Actually, I'm not sure exactly where the whine is coming from. It sounds like I'm having the opposite symptoms of the throwout bearing going bad.
First, the car: 1999 GT convertible, 5speed manual.
When I crank the engine, there is a whine coming from under the hood. If I barely rest my foot on the clutch pedal (or fully depress the pedal, for that matter), the whine goes away. The sound is present whether I am in neutral and stationary or running down the highway at 80mph. This all started a couple of weeks after I was run off of an entrance ramp by an inanttentive truck driver. The car ended up with the front wheels hanging over the edge of a culvert. I intend to get it into a body shop for repairs at some point, but I'm more concerned with this mechanical problem at the moment. It's possible the whine/squeal is unrelated to the "accident", but I have a feeling something got shifted in a bad way.
Has anybody got any insight as to what could be causing this noise? I'm going to let a shop go over the car from top to bottom to check for any hidden (or obvious) damage, but I wanted to get the input of the group on the squeal before I let a repair shop take me for a ride...
TIA for any help and SWAGs!
-- David C. Blakely