SR20DET Solid Lifters

[fliprayzin240sx]

I just got my car back from getting the bottom end rebuilt. The head had Tomei Solid Lifters with 270 cams on them. I just got them back, the head got fresh shims on it. I havent driven the car in over 6 months, but the thing thats bugging me, I dont remember it ticking this much...solid lifters really that loud?

[Opie]

Were the shims and guides measured properly for the Solid lifters?

If that was already done and the new shims are the right sizes, make sure that the shims and guides all made it back onto the valves in the EXACT same order they came off.

If all that is fine...yeah, your solid lifters are that loud.

[rc1honda]

I just had a head build and im getting a lot of lifter tap. So much so that may power FC is reading it as knock, which it can't be cuz it's under no load and if anything im running rich. Well in my research to solve the problem i found that the solid lifters have a lot of lifter tap. I pretty sure this is normal for the solid lifters. In my case u have to pull everything back out of the head an bleed the HLA to get rid of it but in your case i think thats the cost of the solid lifter. As long as it goes up with RPM and doesn'e effect your idle im think your fine.

[Sileighty_85]

Yeah that normal, If you come across a Pulsar GTIR, They have solid lifter in them.

I know there was a black one on base, my buddy had one and sold it to a guy on Kadena that lived in the dorms over by the middle school (Gate 5??)
Although the guy that bought fucked it all up (looks wise)

[4sfed180]

if shimmed properly solid lifters are not going to be any louder then hydraulics. look at just about any toyota engine. majority have solid lifters. 2jz, 3vz, 1mz, 4ag, 1jz, and all UZ series motors all have solid lifters. they purr like nobody's business.

take off the valve cover, get a set of feeler gauges, and measure what clearances you have. its the easiest way to tell lifter tap or otherwise.

on a performance or built motor(anything other then stock) i ususally run 0.008-0.010" on the intake and 0.010-0.012" on the exhaust.

good luck and keep us updated.

[fliprayzin240sx]

Well thats the thing, the guy who built the bottom end double checked to make sure the heads still good (Tomei everything, just been beat to hell and back), reshimmed the valves, and replaced one of the cams due to a somewhat clogged oil squirter. Im dropping it off again the next couple of days since I just got done putting in break in mileage on it, needs to get retuned. Ill double check with him...