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might want to open the bonnet & let the little feller out for some fresh air.or possiably get the hampster some new shoes that have a softer sole.
no I havent heard any thing like that execpt for when the ac drain was pluged up in the wifes honda & you could hear the water rushing from side to side.
I do get a weird noise from my car when I hit certain depressions on the road; I've looked at it and can't see nothing wrong plus I lube up the front end with my oil changes and valve adjustments every 3K miles so I just quit worrying about it. It doesn't sound like loose pebbles though. Only thing I can think of would be some little parts like nuts, bolts or other fasteners inside the reinforcing frame tubing?
Wheel bearing/adjustment?
If you look under your dash there's one of the tubes of the frame that goes across; apart from that one I believe the rest are fiberglassed over. If I were you I'd also lube the front end just in case; as your experience as well as mine and other folks' have shown we need to go through these cars completely immediately after delivery. You car is looking gorgeous too so my advice is to do as I have and be positive and enjoy the process of doing this. It'll make it even more enjoyable when you finally sort her out and get to really drive her. After almost 9 years I'm still improving mine. Today I sprayed the wiper arms and blades silver to make them look closer to an original; as you know new VS builds come with black. They came out great. Last week I tweaked the generic seat belt buckles to make them more Porsche like and retouched them with black paint and applied some Porsche crests. This is such a blast. You'll be golden; I garontee; as Justin Wilson used to say.
Pebbles will get tossed up and bounce off the wheel wells (over and over)
Yeah, I hear the pebbles too. Fiberglass wheel wells amplify everything. But seriously, jack up the front and spin the wheels listening for any bearing grinding and grab the wheel and try to turn it side to side and grab the bottom and top of the wheel and push one in and the other hand pull out. Check for bearing play because sometimes you get play after a few miles are driven.
yup still plan on coming up, do I need to bring any thing???you have floor jack? jack stands? tools?might have a quick looksee under to try to find your marbles,I lost mine years ago, but somethen still rattels around in there.
You're absolutely sure you didn't run over Pebbles?
Could there be something floating around in the center tunnel or door shells? Maybe a golf ball or some nuts or bolts? You could pull carpet back on front wheel wells and the foot firewall and apply some DynaMat there and then glue carpet back. Could do same with door shells.
I can second Danny P.'s thought..... I've had a bearing ball wear down and "skid in the race every so often..... Easy to spot... Jack up the front end and spin each tire/rim.... check for ANY noise or roughness.... Hope this helps...
I just went through something similar. After Carlisle last year I drove down to D.C. to pick up my wife, Alice whi was visiting our daughters family. We rolled out of there one morning very early in a driving rain and I kept hearing a rumbling noise---or "bumping" sound under the car sorta towards the front---like inder the beam, and this turned out to be a wheel bearing gone bad.
I learned that one good test of the bearings is to get the wheels off the ground and grab the tire by the top and the bottom and try to move it in and out---to wobble the tire and wheel. If there is any play, that is a good indication of a bad bearing. My rear bearings went out at 20,000 miles and the fronts at 34,000.
I made it all the way home on that bad front bearing and on inspection it was truly shot with the bearings falling out. I was surprised it ran 1,500 miles after I heard that rumbling. The bearing on the other side looked perfect but I changed them both.
If there are any lateral metal tubes welded to your chassis to stiffen the frame, most likely they were welded via a MIG welder. Often times, bits of molten steel from the fill wire will fall of into the tube and will roll around causing quite a noise problem.
Although the bad bearing theory is very plausible I tend to go with what Larry says; this is a new build and being that it's got a new disc brake system; the whole thing should be new: rotors, spindles and consequently, bearings.
Hi Ricardo--I didn't recognize you as yourself with that "Impala" name.
I a have always wondered if new bearings were always installed in replicas. I have suspected that you get what was in that frame and front end as the replica mfg received it. Hope I'm wrong.
Anyone know about this?
Lemon Law?
Years ago, while driving my 1970 Beetle, I heard a noise while turning corners. Turned out to be wheel bearings.
The east coast crew(not me, I was working on something else) changed out a bad wheel bearing on a very new Beck at Carlisle last year. Carey said they had a batch of bad ones, so new doesn't mean the bearing ISN'T the problem.
Sounds like a sway bar dipping in the turns to me. You need to mark it foward of the beam and take it off and bend it upwards 3 inches on both ends. to stop that mess..
Maybe something on the front part of the pan under the "trunk" and behind the front axle. Remove a front tire and check around with a flash light,
I would pull the door panels and take a look inside. I always find stuff floating around in there.
I had a few clunks when I first got my car. Remember, it was built at Carlisle in 16 hours by a bunch of the folks on this site. The clunks turned out to be a 15" screwdriver and a set of wire cutters left in various spots in the engine compartment by the exhausted build team 
. Both have come in handy on occasion 
Lane, does there exist a chronological visual history of your speedster being built at Carlisle?
I'll see if I can find the link to the pictures that were taken during the build.
Lane, Gordon has been looking for those tools for years now!
He can't have 'em back 
Carl, here is a link to the pictures from the '06 build at Carlisle: http://www.theta.net/~nichols/...arlisle06/index.html
The first picture is not related to the rest of 'em. The poster just thought the car and trailer were cool. They are.
T,
Did you ever find the "marbles"?
I think it's literally pebbles on the road. Have not heard it again and happens only on certain roads...meaning I cannot make it happen when I drive to a certain area. Yeah strange but I thinks it's little pebbles. Marksbug and if found a bunch of pebbles in back of engine bay as well since the car is not fully enclosed in back end around wheel well areas.
Literally Pebbles on the road...for sure.
Is that a bone in your hair or are you just happy to see me
Pebbles with a bone = Tranny problems...
so her trans vest is tight? say it aint so.No wonder why bam bam is always beaten on somethen.
To remind you about wheel bearings some front spindle on these cars use the smaller 1966 outer bearing and most use the 1970 outer bearing Just make sure it fits tight on you spindle before you pack it with grease..
