Toyota MR2 Spyder: ticking/rattling coming from top end

[allout13]

i know what it is this is the sound all the 1zz makes befor they start to drink oil. time for a new motor soon.

it can be from 2 things

Pre cat fail
or
the rings gave out and oil concuption is about to start like a quart a mile when it gets bad

nope
pre cat was gutted when I got the car. I put probably 5 or 6k miles on the motor like this and had no abnormal oil usage.

Rod knock doesn't always go away when the cars accelerating, hell I have had cars only knock between x rpms and load on acceleration... just fyi. And they wouldn't knock at idle.

fwiw it ended up being rod knock
1 and 3 were spun