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Bad Lifter?



cant really tell from the video but it is possible. it seems to be happening more and more often lately with people.
 
You have to remove the fuel rails, supercharger/tb, lower intake manifold and the valve guides.

It could be a bad lifter if it is change it ASAP. Don't beat on the car or anything either...probably not good for it if you did. It could also be a loose rocker bolt. Check those too...pull off the valve covers and see...if you can move the rocker with your fingers than you need to get a new TTY (Torque To Yield) Bolt from a dealer...
 
well my problem is in the bottom end .... FML just spent 4000 on this motor and its bad and i have to pay out of pocket to get the cam taken out and put in to the next motor but lifters arent bad just gotta get to the LIM which would be the hardest part, from that point take out the rods and just pull it out
 
Yeah...sorry to be up front about it but if you got a cam you HAVE TO TUNE. Nothing around that. Which is the reason you have to buy another motor...sucks for sure man, but something good will come out of it ;)
 


what happened to it and why does a bottom end cost you $4000? send me $4000 and ill build you the meanest engine youll ever see in a grand prix. lol

you shouldnt pay more than $400 for a block...
 
thanks for the tip. i come home from iraq next week for 2 weeks and hopefully i cant get that figured out. i have lots of other questions. like is a borla system good for the 3.8 or should i get something else? how small of a pulley can i get without having to change a bunch of parts in the engine? thanks for the help
 
bluegtp91 said:
Yeah...sorry to be up front about it but if you got a cam you HAVE TO TUNE. Nothing around that. Which is the reason you have to buy another motor...sucks for sure man, but something good will come out of it ;)
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i did get a tune as said in my first post and there was no beating on my car before or after idk wtf happened
 
Bio248 said:
what happened to it and why does a bottom end cost you $4000? send me $4000 and ill build you the meanest engine youll ever see in a grand prix. lol

you shouldnt pay more than $400 for a block...
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i bought a whole engine for 1500 plus 300 for labor for the cam plus labor fml
 
dont pay someone to install a motor for you. take the time to do it on your own. youll learn a lot and youll then be able to fix everything on your car confidently.
 


djbounce said:
thanks for the tip. i come home from iraq next week for 2 weeks and hopefully i cant get that figured out. i have lots of other questions. like is a borla system good for the 3.8 or should i get something else? how small of a pulley can i get without having to change a bunch of parts in the engine? thanks for the help
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catbacks do nothing for performance only sound. so yes, if youre looking for a good exhaust note borla is where it is at.

you cannot go smaller with your supercharger pulley without a bunch of other flow mods to compensate. the key to making power with these cars is to not make more boost, but to stay at the same level. therefore, when you add flow mods you lose boost, so you put on a smaller pulley so you can get back to where you were before.
 
Bio248 said:
dont pay someone to install a motor for you. take the time to do it on your own. youll learn a lot and youll then be able to fix everything on your car confidently.
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if i could i would.... just lost my garage cause i moved, dont have the necessary resources lack of tools and such
 
Bio248 said:
catbacks do nothing for performance only sound. so yes, if youre looking for a good exhaust note borla is where it is at.

you cannot go smaller with your supercharger pulley without a bunch of other flow mods to compensate. the key to making power with these cars is to not make more boost, but to stay at the same level. therefore, when you add flow mods you lose boost, so you put on a smaller pulley so you can get back to where you were before.
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so i am going to have to go with headers? will i be able to go with true dual or have to go with the single like it is? i really want to learn what i can do to my car so i dont just put some stuff on and hope it works.
 
no one has done a true dual exhaust, but i dont think there is a whole lot of reasons to since it probably wont make any more power from it, it would be hard to run two sets of piping all the way back, and it would probably still sound like crap.

with the headers that are on the market, i dont think anyone has ever made enough power to actually say the headers are what were holding them up.
 
May not be a lifter....
Check your valve springs now!!!!!
Just did a friends stock 3.8 that was running very rough, shaking hard at idle and smoothed out as RPM increased under load (driving).

Plugs, wires, timing....all good
Compression good, all 6 within 8lbs.

Troubleshooting found a broken spring on the #5 cyl. The spring was broken put the keepers stayed in place.
The valve did not drop into the cylinder......saved the piston from being demoed.
Very lucky....

Pain in the ass to pull the valve covers, but the compresson check did not show the broken spring because the rising piston shut the valve....

fred
 


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