume that has to do with the cat heatshield and the header?

Anyway, can someone explain to me what to look for, what to do to fix the rattles (both!), and if possible show me a picture of what i should be lookin at and fixing? I'm still fairly new to the diy stuff, but my buddy does most of my car work. Basically I wanna know what to look for and how to fix it and get my hands dirty while i'm at it.

Thanks

 

check all the heatsheilds first. if they are all tight and dont rattle. its prob the a pipe on the header. jack the car up and hae someone rev it while your under it and see where it comes from.

 

why take off the heatshield? just bolt on the bolts tighter right?

 

OMG.... thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, whoever started this thread. My **** has been rattling forever.

 

no point in tighting the bolts if the heatshels is rusted around them, mine was

 

I had the same prob in my 1996 4dr gsr. What i did to fix it is to move the muffler "rubber bands" to the highest hanger. Under the car there is 2 "settings" for your muffler. When i move it to the higher hanger the muffler stop rattling .
My muffler was rubbing on the axle to make the buzzing noise.


Modified by Doglog18 at 9:15 PM 10/23/2003

 

its not the muffler rattling, it could be one of the pipes but i'm 99% sure its the cat/header/heatshield combo, the typical rattle almost every integra gets

 

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My vote: A pipe on header. I did the same as oMekoneDC2 on my 94 gsr except I replaced the factory setup with a dc 4-2-1, Rattle gone!
HTH
chris

 

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Man. I feel sorry for you. You should have taken care of it right away.
Heat shield rattles can cause a lot of problems including long term engine damage.
You need to get your car to a factory service center as soon as possible.
What happens is when the heat shield gets loose it is a symptom of a bad performing exhaust where the flow is incorrect and the pressure builds up and over time this causes your engine to overheat and if you've driven it like this for more than say 1000 miles the effect may be irreversible.


Just kidding.

Why wouldnt you just get this fixed? Why put up with that racket?
When you do get around to fixing it the heat shield has an upper part and
a lower part. Remove both of them to make sure your rattle doesnt come back.
These parts are totally useless anyway.

 

well eventually it just comes to the point where you don't notice it anymore

 

That doesn't stop everyone else from noticing it.
Its loud as hell and it was quite embarassing when my heat shield went on my type R..

 

fixed..

was the heat shield right after the CAT

 

 

I had the same prob with my 99gsr and it only had 48k miles on it. i bought me a jdm 4-1 header and now it has stopped. So im guessing it was the header making the same noise you are hearing.