ka24e buildup questions: specifically valvetrain, lifter conversion

[tastyratz]

so im gonna boost the crap outta my ka24e and have a few questions. first, has anyone dealt with www.hybridka.com? if you click valvetrain under the ka24e main site it has a solid adjustable lifter conversion. Im going to be running a pretty aggressive custom cam from colt cams soon enough, and for only 250$ with these whats your ideas, opinions, etc on this? think its worth it? any idea what car that came out of or if its modified from something else or what? if i kept the stock hydraulics id have to pay for machine work (whatever 50-100) anyways when i put my cam in. I know that solid lifters are better too... is this something ill be able to bolt in and put in myself or what? anyone else seen anything on this? I googled the shit outta it but came up with nothing. also they have the 280sx turbo fuel pump listed as a good upgrade and I seen nothing on that as well.

last but not least... piston sets for 140$?!?!??! seems fishy to me at that price.

ka24e information can really suck to come up with. please no "get a dohc de, or an sr, rb, jdm tyte b16 yo" responses. Im gonna boost my sohc to ~300whp or so with an aem ems, a t3/t4 46 trim .48 ar ex and .50 compressor, external gate atmost vent, and equal length mani. quick building turbo power for a nice torquey motor and ill be different. my sohc has 140-140-140-137 compression all across and 76k miles. a good cam and valvetrain will help. since hydraulic lifters tend to be heavier and less acurate, do you guys think that going solid will free up atleast some power too?

[allmotorKA]

Unless you plan on running the engine past 7000 RPMs, I'm not convinced about going with solid lifters. Sure, there won't be any loss of lift that you might see with hydraulic lifters but solid lifters can loose duration due to the ever present lash.

And really, how much gain over hydraulic lifters can solid lifters have with an engine that only revs to 7000 rpms? Will it be worth all of the hassels of adjusting lash every time the lifter wears a little? Has anyone here used solid lifters on the KA? If so, how often did you have to adjust them and what hp gains if any did you see?

[tastyratz]

thats what I was curious about. how often do the dohc people adjust their solid lifters? I also seen this as beneficial because I wouldnt have to do machine work and life would be a little bit easier from that. Also I was planning on running the car to probabbly 72-7300 rpm or so with this being the only valvetrain mod and didnt think it would be an issue

[trixxxr4_kids]

lifters? are you SOHC or do you have a pushrod setup ? last i remember it was cams, then shims, then springs, then valves

[abcdefg123]

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[Salvarath]

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You really bumped a nine year old thread? With useless information in it. Just go over to ka-t, all the information you could want about the KA engine is over there. I have a single cam too and am building my ms3 setup for it now.