I know. I just found out what the problem was. At first I thought it was a bit of valve or lifter tick but I couldn’t pin point it.
It started right at the end of the season and when I was driving the car to put into storage I noticed it was louder than before. I figured it had to be an exhaust leak. I was prepping the car for the summer last weekend and I found that the valve train is fine. This was further confirmed by the smell of nasty exhaust gas under the hood that didn’t match to smell from the exhaust pipes.
Point is, the car is 45 minutes from my house right now so I question when its coming out because I need to get my ass out to my mother’s to pick it up.
The exhaust leak was more of a side note. I’m just lazy/busy.
Oh and what I meant by not wanting to spend money was, buying new gaskets (which is really just a time thing) or new headers (which is a time and money thing).