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Couple weeks ago I was driving a roadtrip that's approx. 900 miles back to my parents house.
When I was about 150 miles away from the destination some light tapping noise came up so I pulled in a stop area and checked the ball joints and tie rods and other suspension parts to see if something snapped. At that time the sound was not very loud so I figured it's probably the engine mount metal hitting (since the engine mount has been slowly going since a year ago) so I kept on driving.
After like another 20-30 miles the noise got a lot louder (I was able to hear it with my windows up and music on) so I stopped the car and found out the tapping noise is relative to the RPM. After some googling I convinced myself it could be the rod knocking so I called a tow truck and towed it to destination.
There's no check engine light popped up, I am pretty sure that the codes has not been disabled and the light bulb is working lol. Does the rod knock just came out like this, instant dealth? Or could it be, even though I highly doubt, anything else that is causing the noise?
The car has 185k on it, I have never rebuild an engine should I try rebuilding this engine or pay a shop to get a replacement crate/junkyard engine?
The noise sound very similar to this WRX in this video (skip to 1m24s):

Luckily I have my daily 4EAT 02 WRX to drive but now I am kind of scared, hopefully that car wont crap out on me like this too.
When I was about 150 miles away from the destination some light tapping noise came up so I pulled in a stop area and checked the ball joints and tie rods and other suspension parts to see if something snapped. At that time the sound was not very loud so I figured it's probably the engine mount metal hitting (since the engine mount has been slowly going since a year ago) so I kept on driving.
After like another 20-30 miles the noise got a lot louder (I was able to hear it with my windows up and music on) so I stopped the car and found out the tapping noise is relative to the RPM. After some googling I convinced myself it could be the rod knocking so I called a tow truck and towed it to destination.
There's no check engine light popped up, I am pretty sure that the codes has not been disabled and the light bulb is working lol. Does the rod knock just came out like this, instant dealth? Or could it be, even though I highly doubt, anything else that is causing the noise?
The car has 185k on it, I have never rebuild an engine should I try rebuilding this engine or pay a shop to get a replacement crate/junkyard engine?
The noise sound very similar to this WRX in this video (skip to 1m24s):
Luckily I have my daily 4EAT 02 WRX to drive but now I am kind of scared, hopefully that car wont crap out on me like this too.