Your hot exhaust is cooling down and the metal is making a ping sound, chances are though, that your exhaust is possibly getting too hot, or has some loose components inside or bolted to it.
If your exhaust rattles at all, you may need to replace the muffler, and if you car has a trouble code related to misfire, or catalytic converter there may be too much fuel in the exhaust and is too hot.
It is probably your cooling fans. These are electric and may run with the engine turned off. It is probably your cooling fans. These are electric and may run with the engine turned off.
I will take a stab at the answer....... Do you live in a hot climate? If so, when the engine is hot and possibly a new exhaust was installed, the clicking would be the exhaust cooling off. Sound good ?
Because quite a lot of the energy used by a combustion engine gets turned into heat whether we want it or not, so a cooling system is needed to keep the engine from overheating.
On the front and rear of what?? The Air Intake Manifold is on the TOP of the engine. the Exhaust Manifold are on the sides of an engine. On a front wheel drive vehicle, the engine is turned 90 degrees, so the exhaust manifold appears to be on the front and back of the engine, below the valve covers.
If your talking about it doing that after you have turned off the engine then yes. That's just the hot exhaust pipes and catalytic converter contracting as they cool.
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Maybe your cooling system needs to be flushed out.
Yes, adding a turbo to a N/A engine can, it the cooling system can't handle the extra heat the extra power will generate. It alos can on a factory turbo car, if the boost is turned up too high, causing excessive exhaust backpressure/egt.
Engine hot and fan cooling it down?Fan temperature sensor bad and it just thinks engine is hot and needs to be cooled down
One of the fans operates independently of the air conditioning system. The other fan will only operate if the air conditioning system is turned on and the engine needs extra cooling to exhaust the heat transferred to the engine coolant by the operation of the A/C. They both are tirggered into operation by thermostatic switches but not the same switches. They are independent of one another. CAUTION: Do not confuse these thermostatic switches with the actual cooling system thermostat contained in the engine block that controls the flow of the coolant.
It forms the 'body' of the engine - it is a lump of metal machined to take the crank shaft, oil and cooling ducts and the pistons. It is where the 'explosions' of ignited fuel are contained and turned into rotary motion.
When the a/c is turned on in any auto it makes the engine work harder, this will tend to heat the engine more. Make sure that your cooling system in the car is running properly, and is full of cooling fluids.