Thank you for all the wonderful resources right off the bat dust! I'm going to check em all out right now, as for both of your answers about it being valve related, it's kind of hard for me to check, because it won't make the noise if i'm just in neutral and rev it, only if i'm in gear, and it's not like I can open the hood to pin point the sound since I dun own rollers But I'm definatley going to get it checked out, right now i'm babying the thing because I unfortunatley got the car the FIRST day it snowed here (in maine.) and So i've only had a chance to get the thing to 100 twice...

I'm actually in a really crappy position where my crummy job decided to lay me off right as I was making my 1st month's payment on the damn thing though, luckily it's tax returns time, so that'll help me keep on top of stuff while I get a new job!

I'd like to save my money up so I can toss it into the car when the snow melts though, what would you all suggest I do first? I figure, I'm not gonna do anything huge to it, just bolt-on type stuff like Intercooler, Catback etc, since the engines got a decent amount of miles on it thus far, i'm not gonna bother even thinking about or considering turbo related stuff, or anything that's higher end like that until I drop a new engine in.. but i'm sure you all have a better more straight forward answer for me! Thanks!