Originally Posted by
elitist
Not saying they suck by perfomance standards, the GTIR had them built into the head, a RWD sr you are adding aftermarket parts there is a difference.
Wait wait wait, you want to tell me a screw in pivot threaded into a small hole, and a solid pivot dropped into a larger hole, both shimmed the exact same way, are somehow different ?
Originally Posted by
elitist
What I'm saying is they are noisy and a pain to install and on a car that will probably never see 300whp they are completely worthless, are gonna cost him a buncha money, and are gonna make the car sound like a POS. Shimming them sucks and from how it sounds I guarantee you there would be a post soon after this asking why his rockers are eating up his cams if he tried to install solid lifters.
If you cant handle the install, dont do it, noisy ? barely any sort of highly brain shaking noise, especially compared to what most people have going on already. Worthless on a car sub 300 whp ? Go figure nissan saw it fit to do it at much lower HP than that, it has to do with RPM, not HP, half of the people around want to go drift spending plenty of time in high rshared_pm range, clutch kicking and bouncing off their revlimiters, a few hundred $$ is well worth it for having a valvetrain that cannot collapse a lifter.
Weird, i seem to see all these stories from gtir owners, dispappearing rockers, and micro sized cams from their solids getting hungry and eating them
