Car runs fantastic, amazing performance. never lets me down.. all this ...accept for that DAMN sound!

Yes, that sound. The ticking sound, or the same sound of, if you take a laminated piece of paper, and stick it in a fan at home, it sounds almost identical, more so when you press on the accelerator.

I was told it was a rear exhaust manifold leak when I took it to get inspected. To get to this, he would need to take the car apart a little, wouldn't be a quick task. Just to get to the rear exhaust manifold gasket.

When I got the car back, it seemed like whatever he sealed with replacing a bolt and etc, it worked. It suppressed the sound almost completely, but then the next day it was there again.

The 100% almighty solution to fix it permanently with no chances of giving me BS would be replacing the head gaskets and cylinder heads I was told. Which is a $1000-1700 job. I got the car for $2000 so no thanks. Im just going to have to deal with the sound.., with the car still running like a champion.

For the record my Nissan Maxima (1993) has almost 241,000 miles on it, as of April 1st, 2010.