You're a complete idiot, and show it more with each post, .10 and .20 thicker than they need to be for solid lifters ?
Yet you need a different shim, and guide for each different head, specific to the actual piece you're working on, which comes down to the valvejob on the head.
Hard to shim and people screwing it up so bad that they break cam caps you're kidding me ? Maybe if youre an idiot and try to claim things like a factory screw in pivot somehow results in something different than a drop in tomei pivot. Oh yeah please tell us more about this, while your on the subject, please enlighten us more on your "jdm frame rails are stronger than usdm" bullshit too.
I've dealt with shimming them in both rwd sr heads, and gtir factory setup, and have enough sense not to make moronic statements like you, claim whatever eleventy billion horsepower bullshit your customer brought in all you want, at the end of the day you were full of shit at the comment about the solids being somehow "different" because of drop in pivots vs. screw in pivots.
Cool, you've seen some cars where someone shouldnt have been screwing around under the hood, and screwed up with solids, sweet countless people have screwed up SR's and rodknocked them, the difference, i'm not claiming SR's are insta-rodknock, and you're an idiot claiming solids are magically going to break cam caps.
Originally Posted by
elitist
Apparently you've never installed solid lifters it would seem? If the lifters aren't shimmed correctly and tolerences are to tight then you will eat up your cams. My shop is a Tomei prodealer so we deal with probably about 1000 times more feedback and people fucking up than you do. The factory shims are something like between .10 and .20 thicker than they need to be for solid lifters, that being the case I have seen more people than I can count inproperly shim them thus the rocker eats into the cams, I have even seen cams snap and literally melt into the cam cap do to this. So giving someone advise that clearly doesn't know SR's very well advise to install solid lifters, which yes, are noisy (I'm sorry I know most s13 owners try and make their car feel as shitty as possible but I'm not one of them), are a pain to shim correctly, and are completely unnecessary is pretty dumb. I know in your little garage wanna be shop thing you think you know all, but ignorant advise is what makes people talk shit about s13 owners making their cars shittier by doing stupid things. So how many 1000 hp cars do you build a month? I've built 2 in the last month.
On a side note I've seen solid lifters throw a rocker arm out before, so no solid lifters don't guarantee that you don't throw a rocker.