So below is a quick video of the ticking I am hearing. Smoke is just from the first time the heat wrap is heating up. Wondering if somebody who has experienced lifter tick can tell me if this sounds like it. First start up was fine and at full temp I started hearing this. Flushed everything and tried again just out of curiosity and ticking wasn't there til it warmed up again.

Anyhow this was the first start up after doing some external work and for some reason it sounds like something inside it ticking. So for what was changed I went from FP red to a 6466 so water line looped and changed back to the head for an oil feed line. Got a ported TB/IM, BR double pumper and FIC 2150s now. Nothing was touched on the motor while on this was going on. Motor is stock other than S1 cams and ARP headstuds for now.

 

That sounds a bit loud to me to be lifter tick. A buddy of mine had a similar sound and turned out to be a stuck lifter. I would check there.

 

I have the same sound. It sometimes goes away after an oil change and then it returns. I have had mine checked out and it is fine. Mitsu had told me in the past that this was normal. Then again who knows.

 

every evo i have seen with aftermarket cams and stock lifters have had the tick. even if you took the squirters off and bled them, it would eventually come back. so you can either do that, or buy aftermarket lifters

 

It is louder than the usual tick though which is why I brought it up. I know all evos have a tick to it but this is louder and has a random rhythm I guess you could say to it rather than a set pattern to it.

 

I've got the same problem, I recently upgraded to GSC S2, shortly after got the tick, changed lifters to GSC zero tick, still there, changed again to top line revised lifters, now not so bad but still louder than when it was stock.

I would love to make it go completely away. Sometimes its there, sometimes its not.

 

Ya and I've heard of that but this got significantly louder without any change going on in the head. I don't think its just normal lifter ticking but not sure what else it could be

 

Have you pulled the VC off and checked everything and made sure you don't have a stuck lifter?