well i finished my 3.5 swap, everything is running fine except for couple of things...

1) idle is high, due to not having iacv but that will get fixed

and number 2 the most annoying thing..........i'm getting a crazy loud extremely loud what seems to be road noise. i mean it's LOUDDDD. You don't hear it when you're not moving or in neutral and reving the engine. you hear it only when the car is moving. I'm lowered on D2 coilovers, and running on enkei rpm2. I switched the back tires to the front because i though it was the tires, but it didn't go away. so i don't know what the heck it is. I supsect something with the axle, hub bearing? Well here's the video...see if you guys can knock any sense into this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=giazz7M_P9Y

 

that is pretty loud.

Have you checked all conections?
examine the potential areas it might be comming from
any change in performance when you hear the noises


If your driving and you hear the noises and put the car in neutral does the noise go away?

 

i have narrowed it donw the the axle...i changed the brakes today and all noise coming from the bearing/brakes are gone. It only makes the nosie when the wheels are spinning. put the car in netural still makes the noise. If you but the car in netural and at a stop it's fine no noise. netural with clutch engaged and rev it...no sound. only sound is when the car is physically moving. I jacked the car up and it still makes the sound. no perfomance lost. everything works fine except for that noise. sounds like it's coming from the passenger axle...

 

well i'm thinking it's the bearing so i'm just going to replace the bearing and see what happens.

 

check to see if your brake's dust cover shielding is touching the rotors. When I did my swap, I had that shield bented a little bit, and it would make loud noises when I started driving. I had to bend it back in shape and the problem was gone.

-Peter-

 

it was touching but then i bend it back and replaced the brakes today too...i think wheel bearin is shot so i'm going to replace that.

 

A mechanic's s***hoscope is the best $5 I ever invested in my tool collection.

On a level surface, chock both back wheels and jack up the front. Take off the front wheels to promote safety. Have someone sit in the driver seat and run the engine with the tranny in gear.

Listen at both hubs and at the intermediate bearing on the passenger side drive shaft. You may not have reattached that bearing hanger to the block properly when you put your axle back in.