VT (Variable Timing) "ticking sound"

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When you lift your hood and stare at the engine close up do you hear : tick tick tick in quick beats? Or slower like tick ... tick ... tick? Does your engine ever so slightly rock? Or is it perfectly balanced? I used to own a 2017 EX-T and seem to recall that the base engine sounded differently as far as the tick sound and I don't recall a balance issue. Perhaps a bit of OCD going on but I was hoping or at least thinking a fully non moving idle engine is better than a rock front to back suggesting to me it's out of balance? Or is this normal? Ease my mind here ...
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Direct Injection engines are loud. Funny, today I was idling next to a current gen accord sport and out engines were loud just sitting there.
 

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That is just the Injectors cycling; don’t be alrmed.
FWD - Engine movement front to back / Never side to side
V8s - side to side / never front to back
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