If you're not already in the "rock grider under my wheel wells" club... Ah high heat brake pads, how I love thee at the drive through.

 

What is the process for this exactly? Cause my lifters are way loud, I think I may need to do this.

 

http://www.joe250.com/cars/evo8/cams...ftlifters.html

Good how-to there.

 

yea I bled them. they are no tick lifters also. I still get a little bit of valve train noise but not too bad.

 

im gonna try and swap the knock sensor this weekend with someone and see what that does

 

Get some det-cans while youre at it.

 

Is there a company that sells det cans? I used a home built pair before, and they are ok, but on a dyno I can hear the motor better with them off.

It may have been the ones I was using though, but I am un-aware of any professional product made.

JR

 

Thanks, I am almost positive it is my lifters. They only seem to be loud when my car is cold and from about 2.5k to 3.5k RPMs. Anything higher or once its warmed up seems to go away. This common?

 

I haven't seen any, sorry.

 

Yah that's pretty common, at any rate they're not hard to bleed, and if it didn't get done before it doesn't hurt to do it now. Just make sure you get them all filled up again before you start romping on it after.

You could even have a collapsed lifter if they didn't get bled before, the pressure on them can blow out the internal seal. It'll tick at low rpm and/or when the engine is cold since that's when oil pressure is lowest. When you get into higher RPM or warm engine conditions, there's enough pressure to pump the lifter back up again if it's collapsed.

 

Thats what my friend was thinkin was a collapsed lifter cause of how it was acting...this wont hurtin anyting right?

 

Cam break in is more prevalent with flat tappet style cams which are common in pushrod V8's. Still not a bad idea though.

 

Supposedly it can cause phantom knock and power loss (from pulled timing etc.), but I don't know that it will hurt anything necessarily. But I haven't looked too deep into what it causes, so someone else probably knows more than I do.

 

I win

 

So I got my ghetto boost leak tester built yesterday. Pretty awesome! lol.


I think being up that early still counts as kinda losing though