Re: Valve lifter noise?
Posted: Tue Dec 01, 2009 11:39 pmturbokcar wrote:My turbo engine has pressed in piston pins. When I had the machine work done on my engine,
[bored, honed, decked, balanced, and rods re sized] he had to press the pins in. My pistons are not stock though. And I put a roller cam and roller lifters in the engine and it still makes noise. I think Butch is correct it's a cheap car, so they don't do much to keep it quiet.
There is a guy at the Shelby Dodge meeting that has an Omni GLH, and it's a noisy, smell beast, I thought it had all kinds of issues, then Butch told me it's an 11 second car. And I don't think I will race him for pinks.
You're right in your statement 'TURBOCARGUY' that is the cheaper built turbo engine. I had dismissed that from my mind. You should have installed the heavy duty rods with wrist pin bushings and a set of pistons to match while you were at it. Why build a performance engine with whimpy connecting rods? However the REAL performance turbo 2.2L engines have floating wrist pins. So now you all know that there are 2 classes of 2.2L turbo engines, the ordinary run-of-the-mill ones and the performance ones. The good engines also have forged cranks instead of cast cranks.
Now that is not to say that any of the lighter stuff is bad, after all even the 2.5L engines use the lightweight parts even in the turbo engines.