[s-cars] Loud Scraping noise: Transmission? Driveshafts?

[chris chambers]

Could it be a heat shield that has come loose, potentially scraping on
a drive shaft?

Chris
 
--- Paul.Park at colorado.edu wrote:
> Hey guys,
> 
> The Audi gods have punished me.
> 
> Under relatively hard acceleration in 3rd gear(not past 5KRPM), the
> car began
> making some awful scraping noises. I thought that my entire exhaust
> was hanging
> on the ground. As I go faster, it gets louder. If I come to a stop,
> it takes a
> while for the scraping noises to stop, as if whatever's scraping, is
> rotating
> to a stop.
> 
> When I mean loud, I mean dominates the cabin, even with windows
> closed. It
> sounds really loud outside of the car as well.
> 
> I just did the clutch, so could I have messed up aligning the
> driveshafts? The
> car engages gears fine, it shifts fine...so I don't know what else it
> could be.
> 
> Paul
> -always awaiting the bad news.
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